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Hübner, Alois

Date of birth:
September 19th, 1913 (Jagstberg - Kreis Künzelsau)
Date of death:
September 23rd, 1944 (Maillynear Nomeny - France)
Buried on:
German War Cemetery Dahn
Plot: 4. Row: 4. Grave: 1973.
Nationality:
German

Biography

Oberleutnant Alois Hübner served in the 1. Kompanie/Grenz-Infanterie-Regiment 125 in Trier in 1938-39 with which he took part in many attacks against the French Maginotline.
10 May 1940 : he took part in a succesful attack in Ermerich, southwards of Saarbrücken this action allowed the breakthrough of all his Bataillon o the IR.125.
Hübner made many prisonners alone in the street fightings in the Vosges/Vogesen region, 3 officers and 40 men.
In April 1941 he took part in the fightings at the Metaxasline during the campaign in the Balkans and destroyed a group of Tito partisans took prisonner the staff of a bataillon and his headquarters company.
Beginning 1942 he led a Jagdkommando on Kreta and took prisonner 17 British elite soldiers and avoided sabotage actions againts airfields. In October 1942, he was involved in the campaing in Africa where his Regiment was renamed Panzergrenadier-Regiment 125 and took part in the close-combat fightings in the El Alamein-Stellung as PaK-Richtschütze.
1943 : he was at the Mareth-Line in the South of Tunesia where he took an important Hill in March 1943.
15 July 1943 : after the destruction of the PGR.125 he was in Sicilia with the newly reformed Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 129 - 15. Pz-Gren.-Div.
23rd October 1943 : proposed for the Ritterkreuz, awarded the 5th December 1943. 14th December 1943 : promoted Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel.
Near Castel Volturno as Stoßtruppführer he with his 3 groups stopped a British attack in close combat avoiding a breaktrough of the German lines.
Alois Hübner was KIA the 23rd September 1944 on the Western Front during the Operation Market Garden and most probably during the fightings around Metz.
He was married with Gretel and had one child.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Unit:
1. Kompanie, I. Bataillon, Panzergrenadier-Regiment 125, 164. leichte Afrika-Division, Heer
Awarded on:
January 21st, 1943
Soldbuch gives 27.01.1943
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
May 17th, 1940
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
July 1st, 1940
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
July 12th, 1940
Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
July 16th, 1940
Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
February 27th, 1942
Cross to the Order for Bravery 2nd Class
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
December 1st, 1942
Medaglia commemorativa della campagna italo-tedesca in Africa
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
March 8th, 1943
Ärmelband Afrika
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1943
Nahkampfspange in Bronze
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Unit:
I./ Pz-Gren.Rgt.125
Awarded on:
December 5th, 1943
Ordonnanz-Offizier
Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1940
Deutsches Schutzwall-Ehrenzeichen

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