Ernst Hammer

{{Infobox military person

| name = Dipl.-Ing. Ernst Hammer

| birth_date = 20 October 1884

| death_date = {{death date and age|1957|12|2|1884|10|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = Falkenau an der Eger, Egerland, Austria-Hungary

| death_place = Vienna, Austria

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| allegiance = {{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}} Austria-Hungary (to 1918)
{{flagicon|Austria}} Austrian Republic (to 1938)
{{flag|Nazi Germany}}

| branch = Army

| serviceyears = 1903–1945

| rank = Generalleutnant

| commands = 75. Infanterie-Division
Division Nr. 190
190. Infanterie-Division

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• World War I
• World War II
• Battle of France
• Operation Barbarossa
• Battle of Kiev
• Battle of Voronezh
• Operation Market Garden
• Battle of the Reichswald
• Operation Varsity

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| awards = Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

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Ernst Hammer (20 October 1884 – 2 December 1957) was a German-Austrian officer of four armies since 1 October 1903, entering as a one-year volunteer.[http://www.geocities.ws/orion47.geo/WEHRMACHT/HEER/Generalleutnant/HAMMER_ERNST.html Generalleutnant Ing. Ernst Hammer] He was Oberleutnant of the Common Army, Hauptmann of the k.u.k. Armee, Generalmajor of the Bundesheer (transferred to the German Army 15 March 1938), Generalleutnant of the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. As commander of the 75th Infantry Division, he ordered his soldiers to shoot female Soviet POWs on the spot.{{cite book |last=Römer |first=Felix |chapter=Gewaltsame Geschlechterordnung. Wehrmacht und >Flintenweiber< an der Ostfront 1941/42 |title=Soldatinnen. Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute| editor1-first=Klaus| editor1-last=Latzel| editor2-first=Franka| editor2-last=Maubach| editor3-first=Silke| editor3-last=Satjukow |url= |location=Paderborn |publisher=Ferdinand Schöningh |page=336| date=2011 |isbn=| language=de}}