Captain wilm hosenfeld biography

Translation of the article into English

Wilm (Wilhelm) Hosenfeld was born on May 2, 1895 in Mackenzell, in the province of Hessen-Nassau, into a Catholic family. He finished his teaching studies a week after the outbreak of World War I, in which he participated as a soldier.

He was discharged after suffering a leg injury at the beginning of 1918.

In 1920 he married Annemarie Krummacher (1898-1972), who came from a Protestant family but converted to Catholicism before marriage. After various posts in different schools, in 1927 he was appointed headmaster of the elementary school in Thalau.

Captain wilm hosenfeld biography wikipedia

He moved there with his wife and two children, Helmut and Anemone; the next three children, Detlev, Jorinde and Uta, were born there. The Hosenfeld family was living in Thalau at the time of Hitler's rise to power in 1933.

Attraction to and differences from National Socialism

Hosenfeld was initially attracted to National Socialism.

He even joined the Nazi party NSDAP in 1935, probably impressed