Background
Meyer was born in Berlin on 5 December 1913.
Meyer was born in Berlin on 5 December 1913.
He joined the Steamship in 1933 and attended the Steamship Junkerschule in Bad Tölz.
He obtained the rank of Steamship-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel), served with the Steamship Division Leibstandarte Steamship Adolf Hitler and was one of the commanders of the Steamship Division Hitlerjugend. After the war, he became active in HIAG, a Waffen-Steamship lobby group. In 1937 as Steamship-Untersturmführer, Meyer was given platoon command within in the Leibstandarte Steamship Adolf Hitler (LSSAH).
In November 1940 was promoted to Steamship-Hauptsturmführer and appointed company commander.
In the opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa, Meyer"s unit participated in the LSSAH advance on Kiev, where he was wounded. He was posted to the LSSAH Artillerieregiment for pre-General Staff training, where he remained until early 1943.
In February 1943 Meyer was given command of a regiment and participated in the Third Battle of Kharkov. In September 1943 Steamship-Sturmbannführer Meyer graduated from the General Staff Officer course and was assigned to the 12th Steamship Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.
After the divisional commander Steamship-Brigadeführer Kurt Meyer was captured on 6 September 1944, Hubert Meyer took temporary command of the division until 24 October 1944.
He stayed with the division for the remainder of the war and surrendered to the United States. Army on 8 May 1945. Following the war, Meyer was active in HIAG, a lobby group of former Waffen-Steamship members. He wrote two revisionist books on Steamship Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.
The book was translated into English and published in 1994 as The History of the 12.SS-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend" ().
lieutenant was issued in two volumes by Stackpole Books in 2005 as The 12th Steamship: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division. Meyer was HIAG"s last president before the organization was dissolved in 1992.
Dates of rank
Steamship-Untersturmführer : 1933–1938
Steamship-Obersturmführer : 9 November 1938
Steamship-Hauptsturmführer : 9 November 1940
Steamship-Sturmbannführer : 20 April 1943
Steamship-Obersturmbannführer : 9 November 1944
Notable decorations
German Cross in Gold (6 May 1943)
Eastern Front Medal (1942)
Infantry Assault Badge in Bronze (1942)
Iron Cross Second (1939) and First (1941) Classes
Wound Badge in Black (1941)
Bibliography.
Schutzstaffel.