The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Hans Hugo Wilhelm Bernhard von Donat

von Donat, Hans Hugo Wilhelm Bernhard

Lieutenant-General

* 6th of July 1891

† 11th of June 1992

Promotions

1935-06-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1937-10-01 Colonel
1941-11-01 Major-General
1944-01-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1934-10-01 1935-10-15 Commanding Officer Pioneer Battalion Holzminden
1935-10-15 1936-04-01 Commanding Officer 19th Pioneer Battalion
1936-04-01 1938-11-10 Commanding Officer Pioneers VI
1938-11-10 1939-10-10 Commanding Officer 68th Railway Pioneer Regiment
1938-11-10 1939-07-31 Commanding Officer Pioneer Troops Training Ground Rehagen-Klausdorf-Speremberg
1939-08-01 1939-10-10 Commanding Officer Railway Pioneers, Army Group South
1939-10-10 1940-09-14 Commanding Officer Railway Pioneers, Army Group B
1940-09-14 1940-12-07 Commanding Officer Railway Pioneers, Army Group A
1940-12-07 1941-02-01 Commanding Officer Railway Pioneers West
1941-02-01 1941-05-12 Commanding Officer Railway Pioneers, Army Group A
1941-05-12 1942-02-01 Commanding Officer Railway Pioneers, Army Group North
1942-02-01 1942-07-20 Plenipotentiary General of the Chief of Transport Affairs, Reich Transport Ministry (Eastern Branch, Warsaw)
1942-07-20 1945-05-08 Commandant of Railway Pioneer School Rehagen
1942-07-20 1945-05-08 Commanding Officer Railway Pioneer Troops Training Ground Rehagen-Klausdorf-Speremberg
1945-04-01 1945-05-08 Railway Pioneer Inspector with the Commander of the Replacement Army
1945-05-08 1947-06-05 Prisoner of War, British Captivity
1947-06-05 Released
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/299568