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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Ernst Max Alfred Gause

Gause, Ernst Max Alfred

Lieutenant-General

* 14th of February 1896

† 30th of September 1967

Promotions

1936-10-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1939-04-01 Colonel
1941-06-01 Major-General
1943-04-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1935-10-15 1937-10-12 Chief of Operations (Ia), V Corps
1937-10-12 1938-02-04 Attached to the Wehrmacht Office
1938-02-04 1939-11-01 Attached to the Armed Forces High Command OKW
1939-11-01 1940-06-01 Chief of Staff, X Corps
1940-06-07 1940-10-01 Chief of Demobilisation Section, General Army Office, Army High Command OKH
1940-10-01 1941-01-30 Chief of Staff, XXXVIII Corps
1941-06-01 1941-09-01 German Liaison Officer with the Italian High Command in North Africa
1941-09-01 1942-01-30 Chief of Staff, Panzer Group Africa
1942-01-30 1942-10-01 Chief of Staff, Panzer Army Africa
1942-10-01 1942-12-07 Chief of Staff, German-Italian Panzer Army
1942-12-07 1943-03-01 Unemployed
1943-03-01 1943-05-07 Chief of Staff, Army Group Africa
1943-05-07 1943-05-20 Unemployed
1943-05-20 1943-07-19 General Staff Officer for Special Duties with Work Staff Rommel
1943-07-19 1944-04-15 Chief of Staff, Army Group B
1944-04-15 1944-06-15 Unemployed
1944-06-15 1944-08-05 Chief of Staff, Panzer Group West
1944-08-05 1944-09-10 Chief of Staff, 5th Panzer Army
1944-09-10 1944-09-14 Unemployed
1944-09-14 1944-11-20 Chief of Staff, 6th Panzer Army
1944-11-21 1945-04-05 Unemployed
1945-04-05 1945-05-10 Acting General Officer Commanding II Corps
1945-05-10 1950-07-24 Prisoner of War, Soviet Captivity
1950-07-24 Condemned to 25 years imprisonment by a Soviet Military Court as war criminal
1955-10-10 Released
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/299686