Background
Hans Christian Schulze was born in Schwarzenbeck on the 15 July 1893.
Hans Christian Schulze was born in Schwarzenbeck on the 15 July 1893.
In 1912 he joined the army high school at Metz as a Fahnenjunker (Officer Candidate) and upon graduation was made a Leutnant in the Imperial German Army. In August 1914, Hans Christian Schulze now a platoon commander was sent to the front. After the war he joined the national police force and was stationed in Hamburg as a section commander, until 1935 when he joined the 47th Infantry Regiment as the Regimental Major and was promoted to Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) before returning to the police force.
I
In September 1939, Schulze was given command of the 2nd Polizei Schützen Regiment (Infantry), which was the divisional reserve during the Battle of France and stationed on the Luxembourg border.
In June 1940, the division advanced onto the Aisne Canal. Schulze and his Regiment were involved in the fighting at the Forest of Argonne.
From August 1940 until June 1941 Schulze and the rest of the Division were stationed as an occupying force in the Paris region. In June 1941 the division was moved to the Eastern Front to take part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.
They were part of the Army Group North which advanced througth the Baltic States towards Leningrad.
Schulze was awarded the Knight"s Cross in September 1941. In the advance towards Leningrad, Schulze was seriously wounded on 13 September 1941, and died of his wounds. He was posthumously promoted to Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of Polizei.