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Ehrenfried Oskar Boege

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Years of service
  
1913-45

Rank
  
General der Infanterie


Name
  
Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege

Service/branch
  
German Army

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Allegiance
  
German Empire (to 1918)  Weimar Republic (to 1933)  Nazi Germany (to 1945)

Battles/wars
  
World War I World War II Annexation of the Sudetenland Invasion of Poland Battle of France Operation Barbarossa Battle of Smolensk (1941) Battle of Moscow Battle of Smolensk (1943) Courland Pocket

Died
  
December 31, 1965, Hildesheim, Germany

Awards
  
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Battles and wars
  
World War I, Invasion of Poland, Battle of France

Commands held
  
197th Infantry Division, 43e corps d'armee, 18th Army

Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege (11 November 1889 – 31 December 1965) was a German general during World War II who held several corps level commands. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

Boege surrendered to the Soviet forces in May 1945 in the Courland Pocket. Convicted as a war criminal in the Soviet Union, he was held until 1955.

Awards and decorations

  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (30 September 1914) & 1st Class (6 February 1917)
  • Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (16 June 1940) &1st Class (16 June 1940)
  • German Cross in Gold on 13 January 1943 as Generalmajor and commander of the 197. Infanterie-Division
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 22 December 1941 as Oberst and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 7
  • Oak Leaves on 21 September 1944 as General der Infanterie and commander of XXXXIII. Armee-Korps

    • References

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