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Date of birth:

December 5th, 1913 (Berlin/Prussia, German Empire)

Date of death:

November 16th, 2012 (Leverkusen/Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Service number:

266.464 (SS)

Nationality:

German

Hubert Meyer joined the SS in 1933 and rose through the ranks of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, serving in Poland, the Netherlands, France, the Balkans, and the Soviet Union. After being wounded in 1941, he transferred to the division’s artillery unit. Promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1943, he led a regiment at Kharkov and was wounded again. That May, he received the German Cross in Gold.

Later that year, Meyer joined the newly formed 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" as First General Staff Officer (Ia), acting as deputy commander. He briefly led the division after Kurt Meyer’s capture in September 1944, before handing command to Fritz Kraemer in October. He remained Ia until the division's surrender in May 1945. Meyer surrendered to the Americans on May 8, 1945 and was released in 1948.

In the 1950s, Meyer co-founded HIAG, a Waffen-SS veterans’ organization, and served as its federal spokesperson from 1969 to 1992. He defended the group against criticism and maintained its public presence through turbulent years.

Meyer authored a two-volume history of the 12th SS Panzer Division, published by HIAG-linked Munin-Verlag. The work, translated into multiple languages, was noted by historian Peter Lieb as rich in detail but selectively framed despite Meyer’s effort at objectivity.

Promotions:
20.04.1937: SS-Untersturmführer
09.11.1938: SS-Obersturmführer
09.11.1940: SS-Hauptsturmführer
20.04.1943: SS-Sturmbannführer
09.11.1944: SS-Obersturmbannführer

Career:
15.07.1933: entered the SS
04.08.1933: 12./ SS-Rgt. 'Deutschland'
1936: SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz

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• Photo 1: Chris O'Connor
• - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
  - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
  

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