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Schulzen, Gustav (Generalmajor)

Date of birth:
November 6th, 1893 (Domersleben/Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Date of death:
April 6th, 1944 (Reval, Estonia)
Buried on:
German War Cemetery Reval-Marienberg / Tallinn-Maarjamäe
Nationality:
German

Biography

Gustav Schulzen was being watchedfor his ties with the resistance against Hitler. He was a friend of Generalmajor vond Traskov. Officially he died of a heart attack, but his driver decrlared that he committed suicide.

02.08.1914: Fahnenjunker, 7. Lothringisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 158
30.10.1915: promoted to Leutnant without Patent
00.11.1915: Lt., Kompanieoffizier, Zugführer, 7. Lothringisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 158
00.00.1917: Patent as Leutnant 22.03.1916
00.00.1917-00.00.1918: Kompanieführer
01.10.1919: Leutnant, Reichswehr-Infanterie-Regiment 13
00.00.1920: Kompanieoffizier, Infanterie-Regiment 18
01.07.1922: Patent as Leutnant 01.09.1915
00.01.1924: Lt., 2. Kompanie, Infanterie-Regiment 18, Paderborn
01.03.1925: promoted to Oberleutnant
01.11.1925: Olt., Zugführer, 5. Kompanie, 4. (Preuß.) Infanterie-Regiment, Kolberg
00.00.1927-00.00.1928: Olt., Zugführer, 9. Kompanie, 4. (Preuß.) Infanterie-Regiment, Deutsch Krone
01.10.1929: promoted to Hauptmann and Chef, 9. Kompanie, 4. (Preuß.) Infanterie-Regiment, Deutsch Krone
00.00.1934: Hptm., Chef, 9. Kompanie, Infanterie-Regiment Stargard, Schneidemühl
01.09.1935: promoted to Major
15.10.1935: Major, Kommandeur, III. Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 16, Oldenburg
01.02.1937: Major, Stab, Kommandantur Lötzen
12.10.1937: Major, Kommandeur, III. Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 24, Braunsberg
01.06.1938: promoted to Oberstleutnant (19)
00.09.1939: Oberstleutnant, Kommandeur, III. Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 24, 21. Infanterie-Division - campaign in Poland
00.11.1939: deployed in the Eifel
00.02.1940: campaign in the West
00.05.1940: Oberstleutnant, Kommandeur, Infanterie-Regiment 3, 21. Infanterie-Division
05.10.1940: Oberstleutnant, Kommandeur, Infanterie-Regiment 407, 121. Infanterie-Division
01.06.1941: promoted to Oberst (16)
00.06.1941: campaign in Russia
00.01.1942: Nordabschnitt, Ostfront
06.01.1942: awarded the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
00.00.1942-01.04.1944: Oberst, Kommandeur, Armee-Waffenschule, Heeresgruppe Nord
01.04.1944: promoted to Generalmajor and Führer, Division
06.04.1944: died of a heart attack or committed suicide on the road to his next appointment

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Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Awarded on:
1918
Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz (1918)
Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Awarded on:
1934
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
Awarded on:
1936
Dienstauszeichnung der Wehrmacht 4.Klasse, 4 Jahre
Awarded on:
1936
Dienstauszeichnung der Wehrmacht  3.Klasse, 12 Jahre
Awarded on:
1936
Dienstauszeichnung der Wehrmacht  2. Klasse, 18 Jahre
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Oberst (Colonel)
Unit:
Kdr, Infanterie-Regiment 407, 121. Infanterie-Division
Awarded on:
January 6th, 1942
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Sources

  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
    - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001
    - Gustav Schulzen | Gräbersuche-Online

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