{{Short description|German general in World War II}} {{use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox military person | name = Alexander von Hartmann | birth_date = 11 December 1890 | death_date = {{death date and age|1943|1|26|1890|12|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Berlin, German Empire | death_place = Stalingrad, Soviet Union | image = | caption = | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|German Empire}}<br />{{flag|Weimar Republic}}<br />{{flag|Nazi Germany}} | branch = Army | service_years = <!--- 1910–43 ---> | rank = General der Infanterie (Posthumously) | commands = 71st Infantry Division | unit = | battles = <!--- World War I World War II Battle of France * Operation Barbarossa * Battle of Kiev (1941) * Second Battle of Kharkov-->

Battle of Stalingrad{{KIA}} | awards = Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross | other_work = }}

'''Alexander von Hartmann''' (11 December 1890 – 26 January 1943) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 71st Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Hartmann was killed on 26 January 1943 during the Battle of Stalingrad and was posthumously promoted to General of the Infantry.

Before his death Hartmann stated, "I intend to go to my infantry in the front line...I will seek death among their ranks. Captivity for a general is dishonourable." He was killed instantly when he was shot in the head while standing upright on the railway embankment firing "shot after shot from his rifle."{{sfn|Adam|Ruhle|2015|pp=180–182, 195, 198}}

==Awards and decorations== <!--- * Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class & 1st Class * Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class & 1st Class --> * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 8 October 1942 as ''Generalleutnant'' and commander of 71. Infanterie-Division{{sfn|Fellgiebel|2000|p=178}}

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===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} *{{Cite book| title = With Paulus at Stalingrad | last1 = Adam | first1 = Wilhelm | last2 = Ruhle | first2 = Otto | translator = Tony Le Tissier | year = 2015 | publisher = Pen and Sword Books | pages = 180–182, 195, 198 | ISBN = 9781473833869 }} *{{Cite book| title = Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile | trans-title = The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches | last = Fellgiebel | first = Walther-Peer | year = 2000 | author-link = Walther-Peer Fellgiebel | orig-year = First published 1986 | publisher = Podzun-Pallas | location = Friedberg, Germany | language = de | isbn = 978-3-7909-0284-6 }} {{refend}}

{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box | before=General der Infanterie Friedrich Herrlein | after=Generalmajor Fritz Roske | title= Commander of 71. Infanterie-Division | years=28 March 1941 – 26 January 1943 }} {{s-end}}

{{Knight's Cross recipients of the 71st ID}} {{Subject bar | portal1=Biography }}

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