Background
Hausser was born on 7 October 1880 in Brandenburg an der Havel into a Prussian military family and entered the army in 1892
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Hausser was born on 7 October 1880 in Brandenburg an der Havel into a Prussian military family and entered the army in 1892
In 1899, he graduated from a cadet academy and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 155th (7th West Prussian) Infantry Regiment. Hausser graduated from the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin in 1911.
A veteran of World War I, Hausser became a leader in the Stahlhelm (“Steel Helmet”), a right-wing veterans’ organization, in the interwar years. He transferred to the SA (Storm Troopers), the Nazis’ paramilitary organization, after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and soon moved to the SS, the Nazi Party’s elite corps. He helped train and expand the armed SS units that became the nucleus of the Waffen-SS (SS-controlled field armies) in World War II. After commanding Waffen-SS units in France and on the Eastern Front, Hausser was promoted to the SS rank of Oberstgruppenführer (colonel general). In late June 1944, he was given command of the beleaguered Seventh Army, which was being worn down resisting the Allied invasion of Normandy. Hausser was seriously wounded in August during the escape of the Seventh Army from Normandy at Falaise, and he was relieved of his posts near the end of the war. In postwar West Germany, Hausser became the leader of an organization of Waffen-SS veterans.
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