The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Hermann Boettcher

Boettcher, Hermann

Lieutenant-General

* 10th of May 1884

† 20th of July 1969

Promotions

1932-02-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1934-04-01 Colonel
1937-08-01 Major-General
1939-06-01 Honorary Lieutenant-General
1939-11-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1931-02-01 1933-05-01 Commanding Officer 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment
1933-05-01 1933-08-01 Attached to 18th Infantry Regiment
1933-08-01 1934-10-01 Commanding Officer 18th Infantry Regiment
1934-10-01 1935-10-15 Commanding Officer Infantry Regiment Görlitz
1935-10-15 1938-11-10 Commanding Officer 30th Infantry Regiment
1935-11-10 1939-08-26 General Officer Commanding Landwehr Hannover
1939-08-26 1940-09-08 General Officer Commanding 216th Infantry Division
1940-09-08 1940-11-10 Unemployed
1940-11-10 1942-01-10 General Officer Commanding Officer Division 148
1942-01-10 1942-04-02 General Officer Commanding Field Replacement Division D
1942-04-02 1943-04-01 General Officer Commanding 148th Reserve Division
1943-04-01 1943-05-07 Unemployed
1943-05-07 1944-09-05 General Officer Commanding Army Rear Area 590
1944-09-05 1944-09-20 Unemployed
1944-09-20 1944-11-10 General for Special Employment, Military District X
1944-11-10 1944-12-06 Unemployed
1944-12-06 1945-01-19 General for Special Employment, Military District VIII
1945-01-19 1945-05-08 Commandant of Glatz
1945-05-08 1949-09-17 Prisoner of War, Soviet Captivity
1949-09-27 Condemned to 25 years imprisonment by a Soviet Military Court as war criminal
1955-10-06 Released