General of Infantry
* 4th of March 1898
† 1st of May 1945
| 1939-02-01 | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 1940-10-01 | Colonel |
| 1942-02-01 | Major-General |
| 1943-04-01 | Lieutenant-General |
| 1944-08-01 | General of Infantry |
| 1938-10-01 | – | 1939-09-19 | Chief of Army Education Section, Army General Staff, Army High Command OKH |
| 1939-09-20 | – | 1939-11-08 | Attached to the German Embassy in Moscow |
| 1939-11-08 | – | 1939-12-15 | Unemployed |
| 1939-12-15 | – | 1940-07-10 | Chief of Staff, VII Corps |
| 1940-10-01 | – | 1941-06-22 | Assistant Military Attaché to Soviet Union |
| 1941-03-17 | – | 1941-05-08 | Acting Military Attaché to Soviet Union |
| 1941-06-22 | – | 1942-01-12 | Attached to the Army High Command OKH |
| 1942-01-14 | – | 1943-01-30 | Chief of Staff 9th Army, Eastern Front |
| 1943-02-01 | – | 1943-02-14 | Acting General Officer Commanding 253rd Infantry Division |
| 1943-02-14 | – | 1943-03-01 | Unemployed |
| 1943-03-01 | – | 1944-09-01 | Chief of Staff, Army Group Centre |
| 1944-09-01 | – | 1945-02-17 | Chief of Staff, Army Group B |
| 1945-02-17 | – | 1945-03-15 | Chief of Operations Section, Army General Staff, Army High Command OKH |
| 1945-03-15 | – | 1945-04-01 | Wounded and convalescing |
| 1945-04-01 | – | 1945-05-01 | Acting Chief of the Army General Staff, Army High Command OKH |
| 1945-05-01 | Committed suicide |