Colonel-General
* 23rd of November 1887
† 18th of January 1971
1928-03-01 | Lieutenant-Colonel (Austrian Army) |
1933-06-21 | Colonel (Austrian Army) |
1939-12-01 | Major-General |
1941-12-01 | Lieutenant-General |
1942-12-01 | General of Infantry |
1944-04-01 | Colonel-General |
1926-02-01 | – | 1933-06-28 | Attached to Brigade Command 4 (Austrian Army) |
1933-06-28 | – | 1935-01-01 | Military Attaché to Great Britain (Austrian Army) |
1933-06-28 | – | 1935-01-01 | Military Attaché to France (Austrian Army) |
1935-01-01 | – | 1936-02-01 | Commanding Officer Light Motorised Brigade(Austrian Army) |
1936-02-01 | Retired | ||
1938-03-16 | Recalled to the German Army | ||
1938-04-01 | – | 1939-10-15 | Chief of Staff, XVII Corps |
1939-10-15 | – | 1939-10-28 | Commanding Officer 7th Infantry Regiment |
1939-10-28 | – | 1940-04-04 | Unemployed |
1940-04-04 | – | 1940-05-08 | Attached to 164th Infantry Division |
1940-05-08 | – | 1940-06-08 | Unemployed |
1940-06-08 | – | 1940-06-20 | Attached to Senior Quartermaster Belgium |
1940-06-20 | – | 1940-10-05 | Acting General Officer Commanding 14th Infantry Division |
1940-10-05 | – | 1942-11-01 | General Officer Commanding 52nd Infantry Division |
1942-11-01 | – | 1942-12-01 | Acting General Officer Commanding XXXV Corps |
1942-12-01 | – | 1943-08-05 | General Officer Commanding XXXV Corps |
1943-08-05 | – | 1943-08-25 | Unemployed |
1943-08-25 | – | 1944-06-24 | General Officer Commanding 2nd Panzer Army [Yugoslavia] |
1944-06-24 | – | 1944-06-28 | Unemployed |
1944-06-28 | – | 1945-01-18 | General Officer Commanding 20th Mountain Army [Finland - Norway] |
1945-01-18 | – | 1945-01-26 | Commander in Chief Army Group Kurland [Eastern Front] |
1945-01-26 | – | 1945-03-11 | Commander in Chief Army Group North [Eastern Front] |
1945-03-11 | – | 1945-03-24 | Commander in Chief Army Group Kurland [Eastern Front] |
1945-03-24 | – | 1945-05-07 | Commander in Chief Army Group South [Eastern Front] |
1945-04-02 | – | 1945-05-07 | Commander in Chief Army Group Ostmark |
1945-05-07 | – | 1948-02-19 | Prisoner of War, US Captivity |
1948-02-19 | Condemned to 20 years of imprisonment by a US Military Tribunal as war criminal | ||
1951-02-01 | Sentence changed to 10 years imprisonment | ||
1951-12-16 | Released |