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Portrait of General of Infantry Karl von Roques

von Roques, Karl

General of Infantry

* 7th of May 1880

† 24th of December 1949

Promotions

1924-08-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1928-02-01 Colonel
1931-05-01 Major-General
1933-05-31 Honorary Lieutenant-General
1936-05-01 Lieutenant-General
1939-07-01 Honorary General of Anti-Aircraft Artillery
1939-12-01 General of Infantry

Service

1921-10-01 1923-09-30 Chief of Staff, 2nd Infantry Division
1923-09-30 1927-01-31 Commanding Officer ? Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment
1927-01-31 1927-03-31 Attached to 13th Infantry Regiment
1927-03-31 1929-03-31 Chief of Operations (Ia), Group Command 2
1929-04-01 1929-09-30 Attached to 16th Infantry Regiment
1929-09-30 1931-09-30 Commanding Officer 16th Infantry Regiment
1931-09-30 1933-01-31 Infantry Leader I
1933-01-31 Retired
1934-08-01 Joins the Air Force
1934-08-01 1936-04-29 Vice-President of the Reich Air Protection League
1934-08-01 1936-04-29 Chief of Staff, Reich Air Protection League
1936-04-29 1939-05-31 President of the Reich Air Protection League
1939-06-01 1939-06-30 Officer for Special Employment with the Commander in Chief of the Air Force
1939-06-30 Retired
1939-12-01 Recalled to the Army
1939-12-01 1940-05-14 General Officer Commanding 143rd Infantry Division
1940-05-14 1941-03-15 General for Special Employment, Military District III
1941-03-16 1942-06-15 General Officer Commanding Army Rear Area 103
1942-06-16 1942-07-19 Unemployed
1942-07-20 1942-12-31 General Officer Commanding Security Troops & Army Group Rear Area South
1942-12-31 1943-03-31 Unemployed
1943-03-31 Retired
1945-XX-XX 1948-10-28 Arrested
1948-10-28 Condemned to 20 years imprisonment by at US Military Tribunal as war criminal
1949-12-24 Died in prison
Picture source: https://ww2gravestone.com/people/roques-karl-von/