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Portrait of General of Mountain Troops Franz Boehme

Boehme, Franz

General of Mountain Troops

* 15th of April 1885

† 29th of December 1947

Promotions

1921-07-08 Lieutenant-Colonel (Titel)(Austrian Army)
1926-12-30 Lieutenant-Colonel (Austrian Army)
1929-09-25 Colonel (Austrian Army)
1935-12-24 Major-General (Austrian Army)
1939-06-01 Lieutenant-General
1940-08-01 General of Infantry
1944-03-23 General of Mountain Troops

Service

1921-04-16 1922-12-01 Temporary Chief of Staff, 3rd Brigade Command (Austrian Army)
1922-12-01 1923-12-01 Attached to 5th Brigade Command (Austrian Army)
1923-12-01 1927-01-01 Temporary Chief of Staff, 5th Brigade Command (Austrian Army)
1927-01-01 1930-02-01 Chief of Staff, 5th Brigade Command (Austrian Army)
1930-02-01 1931-02-01 Director of Army Administration Office Eisenstadt (Austrian Army)
1931-02-01 1932-09-01 Chief of Staff, 3rd Brigade Command (Austrian Army)
1932-09-01 1933-12-01 Instructor at the Military Test Commission for Staff Officers (Austrian Army)
1933-12-01 1934-07-29 Attached to the Federal Ministry for the Army (Austrian Army)
1934-07-29 1935-01-01 Attached to the Federal Ministry for National Defence (Austrian Army)
1935-01-01 1935-06-01 Head of Department 1/a, Federal Ministry for National Defence (Austrian Army)
1935-06-01 1938-03-16 Head of Signals Department, Federal Ministry for National Defence (Austrian Army)
1938-03-02 1938-03-16 Chief of the General Staff (Austrian Army)
1938-03-15 Transferred to the German Army
1938-03-16 1938-07-01 Chief of 3rd Section, Federal Ministry for National Defence
1938-07-01 1938-08-01 Attached to 23rd Infantry Division
1938-08-01 1938-11-10 Officer for Special Employment with the Commander in Chief of the Army
1938-11-10 1939-07-01 Infantry Commander 23
1939-07-01 1940-07-19 General Officer Commanding 30th Infantry Division
1939-07-19 1940-06-05 General Officer Commanding 32nd Infantry Division [Poland - France]
1939-09-05 1939-09-28 Acting General Officer Commanding II Corps [Poland]
1940-06-05 1940-06-15 Acting General Officer Commanding XXXXIII Corps
1940-06-15 1940-11-01 Acting General Officer Commanding XVIII Corps
1940-11-01 1943-12-01 General Officer Commanding XVIII Mountain Corps [Greece - Serbia - Finland]
1941-09-16 1941-12-02 Military Commander Serbia
1943-01-01 1944-06-24 General Officer Commanding Military District XVIII
1944-06-24 1944-07-15 Acting General Officer Commanding 2nd Panzer Army [Eastern Front]
1944-07-15 1944-07-18 Injured in an air crash and hospitalised
1944-07-18 1945-11-08 Unemployed
1945-01-08 1945-05-09 Commander in Chief Norway
1945-01-08 1945-05-09 General Officer Commanding 20th Mountain Army [Norway]
1945-05-09 1947-05-29 Prisoner of War
1947-05-29 Committed suicide
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/299430