Hanns Laengenfelder

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Years of service 1923–45 Service/branch German Army		Name Hanns Laengenfelder Rank Generalmajor
Allegiance Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany Battles/wars World War IIInvasion of PolandBattle of FranceOperation BarbarossaSecond Battle of KharkovLower Dnieper OffensiveUman–Botosani OffensiveJassy–Kishinev Offensive (August 1944)Battle of DebrecenPrague Offensive Died July 18, 1982, Nuremberg, Germany Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Battles and wars Invasion of Poland, Battle of France
Commands held 15th Infantry Division

Hanns Laengenfelder (8 February 1903 – 18 July 1982) was a German general (Generalmajor) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 15th Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Laengenfelder surrendered to the Soviet forces in May 1945 and was held in the Soviet Union as a war criminal until 1955.

Awards and decorations

Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (17 September 1939) & 1st Class (1 November 1939)

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

Knight's Cross on 21 October 1943 as Oberstleutnant and commander of Grenadier-Regiment 106

Nominated for Oak Leaves in 1945

References

Hanns Laengenfelder Wikipedia

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