Nickname(s) "Willifrank" Service/branch German Army Name Willifrank Ochsner | Rank Generalleutnant Years of service 1915–45 | |
Allegiance German Empire (to 1918)
Weimar Republic (to 1933)
Nazi Germany Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Battle of France
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Kiev (1941)
Battle of Moscow
Operation Bagration Died December 5, 1990, Marquartstein, Germany Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Battles and wars World War I, Battle of France | ||
Commands held 31st Infantry Division | ||
Wilhelm-Francis Ochsner (31 March 1899 – 5 December 1990) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Ochsner surrendered to the Red Army in the summer of 1944 in the course of Soviet Operation Bagration. In 1947 he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for war crimes committed against the citizens of the Soviet Union. Ochsner was released in 1955.
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