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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Heinz Max Sehestes von Gyldenfeldt

von Gyldenfeldt, Heinz Max Sehestes

Lieutenant-General

* 15th of August 1899

† 23rd of August 1971

Promotions

1939-08-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-02-01 Colonel
1943-07-01 Major-General
1944-11-09 Lieutenant-General

Service

1939-06-01 1939-08-26 Attached to 11th Section, Army General Staff, Army High Command OKH
1939-08-26 1940-04-15 Chief of Operations (Ia), 212th Infantry Division
1940-04-15 1940-05-07 Attached to Senior Quartermaster I, Army General Staff, Army High Command OKH
1940-05-07 1940-05-28 Liaison Officer of the Army High Command OKH to Panzer Group von Kleist
1940-05-28 1941-03-06 Chief of Operations (Ia), 9th Army
1941-03-06 1941-06-01 Unemployed
1941-06-01 1941-12-19 First General Staff Officer to the Commander in Chief of the Army
1942-05-05 1942-07-11 Chief of Operations (Ia), Army Group A
1943-07-11 1943-07-15 Unemployed
1943-07-15 1943-10-05 Chief of Staff, 11th Italian Army
1943-10-05 1943-10-15 Unemployed
1943-10-15 1944-05-05 Chief of Staff, 4th Army
1944-05-05 1944-09-20 Chief of Staff, Army Group G
1944-09-20 1944-10-15 Unemployed
1944-10-15 1945-03-24 Chief of Staff, Army Group F
1945-03-24 1945-05-08 Chief of Staff, Army Group South
1945-05-08 1947-12-23 Prisoner of War
1947-12-23 Released
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/301964