Hugo Gutmann

Hugo Gutmann later known as Henry G. Grant was a GermanJewish veteran of World War I who is famously known as one of Adolf Hitlers superior officers during the war, as well as the man responsible for recommending Hitler for the award of the Iron Cross, First Class.

Gutmann was born onNovember 1880 in Nuremberg. In 1902, Gutmann joined the Bavarian Army and had risen to the rank of highest ranking NCO by 1904, when he was transferred to the reserves. When World War I began in 1914, Gutmann was recalled and soon after he joined a unit known as the List Regiment. OnApril 1915, he was promoted to Lieutenant , and appointed as a company commander and acting adjutant for the Regiments artillery battalion.

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