Hampont


Hampont is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

History

SS-ObergruppenfĂĽhrer Theodor Eicke, second commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, was born here in 1892.
The town was formally known by the German name Hudingen between 1871 and 1918 and HĂĽdingen between 1940 and 1944.