Gottberg, von, Curt (Waffen SS)
- Date of birth:
- February 11th, 1896 (Wilten/Easternprussia, Germany)
- Date of death:
- May 31st, 1945 (POW-camp Leutzhöft-Grundhof/Schleswig Holstein, Germany)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: 45.923 // NSDAP-Nr.: 948.753
- Nationality:
- German (1933-1945, Third Reich)
Biography
Curt Gustav Friedrich Walther von Gottberg
Last achieved rank was SS-Obergruppenführer / General der Waffen-SS und Polizei. Comitted suicide.
01.04.1933: SS-Scharführer
25.04.1933: SS-Truppführer
20.10.1933: SS-Obertruppführer
06.11.1933: SS-Sturmführer
20.10.1933: SS-Sturmhauptführer
30.01.1934: SS-Sturmbannführer
25.03.1934: SS-Obersturmbannführer
09.11.1937: SS-Standartenführer
30.01.1939: SS-Oberführer
01.12.1940: SS-Obersturmbannführer der Reserve der Waffen-SS
20.04.1942: SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei
15.07.1943: SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei
30.06.1944: SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS und Polizei
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Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
SS-Zivilabzeichen
- Awarded on:
- February 1934
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- 1934
- Awarded on:
- December 16th, 1935
- Awarded on:
- December 1st, 1937
- Awarded on:
- December 1st, 1937
- Awarded on:
- 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- January 30th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- December 6th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- January 1st, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- February 20th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Brigadeführer (Major General)
- Unit:
- Kampfgruppen-Kommandeur, SS und Polizeiführer, Weisruthenien
- Awarded on:
- August 7th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- January 30th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- June 8th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- June 30th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Gruppenführer / Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS (Lieutenant General)
- Unit:
- Führer, Kampfgruppe "von Gottberg"
- Awarded on:
- June 30th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obergruppenführer / General der Waffen-SS und Polizei (Lieutenant-General)
- Unit:
- HSSPF Rußland-Mitte und Weißruthenien, Führer, Kampfgruppe von Gottberg
- Awarded on:
- July 15th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1:
- Photo 2:
- Photo 3:
- - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
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