Military career

Fähnenjunker : 27 March 1911

Leutnant : 18 August 1912

Oberleutnant : 27 January 1916

German Army

Rittmeister : 1 May 1922

Major : 1 October 1931

Oberstleutnant : 1 April 1934

Oberst : 1 March 1936

Generalmajor : 1 November 1939

Generalleutnant : 1 November 1941

General der Pioniere : 1 November 1942

Generaloberst : 30 January 1944

Flew out of the Stalingrad pocket on

21 January 1943

Second World War

Gen. St. 2. Armee : 1 September 1939

Gen. St. Gr. Abschn. Mitte : 13 October 1939

Gen. St. OB. Ost : 1 November 1939

Gen. St. 9. Armee : 15 April 1940

Führerreserve OKH : 23 May 1940

Chef. D. Mil. Verw. Frankreich und O.Qu West : 1 May 1940

Kdr. 389. I.D. : 1 February 1942

Kdr. IV. Armeekorps : 1 November 1942

Führerreserve OKH : 27 January 1943

Kdr. LXXXII. Armeekorps : 1 April 1943

mFb. 17. Armee : 1 June 1943

O.B. 17. Armee : 8 October 1943

Führerreserve OKH : 1 May 1944

End career : 31 January 1945

Captured by the Russians : 11 June 1945

Awards won during World War 2 :

Spange E.K. II in 1939

Spange E.K. I in 1939

Knights Cross on 9 October 1942

DKiG on 1 February 1943

Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Silber; Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz in 1939