Gollwitzer, Friedrich (General der Infanterie)
- Date of birth:
- April 27th, 1889 (Bullenheim-Kitzingen/Bavaria, Germany)
- Date of death:
- March 25th, 1977 (Amberg/Bavaria, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
General der Infanterie Gottfried Friedrich Theodor Gollwitzer
Career:
26.08.1939-28.10.1939: Kdr, Infanterie-Regiment 41
29.10.1939-03.02.1940: Kdr, 193. Division Amberg
04.02.1940-09.03.1943: Generalleutnant, Kommandeur, 88. Infanterie-Division
10.03.1943: Führerreserve, OKH
25.06.1943-30.11.1943: Führer, LIII. Armeekorps, 3. Panzerarmee
01.12.1943: promoted to General der Infanterie and Kdr, LIII. Armeekorps, 3. Panzerarmee
28.06.1944: surrendered at Witebsk - Soviet POW
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Jubiläums-Erinnerungsmedaille für die bewaffnete Macht und die Gendarmerie - Bronze
- Awarded on:
- December 2nd, 1908
Jubiläumsmedaille für die Armee 1905
- Awarded on:
- March 3rd, 1911
Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- March 12th, 1915
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- April 29th, 1915
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- October 17th, 1916
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- February 1st, 1935
- Awarded on:
- October 21st, 1936
- Awarded on:
- October 21st, 1936
- Awarded on:
- October 21st, 1936
- Awarded on:
- October 21st, 1936
- Awarded on:
- 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- September 9th, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 9th, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- August 1st, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalleutnant (Major-general)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, 88. Infanterie-Division
- Awarded on:
- January 25th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalleutnant (Major-general)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, 88. Infanterie-Division
- Awarded on:
- February 8th, 1943
Sources
- Photo 1:
- Photo 2:
- - 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
- General der Infanterie Friedrich Gollwitzer - Lexikon der Wehrmacht
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