The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Voldemars Iokhan Skaistlauks

Skaistlauks, Voldemars Iokhan

Major-General

* 6th of September 1892

† 9th of October 1972

(Вольдемар Йохан Скайстлаукс)

(Voldemārs Johans Šēnfelds)

Promotions

1922-XX-XX Lieutenant-Colonel ((Latvian Army)
1925-06-22 Colonel (Latvian Army)
1940-08-02 General (Latvian Army)
1940-12-29 Major-General
1943-04-04 Waffen Standartführer (Waffen SS)
1944-11-09 Waffen Oberführer (Waffen SS)

Service

1922-XX-XX 1928-11-XX Chief of Staff, Artillery Inspectorate, Latvian Army
1928-11-XX 1932-12-XX Commanding Officer Artillery, Regiment Vidzeme, Latvian Army
1932-12-XX 1935-01-XX Chief of Staff, Artillery Inspectorate, Latvian Army
1935-01-XX 1940-08-XX Commanding Officer Artillery, Regiment Vidzeme, Latvian Army
1940-08-XX 1940-09-27 Deputy Commanding Officer 1st Division Kurzeme, Latvian Army
1940-09-27 Transferred from the Latvian Army
1940-09-XX 1941-01-22 Commanding Officer Artillery, XXIV Rifle Corps
1941-01-22 Retired
1943-04-04 Joins the Waffen SS
1943-04-04 1944-12-XX Commanding Officer Artillery, 15th SS Grenadier Division
1944-12-XX Wounded
1945-XX-XX 1946-XX-XX Prisoner of War