Gerhard Schmidhuber

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Gerhard Schmidhuber
13th Panzer Division
Battles/warsWorld War I

World War II

Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

Gerhard Schmidhuber (9 April 1894 – 11 February 1945) was a German general during

Battle of Budapest
.

Awards

  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (9 May 1915) &1st Class (7 December 1917)[2]
  • Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (29 September 1939) & 1st Class (24 June 1940)[2]
  • German Cross in Gold on 28 February 1942 as Oberstleutnant in the II./Schützen-Regiment 103[3]
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
    • Knight's Cross on 18 October 1943 as Oberst and commander of Panzergrenadier-Regiment 304[4]
    • Oak Leaves on 21 January 1945 as Generalmajor and commander of the 13.Panzer-Division[5]

References

Citations

  1. ^ "Történész vita: Lehet-e emléktáblája egy Wehrmacht-tábornoknak Budapesten? | Mazsihisz". Archived from the original on 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  2. ^ a b Thomas 1998, p. 264.
  3. ^ Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 411.
  4. ^ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 380.
  5. ^ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 95.

Bibliography

Military offices
Preceded by
General der Panzertruppe Dr. Karl Mauss
Commander of 7th Panzer Division
2 May 1944 – 9 September 1944
Succeeded by
General der Panzertruppe Dr. Karl Mauss
Preceded by
Generalleutnant Hans Tröger
Commander of 13th Panzer Division
9 September 1944 – 11 February 1945
Succeeded by
none