The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Bernhard Alexander Goeschen

Goeschen, Bernhard Alexander

Lieutenant-General

* 22nd of October 1884

† 7th of April 1970

Promotions

1933-12-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1935-10-01 Colonel
1937-04-01 Colonel (Reserve)
1941-06-01 Colonel
1941-08-01 Major-General
1943-08-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1934-03-01 1937-04-01 Commanding Officer 2nd Mounted Regiment
1937-04-01 1942-02-10 Commanding Officer Military District Remount School XIII, Bamberg
1942-02-10 1942-08-12 Unemployed
1942-08-12 1943-01-01 Acting General Officer Commanding 213rd Security Division
1943-01-01 1944-08-20 General Officer Commanding 213rd Security Division
1944-08-20 1944-10-15 General Officer Commanding Army Rear Area 550
1945-03-01 1945-03-25 General Officer Commanding Special Purpose Division Staff 391
1945-03-25 1945-05-08 General Officer Commanding 213rd Security Division
1945-05-08 1948-10-28 Prisoner of War, Soviet Captivity
1948-10-28 Condemned to 25 years imprisonment by a Soviet Military Court as war criminal
1955-10-11 Released
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/299726