Johannes Poeppel
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Johannes "Hans" Poeppel was a general in the German Bundeswehr. He served as Inspekteur des Heeres 1979–81.
Poeppel and German chancellor Helmut Schmidt in German Chancellery 1981
Poeppel (r.) at his retirement next to President Karl Carstens in 1981
National Political Institutes of Education were secondary boarding schools in Nazi Germany. They were founded as ‘community education sites’ after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933.
Johannes Poeppel
…des Heeres (Inspector of the Army) 1979–81. Poeppel was born in Schivelbein, Farther Pomerania (today Świdwin, Poland) and passed his Abitur at a Napola institution in Berlin in 1939. That year he passed his Abitur, Poeppel joined the Wehrmacht as an officer cadet and served in the Artillerieregiment 32 throughout…
Students attending a physics lesson in a Napola school
Students at the entrance of NPEA Vienna-Theresianum (now Theresianum) in Vienna, 1940