Otto Moritz Walter Model Biography and Timeline — Page 3

Commander of Army Group Ukraine

Reaches his new HQ with orders to hold the Carpathian Mountains

Commander of Army Group Ukraine

Reaches his new HQ with orders to hold the Carpathian Mountains

Role range: 1939-1945

Red Army

The Red Army begins its offensive against Army Group Centre

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Commander of Army Group Centre

Appointed Commander of the Army Group Centre

Commander of Army Group Centre

Appointed Commander of the Army Group Centre

Role range: 1939-1945

Capture of Minsk

Army Group Centre loses 28 Divisions, the way to Poland is open to the Red Army

Role range: 1939-1945

Medal

Awarded Diamonds to the Knights Cross

Role range: 1939-1945

Commander of Army Group B

Appointed Commander of Army Group B

Supreme Commander

Appointed Supreme Commander of the West

Commander of Army Group B

Appointed Commander of Army Group B

Role range: 1939-1945

Supreme Commander

Appointed Supreme Commander of the West

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Falaise Gap

The final pocket of resistance in the Falaise Gap is removed by the Alies

Role range: 1939-1945

Commander of Army Group B

Reverts to just Commanding Army Group B

Commander of Army Group B

Reverts to just Commanding Army Group B

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Arnhem

1st day of the Battle of Arhem

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Arnhem

Model arranged for units to be sent straight to the units in action in order to avoid long-winded logistics, and rushed in specialist street fighting and machine gun battalions. Each day of the battle, the German military strength increased whilst the British supplies diminished. By 21 September, the fifth day of the battle, German forces outnumbered the British by 3:1 and continued to increase

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Arnhem

Halts the Allied advance

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Arnhem

Arnhem was a victory for the Germans (albeit tempered by their losses further south) and a major defeat for the British army.

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Arnhem

Model moved his headquarters to Arnhem and was re-establishing defences in the area and co-ordinating the reorganisation of the scattered units so that by the time the Allies launched Market Garden there would be several units opposing them.

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Arnhem

The Allies withdrew from the southern bank of the Rhine and the front stabilised on "the island" between the Rhine and Waal rivers.

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Market Garden

Model moved his headquarters to Arnhem and was re-establishing defences in the area and co-ordinating the reorganisation of the scattered units so that by the time the Allies launched Market Garden there would be several units opposing them

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Arnhem

Although the Germans counterattacked in October they were repulsed and subsequently the front line in The Netherlands would not move until after the winter

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Bulge

At a conference Model presses for the "small solution", Hitler refuses

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Bulge

The closest the Germans get to Antwerp is Dinant, well to the east of the Maas. Ordered by Hitler, Model prefers just to take out the US salient at Aachen

Role range: 1939-1945

Siege of Antwerp

The closest the Germans get to Antwerp is Dinant, well to the east of the Maas

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Bulge

Hitler orders the "small solution", the battle is lost & Germans retreat into Germany

Role range: 1939-1945

Commander of Army Group Narva

Appointed Commander of Army Group Narva

Army Group Narva

Creates Army Group Narva out of Army Group North. Created to prevent the Soviet breakthrough into the Baltic

Role range: 1939-1945

Commander of Army Group Narva

Appointed Commander of Army Group Narva

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Bulge

Final day of the Battle of the Bulge, gives way to the Allied advance

Role range: 1939-1945

Burial

Shoots himself in woods near Rattingen, buried where he had shot himself under an oak

Role range: 1939-1945

Death of Otto Moritz Walter Model

Death of Otto Moritz Walter Model, commits suicide

Role range: 1939-1945

Suicide

Shoots himself in woods near Rattingen, buried where he had shot himself under an oak. Death of Otto Moritz Walter Model, commits suicide

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Ruhr

The Allies encircle Models Army. Model holds out for 18 days until handing over 300,000 troops. Hitler refuses to let Army Group B withdraw. Hitler orders the destruction of the Ruhr, Model refuses

Role range: 1939-1945