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|branch=Abwehr |serviceyears= |rank=Generalmajor |commands= |unit= |battles= |awards= |laterwork= }} Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German Army general who was also a leading figure of the German resistance from 1938 to 1943. As deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau (''Abwehr''), Oster was in a strong position to conduct resistance operations under the guise of intelligence work; he was dismissed for helping Jews to avoid arrest. After the failed July Plot on Hitler’s life, the Gestapo seized the diaries of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the ''Abwehr'', in which Oster’s anti-Nazi activities were revealed. In April 1945, he was hanged with Canaris and Dietrich Bonhoeffer at Flossenbürg concentration camp. ==Early career== He was born in Dresden, Saxony in 1887, the son of an Alsatian pastor of the French Protestant Church.〔(Biography of Hans Oster ), deutsche-biographie.de; accessed 28 September 2015. 〕 He entered the artillery in 1907. In World War I, he served on the Western Front until 1916, when he was appointed as captain to the German General Staff. After the war, he was thought of well enough to be kept in the reduced ''Reichswehr'', whose officer corps was limited to 4,000 by the Treaty of Versailles. However, he had to resign from the army in 1932, when he got into trouble because of an indiscretion during the carnival in the demilitarised zone of the Rhineland, where ''Reichswehr'' officers were prohibited. He soon found a job in a new organisation which Hermann Göring set up under the Prussian police. He transferred to the ''Abwehr'' in October 1933. It was in this connection that he met future conspirators Hans Bernd Gisevius and Arthur Nebe, who were then working in the ''Gestapo''. Oster also became a close confidant of Admiral Canaris.〔Michael Balfour, ''Withstanding Hitler'', pp. 160-161〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Oster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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