Erich Hoepner

Erich Hoepner was a German general in World War II. A successful panzer leader, Hoepner was implicated in the failedJuly Plot against Adolf Hitler and executed in 1944.

Hoepner was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg. He joined the German Army as an officer cadet in 1905, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1906 and served as a cavalry officer during World War I, reaching the rank of Rittmeister . He remained in the Reichswehr in the Weimar Republic and reached the rank of general in 1936. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenantgeneral and given command of the XVI Panzer Corps in 1938.

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