Gerhard Schmidhuber

Gerhard Schmidhuber (9 April 1894 – 11 February 1945) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Schmidhuber was commanding officer of the 13th Panzer Division during World War II. When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, Schmidhuber was supreme commander of German army forces in that country. In that capacity, he had extensive dealings with the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and after being threatened that he will be treated as a war criminal, prevented the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto. Schmidhuber was killed in action in the Battle of Budapest.