The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Ernst Karl Wolfgang Fritz Gerke

Gerke, Ernst Karl Wolfgang Fritz

Lieutenant-General

* 7th of June 1890

† 1st of August 1973

Promotions

1934-09-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1937-03-01 Colonel
1941-02-01 Major-General
1943-01-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1930-04-01 1934-10-01 Attached to the Reichswehr Ministry
1934-10-01 1935-10-15 Commanding Officer Signals Battalion Munich (B)
1935-10-15 1938-11-10 Commanding Officer Signals Troops V
1938-11-10 1939-04-03 Liaison Officer of the Chief of Wehrmacht Signals Affairs to the Reich Post Central Office
1939-04-03 1939-09-08 Attached to the the Wehrmacht Plenipotentiary with the Reich Protector in Bohemia & Moravia
1939-09-08 1941-10-10 Chief Signals Officer, 4th Army
1941-10-10 1942-07-09 Chief Signals Officer, Army Group South
1943-03-23 1943-05-10 Chief Signals Officer, Army Group Africa
1943-05-10 1943-06-10 Unemployed
1943-06-10 1943-07-19 Chief Signals Officer, Work Staff Rommel
1943-07-19 1943-11-26 Chief Signals Officer, Army Group B
1943-11-26 1944-01-01 Chief Signals Officer, Special Purpose Army Group
1944-01-01 1945-05-08 Chief Signals Officer, Army Group B
1945-05-09 1947-XX-XX Prisoner of War
1947-XX-XX Released
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/299700