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Martin Hartmann

Finally I found tumblr!! And this is a simple image illustration of my original character. You can see more information about him in “About Martin” section.🫶

[martin-hartmann]

If you ask what sorrow is,

Look where his shadow starts:

A man may serve a dying world

And bury his own heart.

[martin-hartmann]

About Martin Hartmann

-Before you start reading：All the stories of Martin Hartmann are fictional！！He's my original character，so not every thing related to history is correct here.Fogive me because I'm not a History researcher.❤️

Martin Hartmann was born on August 12, 1918, in Leipzig, Sachsen, Deutschland. His father was Johann Hartmann, a publishing editor, and his mother was Clara Hartmann, a piano teacher. Therefore, his hobbies since childhood were listening to classical music (especially Bach) and reading books with strong structural themes.

From 1934 to 1937, he attended the Gymnasium in Leipzig, where he excelled in science, was self-disciplined, and loved "socializing," which in practice was used only for exchanging information. His mathematics teacher once evaluated him as "Sachlich und zuverläßig.".

From 1937 to 1938, the Nazis were preparing war plans. Under the general trend of that time, Martin did not enter university immediately after graduating from high school. Following the trend, he joined the Nazi Party and was later recommended through the local administrative system to enter the SS system.

In 1938, at the age of 20, he officially joined the Allgemeine-SS, not the Waffen-SS. His initial status was only as a candidate member.

From 1939 to early 1941, he was assigned to a regional SS administrative unit, namely transferred to SS-Oberabschnitt Elbe in Dresden. In early 1941, due to the expansion in the early stages of the war, the administrative system expanded rapidly, and serious chaos appeared in personnel, orders, and transfers, which was also the case in SS-Oberabschnitt Elbe. Multiple units were conducting personnel transfers simultaneously, superior orders changed frequently, and conflicts appeared between records of different departments. Martin suspended the execution of conflicting orders and compiled a list of all problematic documents. He manually compared documents from different sources and reorganized the transfer orders chronologically. Subsequently, he submitted the corrected version to his superior, clearly marking the sources of conflict, times of conflict, points of contention, and the logic after correction. The dispatch system regained consistency, and he timely prevented the spread of errors. His superior Udo von Woyrsch did not praise him with exaggeration but said "Außergewöhnlich präzise und belastbar.". The work report was cited by his superior, who wrote a promotion recommendation letter.

From 1942 to 1943, Martin was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer in 1942 and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class (he had never actually been on the battlefield since joining the SS). He was transferred to the administrative agency of SS-Hauptamt in Berlin, which belonged to the core center, not the highest decision-making level. His department was Amt 1 (Zentralamt), specifically responsible for handling administrative instructions and internal communications for the entire SS, managed by Gottlob Berger.

From 1943 to early 1945, after the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, Gottlob Berger frequently drew people directly from the headquarters to the front lines in the later stages of the war. Martin was therefore reassigned to SS-Panzer-Division “Frundsberg”. He followed the unit to participate in the 1944 Battle of Normandy and the Battle of Arnhem, and retreated back into Germany in 1945.

In the spring of 1945, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class for his active performance in the Battle of Normandy and was promoted again to SS-Hauptsturmführer. In mid-to-late April 1945, the U.S. First and Ninth Armies surrounded the remnants of the German forces in the Harz Mountains. Martin was captured. Because he had served in the SS-Hauptamt，the U.S. military considered him to have "intelligence value" and sent him to the “Transberg” interrogation center near Frankfurt.