Army Personnel Office (Wehrmacht)

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The Army Personnel Office (HPA; Heeres Personal Amt, Heerespersonalamt or Heeres Personalamt) was a German military agency formed in 1920 and charged with the personnel matters of all officers and cadets of the army of the Reichswehr and later the Wehrmacht . With increased recruitment of officers in 1935 and especially in the Second World War, it was given multiple new tasks. The growing demands led to numerous organisational changes.

Abteilung P 1: Planning human resources, personnel management of the officers
Abteilung P 2: Disciplinary matters of the officers
Abteilung P 3: Staffing of the General Staff officers; transferred to the central department of the General Staff of the Army in 1935
Abteilung P 4: Personnel management of the officers of the special careers; was renamed P 3 on 1 April 1939
Abteilung P 5: Orders and decorations (Orden und Ehrenzeichen) department

Chiefs of the Heerespersonalamt

No.	Chief	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1	Braun, JohannGeneralleutnant Johann von Braun [ de ] (1867–1938)	7 December 1918	1 April 1922	3 years, 115 days
2	Heye, WilhelmGeneralleutnant Wilhelm Heye (1869–1947)	1 April 1922	1 October 1923	1 year, 183 days
3	Reinicke, HermannGeneralmajor Hermann Reinicke [ de ] (1870–1945)	1 October 1923	1 February 1927	3 years, 123 days
4	Stülpnagel, JoachimOberst Joachim von Stülpnagel [ de ] (1880–1968)	1 February 1927	1 October 1929	2 years, 242 days
5	Hammerstein, GüntherOberst Günther von Hammerstein-Equord [ de ] (1877–1965)	1 October 1929	1 November 1930	1 year, 31 days
6	Bussche, ErichGeneralleutnant Erich von dem Bussche-Ippenburg [ de ] (1878–1957)	1 November 1930	1 October 1933	2 years, 334 days
7	Schwedler, ViktorOberst Viktor von Schwedler (1885–1954)	1 October 1933	4 February 1938	4 years, 126 days
8	Keitel, BodewinGeneralmajor Bodewin Keitel (1888–1953)	4 February 1938	1 October 1942	4 years, 239 days
9	Schmundt, RudolfGeneralmajor Rudolf Schmundt (1896–1944)	1 October 1942	1 October 1944 †	2 years, 0 days
10	Burgdorf, WilhelmGeneral der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895–1945)	12 October 1944	2 May 1945 †	202 days

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References

Citations

↑ Stone 2009, p. 245.

Bibliography

Stone, David (2009). Hitler's Army, 1939–1945: The Men, Machines and Organization. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press. ISBN 978-0-7603-3750-9.

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[1] Stone 2009, p. 245.

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