page_title: Erich Hoepner
section_title: Commemoration
hierarchical_section_title: Erich Hoepner / Commemoration
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Berliner Gedenktafel für Erich Hoepner und Henning von Tresckow in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, DeutschlandEnglish: Berlin memorial plaque for Erich Hoepner and Henning von Tresckow in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany "In this building, built in 1895 for the former Royal-Prussian Artillery Testing Commission, worked during WW2 the officers of the Resistance Colonel-General Erich Hoepner and Major-General Henning von Tresckow"
context_page_description: Erich Hoepner was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, he was a Wehrmacht army corps commander at the beginning of the war, leading his troops during the invasion of Poland and the Battle of France.
  Hoepner commanded the 4th Panzer Group on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Units under his command closely cooperated with the Einsatzgruppen and implemented the Commissar Order that directed Wehrmacht troops to summarily execute Red Army political commissars immediately upon capture. Hoepner's Panzer group, along with the 3rd Panzer Group, spearheaded the advance on Moscow in Operation Typhoon, the failed attempt to seize the Soviet capital.
  Dismissed from the Wehrmacht after the failure of the 1941 campaign, Hoepner restored his pension rights through a lawsuit. He was implicated in the failed 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler and executed in 1944.
context_section_description: In 1956, a school in Berlin was named after Hoepner because he had joined the 20 July plot and was executed by the Nazi regime. The school voted to drop the name in 2008. In 2009, the school director attested to the fact that "the name had been controversial from the start and was repeatedly debated".
caption: Memorial plaque for Hoepner and Henning von Tresckow in the Bundeshaus, Berlin.
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