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Karl Löwrick

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Service/branch
  
Heer

Years of service
  
1912–20 1936–45


Rank
  
Generalleutnant

Name
  
Karl Lowrick

Karl Löwrick photo of Karl Lwrick Google Search WW2 Portraits Germans 3

Born
  
8 November 1894 Podlechen (
1894-11-08
)

Died
  
8 April 1945(1945-04-08) (aged 50) Pillau

Allegiance
  
German Empire (to 1918)  Weimar Republic (to 1920)  Nazi Germany

Commands held
  
93. Infanterie-Division 542. Infanterie-Division 542. Volksgrenadier-Division

Karl Löwrick (8 November 1894 – 8 April 1945) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II, and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Löwrick was killed on 8 April 1945 in an accident in Pillau.

Awards and decorations

  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (9 May 1915) & 1st Class (18 September 1917)
  • Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (14 June 1940) &1st Class (20 June 1940)
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 5 August 1940 as Oberstleutnant and commander of III./Infanterie-Regiment 272
  • 247th Oak Leaves on 17 May 1943 as Oberst and commander of Grenadier-Regiment 272

    • References

    Karl Löwrick Wikipedia
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