The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Friedrich Bayer

Bayer, Friedrich

Lieutenant-General

* 1st of November 1887

† 5th of August 1953

Promotions

1933-04-01 Lieutenant-Colonel (Police)
1934-04-20 Colonel (Police)
1936-03-16 Colonel
1938-10-01 Major-General
1940-09-14 Lieutenant-General

Service

1936-03-16 Transferred to the Army
1936-03-16 1936-10-06 Commanding Officer 78th Infantry Regiment
1936-10-06 1939-10-19 Commanding Officer 77th Infantry Regiment
1939-10-19 1939-10-20 General Officer Commanding Replacement Troops II, Military District II
1939-10-20 1940-04-25 General Officer Commanding Division 182
1940-04-25 1940-06-08 Unemployed
1940-06-08 1940-07-01 Senior Field Commandant 669
1940-07-01 1940-07-25 Unemployed
1940-07-25 1941-03-15 Commandant of Strasbourg
1941-03-15 1941-12-08 General Officer Commanding 281st Security Division
1941-12-08 1942-02-18 Acting General Officer Commanding 122nd Infantry Division
1942-02-18 1942-04-15 Unemployed
1942-04-15 1942-09-27 General Officer Commanding 217th Infantry Division
1942-09-27 1943-10-19 General Officer Commanding 347th Infantry Division
1943-10-19 1943-11-20 Unemployed
1943-11-20 1944-06-15 General Officer Commanding Division 408
1944-06-15 1944-09-11 General Officer Commanding 153rd Field Training Division
1944-09-11 1949-09-28 Prisoner of War, Soviet Captivity
1949-09-28 Condemned to 25 years imprisonment by a Soviet Military Court as war criminal
1953-08-05 Died in prison
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/301521