The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of General Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger

Heusinger, Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst

General

* 4th of August 1897

† 30th of November 1982

Promotions

1939-04-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-08-01 Colonel
1942-01-01 Major-General
1943-01-01 Lieutenant-General
1955-11-01 Lieutenant-General (Bundeswehr)
1957-06-14 General (Bundeswehr)

Service

1937-08-01 1940-10-15 General Staff Officer, 1st Section (Operations), Army General Staff
1940-10-15 1944-06-10 Chief of Operations Section, Army General Staff
1944-06-10 1944-07-20 Acting Chief of the Army General Staff
1944-07-20 1944-07-21 Wounded and hospitalised
1944-07-21 1944-07-22 Unemployed
1944-07-22 1944-10-XX Arrested
1944-10-XX Released
1944-10-XX 1945-03-25 Unemployed
1945-03-25 1945-05-XX Chief of Armed Forces Mapping Affairs, Armed Forces High Command OKW
1945-05-XX 1945-05-08 General for Special Employment to the General Inspector of Panzer Troops, Replacement Army
1945-05-08 1947-06-30 Prisoner of War
1947-06-30 Released
1955-11-01 Joins the Bundeswehr
1955-11-22 1957-02-27 Chairman of Military Operations Directives, Federal Ministry of Defence
1957-02-28 1957-05-31 Director of Department IV (Armed Forces), Federal Ministry of Defence
1957-06-01 1961-03-31 Inspector-General of the Bundeswehr
1961-04-01 1964-03-31 Chairman of the Standing Military Committee, NATO, Washington
1964-03-31 Retired
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/302067