Werner Schmidt-Hammer

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|name=Werner Schmidt-Hammer

|birth_date=26 September 1894

|death_date={{death date and age|1962|1|4|1894|9|26|df=y}}

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|allegiance={{flag|German Empire}}
{{flag|Weimar Republic}}
{{flag|Nazi Germany}}

|branch=Army

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|rank=Generalleutnant

|commands=168. Infanterie-Division
LXXII. Armeekorps

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World War II

Prague Offensive

|awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

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Werner Schmidt-Hammer (26 September 1894 – 4 January 1962) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.

Schmidt-Hammer surrendered to the Red Army in the course of the Soviet Prague Offensive in May 1945. Convicted as a war criminal in the Soviet Union, he was held until October 1955.

Awards and decorations

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 12 September 1944 as Generalleutnant and commander of 168. Infanterie-DivisionFellgiebel 2000, p. 311.

References

=Citations=

=Bibliography=

{{Cite book

|last=Fellgiebel

|first=Walther-Peer

|authorlink=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel

|year=2000

|origyear=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

}}

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before=Generalleutnant Walter Chales de Beaulieu|

after=Generalmajor Carl Anders|

title= Commander of 168. Infanterie-Division|

years=1 December 1943 – 8 September 1944

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