Elverfeldt, Freiherr von, Harald
- Date of birth:
- February 6th, 1900 (Hildesheim/Lower Saxony, Germany)
- Date of death:
- March 6th, 1945 (Cologne/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
In service from March 28th 1918.
1918 Fähnrich
1919 Leutnant
1926 Oberleutnant
1933 Hauptmann
1937 Major i.G.
1939 Oberstleutnant i.G.
1942 Oberst i.G.
1943 Generalmajor
1945 Generalleutnant posthum
In 1918 Freiherr von Elverfeldt joined the 1st Guards Regiment on foot as an ensign. After several different assignments and training as a General Staff Officer, he was promoted to Major i.G. on March 1, 1937 and from November 1938 he was 1st General Staff Officer in the 3rd Light Division.
From February 15, 1940 to January 31, 1941 he was Ia of the XV. Panzer Corps and from March 1941 to the end of January 1943 Chief of the General Staff of the LVI. Panzer Corps, from January 1943 to August 1943 he was Chief of the General Staff of the 9th Army. He was then Chief of the General Staff of the 17th Army for three months. From February 15, 1944 he was Ia of the course for senior troop leaders and in September 1944 he was given command of the 9th P.D.
For his services in the leadership of his division he was awarded the Knight's Cross on December 9, 1944.
Baron von Elverfeldt was killed in a street fight in Cologne-Nippes at the end of March 1943.
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1939 Spange zum Eisernes Kreuz 2er Klasse 1914
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- September 29th, 1939
Had already received the Iron Cross 2nd Class on April 17th 1919.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 8th, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberst im Generalstab (Colonel to the General Staff)
- Unit:
- Chef des Generalstabes, LVI. Panzerkorps
- Awarded on:
- March 16th, 1942
Award 92.14
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- November 26th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalmajor (Brigadier)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, Stab, 9. Panzer-Division, Heer
- Awarded on:
- December 9th, 1944
4181st Award.
Submitted on November 27th 1944.
Preliminary document and decoration on December 15th 1944 to OB West.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalmajor (Brigadier)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, Stab, 9. Panzer-Division, Heer
- Awarded on:
- March 23rd, 1945
801st Award.
Submitted on March 14th 1945.
Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- December 21st, 1934
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- August 5th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 2nd, 1936
Sources
- Photo 1: Wilco Vermeer
- Photo: Wilco Vermeer collection, the Netherlands
- - THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945, Biblio-Verlag, 1997.
- WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945, Biblio-Verlag, 2004.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
- Federl, C., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, Germany, 2000
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001
- Generalleutnant Harald Freiherr von Elverfeldt - Lexikon der Wehrmacht
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