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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Botho Graf von Hülsen

von Hülsen, Botho Graf

Lieutenant-General

* 6th of July 1895

† 11th of January 1980

Promotions

1937-08-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-06-01 Colonel
1943-12-01 Major-General
1944-07-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1935-10-15 1937-10-12 Attached to II Corps
1935-10-15 1937-10-12 Adjutant to Field Marshal von Mackensen
1937-10-12 1939-08-26 Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment
1939-08-26 1940-03-08 Unemployed
1940-03-08 1941-03-15 Adjutant to the General for Special Employment, Military District I
1941-04-30 1941-05-25 Unemployed
1941-05-25 1941-06-01 Attached to Military Commander France
1941-06-01 1942-04-15 Adjutant, Military Commander France
1942-04-15 1943-04-01 Commandant of Weimar
1943-04-01 1943-09-10 Commanding Officer 461st Infantry Regiment
1943-09-10 1943-11-15 Unemployed
1943-11-15 1944-02-01 Acting General Officer Commanding 62nd Infantry Division
1944-02-01 1944-03-10 General Officer Commanding 62nd Infantry Division
1944-03-10 1944-06-01 General Officer Commanding 5th Luftwaffe Field Division
1944-06-01 1944-09-03 General Officer Commanding 370th Infantry Division
1944-09-03 1949-08-19 Prisoner of War, Soviet Captivity
1949-08-19 Condemned to 25 years imprisonment by a Soviet Military Court as war criminal
1955-10-11 Released
Picture source: BArch PERS 6/299917