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Friedrich Hochbaum

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Years of service
  
1913–45

Rank
  
General der Infanterie


Name
  
Friedrich Hochbaum

Service/branch
  
German Army

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

Battles/wars
  
World War I World War II Battle of France Operation Barbarossa Battle of Bialystok–Minsk Battle of Smolensk (1941) Battle of Moscow Battle of Kursk Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive Cherkassy Pocket Uman–Botosani Offensive East Pomeranian Offensive

Died
  
January 28, 1955, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Awards
  
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Battles and wars
  
World War I, Battle of France

Commands held
  
34th Infantry Division, XVIII Army Corps

Friedrich Hochbaum (7 August 1894 – 28 January 1955) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Hochbaum surrendered to Soviet troops in May 1945 and died in captivity in January 1955.

Awards and decorations

  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (10 October 1914) & 1st Class (5 August 1916)
  • Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (3 July 1941) & 1st Class (21 August 1941)
  • German Cross in Gold on 25 April 1942 as Oberst in Infanterie-Regiment 253
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 22 August 1943 as Generalleutnant and commander of 34. Infanterie-Division
  • Oak Leaves on 4 June 1944 as Generalleutnant and commander of 34. Infanterie-Division

    • References

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