- Source: Army Personnel Office (Wehrmacht)
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.
In October 1942, Major General Rudolf Schmundt became the new head of the HPA. After his death from injuries received during the assassination attempt on Hitler's life of 20 July 1944, General Wilhelm Burgdorf took over the function.
The agency had several departments (Abteilung).
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
See also
Chief of the Luftwaffe Personnel Office (Luftwaffe equivalent)
Chief of the Kriegsmarine Personnel Office (Navy equivalent)
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- Army Norway (Wehrmacht)
- Viktor von Schwedler
- Ranks and insignia of the German Army (1935–1945)
- Uniforms of the German Army (1935–1945)
- Oberkommando des Heeres
- Chief of the Luftwaffe Personnel Office
- Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
