Heinrich Hax

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|caption= Hax in 1928

|nickname=Heinz

|name=Heinrich Georg "Heinz" Hax

|birth_date=24 January 1900

|death_date={{death date and age|1969|9|1|1900|1|24|df=y}}

|birth_place=Berlin, German Empire

|death_place=Koblenz, West Germany

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| allegiance={{flag|German Empire}} (to 1918)
{{flag|Weimar Republic}} (to 1933)
{{flag|Nazi Germany}} (to 1945)
{{flag|West Germany}} (1956–1961)

| branch=Heer
Bundeswehr

| serviceyears=1918–1945
1956–1961

| rank= Generalmajor (Wehrmacht)
Generalmajor (Bundeswehr)

| commands=8. Panzer-Division

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| battles={{hidden

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|World War I

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World War II

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|awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

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| sport = Men's Shooting

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Heinrich Georg "Heinz" Hax (24 January 1900 – 1 September 1969) was a German army general and sportsman.

His sports career was as a German modern pentathlete and sport shooter who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a career army officer and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

Olympic career

In 1928 he finished fifth in the Olympic modern pentathlon.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/heinz-hax-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417221157/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/heinz-hax-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Heinrich Hax Olympic Results |access-date=2012-06-19 |work=sports-reference.com}}

Four years later he competed as sport shooter and won the silver medal in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol event. In 1936 later he won the silver medal in the same event again.

Awards and decorations

Iron Cross (1939)
2nd Class (14 September 1939){{sfn|Thomas|1997|p=257}}
1st Class (31 October 1939){{sfn|Thomas|1997|p=257}}
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Knight's Cross on 8 March 1945 as Oberst and leader of 8. Panzer-Division{{sfn|Scherzer|2007|p=372}}{{sfn|Fellgiebel|2000|p=180}}
(855th) Oak Leaves on 30 April 1945 as Generalmajor and commander of 8. Panzer-Division{{sfn|Scherzer|2007|p=372}}{{sfn|Fellgiebel|2000|p=85}}{{refn|The sequential numbers greater than 843 for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves are unofficial and were assigned by the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients (AKCR) and are therefore denoted in parentheses.{{sfn|Fellgiebel|2000|pp=102–111}}|group="Note"}}

Notes

References

=Citations=

=Bibliography=

{{Cite book

|last=Fellgiebel

|first=Walther-Peer

|year=2000

|orig-date=1986

|title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile

|trans-title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches

|language=German

|location=Friedberg, Germany

|publisher=Podzun-Pallas

|isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6

}}

{{Cite book

|last=Scherzer

|first=Veit

|year=2007

|title=Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives

|trans-title=The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives

|language=German

|location=Jena, Germany

|publisher=Scherzers Militaer-Verlag

|isbn=978-3-938845-17-2

}}