Otto Lasch
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Otto Lasch | |
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| Born | 25 June 1893 Pleß, German Empire |
| Died | 29 April 1971 (aged 77) Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany |
| Allegiance |  German Empire Nazi Germany |
| Years of service | 1914–1918 1935–1945 |
| Rank | General of the Infantry |
| Battles/wars | World War I
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves |
Otto Lasch (25 June 1893 in
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
.
Career
After
Riga in June 1941.[2] He rose to the rank of General of the Infantry[3][circular reference] and functioned as Commandant of Königsberg in East Prussia from November 1944 onward. As Fortress Commandant of Königsberg he was responsible for defending the city and maintaining order among the flood of refugees fleeing from the advancing Red Army
.
Following heavy fighting and a three month siege of the city during the
war criminal in the Soviet Union and sentenced to twenty-five years in a corrective labor camp. He was released in 1955.[6] Lasch died in Bonn
in 1971.
Lasch authored So fiel Königsberg. Kampf und Untergang von Ostpreußens Hauptstadt, which was published in 1958. In 1965 he wrote Zuckerbrot und Peitsche about his years as a Soviet prisoner of war.
Awards and decorations
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (5 October 1914) & 1st Class (2 July 1916)[7]
- Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (13 September 1939) & 1st Class (20 October 1939)[7]
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
- Knight's Cross on 17 July 1941 as Oberst and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 43
- Oak Leaves on 10 September 1944 Generalleutnant and commander of 349. Infanterie-Division
References
- Citations
- ISBN 978-0-299-18544-2.
- ISBN 978-0-85745-601-4.
- ^ de:Otto Lasch
- ^ Willemer, Wilhelm. "The German Defence of Berlin 1945". www.allworldwars.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-137-02183-0.
- ISBN 978-1-84545-608-5.
- ^ a b Thomas 1998, p. 13.
- Biography
- Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
- Thomas, Franz (1998). Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 2: L–Z [The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 2: L–Z] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-2300-9.
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