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Adolf Raegener

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Years of service
  
1914–45

Rank
  
Generalleutnant


Name
  
Adolf Raegener

Service/branch
  
German Army

Born
  
17 February 1895Kleinleinungen (
1895-02-17
)

Allegiance
  
German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany

Battles/wars
  
World War IWorld War IIAnnexation of the MemellandInvasion of PolandBattle of BelgiumBattle of FranceBattle of DunkirkOperation BarbarossaBattle of Bialystok–MinskBattle of Smolensk (1941)Battle of Moscow

Died
  
August 17, 1983, Braunschweig, Germany

Awards
  
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Commands held
  
Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam

Adolf Raegener (17 February 1895 – 17 August 1983) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

Awards and decorations

  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class & 1st Class (2 March 1917)(5 June 1916)
  • Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (1 October 1939) & 1st Class (17 May 1940)
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 25 June 1940 as Oberstleutnant and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 309
  • 842nd Oak Leaves on 17 April 1945 as Generalleutnant and commander of Verteidigungsbereich Magdeburg

    • References

    Adolf Raegener Wikipedia
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