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Helmuth Schlömer

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Service/branch
  
Heer

Years of service
  
1913–45


Rank
  
Generalleutnant

Name
  
Helmuth Schlomer

Helmuth Schlömer Helmuth Schlmer 20 May 1893 18 August 1995 RK 02101941

Died
  
18 August 1995(1995-08-18) (aged 102)Minden-Lubbecke

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

Commands held
  
3. Infanterie-Division (mot.)XIV. Panzerkorps

Helmuth Schlömer (20 May 1893 – 18 August 1995) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XIV Panzer Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Schlömer was taken prisoner in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943.

On 29 Jan 1943 Friedrich Paulus learned "Lieutenant-General Schlomer and other generals had received Red Army envoys and were negotiating a surrender with them." While in Soviet captivity he joined the National Committee for a Free Germany or NKFD and was released in 1949.

Awards and decorations

  • Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (14 September 1939) & 1st Class (31 October 1939)
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 2 October 1941 as Oberst and commander of Schützen-Regiment 5
  • 161st Oak Leaves on 23 December 1942 as Generalmajor and commander of 3. Infanterie-Division (mot.)

    • References

    Helmuth Schlömer Wikipedia
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