The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Franz Wilhelm Karl Geiger

Geiger, Franz Wilhelm Karl

Lieutenant-General

* 19th of December 1894

† 21st of December 1945

Promotions

1938-01-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-08-01 Colonel
1943-08-01 Major-General
1945-03-16 Lieutenant-General

Service

1936-10-06 1938-06-28 Commanding Officer 54th Mountain Pioneer Battalion
1938-06-28 1939-08-26 Commanding Officer Pioneers XVIII
1939-08-26 1941-05-01 Commanding Officer 620th Mountain Pioneer Regiment Staff
1941-05-01 1941-06-15 Unemployed
1941-06-15 1943-08-01 Chief of Section In5, Army High Command OKH
1943-08-01 1943-08-04 Unemployed
1943-08-04 1943-08-21 Attached to the Mountain Infantry School
1943-08-21 1945-01-04 Chief of Special Staff Geiger
1945-01-04 1945-02-23 General of Pioneers, Army Group Upper Rhine
1945-02-23 1945-03-20 Unemployed
1945-03-20 1945-05-08 General Officer Commanding Military Police, Army Group Centre
1945-05-08 1945-XX-XX Prisoner of War
1945-XX-XX Missing
1945-12-21 Proclaimed dead
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/299692