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Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

14Records
1938–1945Date range
10Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1938

Hans Oster1938

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff, Abwehr, German military intelligence

1939

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich1939

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff for Security by Himmler in Poland

Gunther Korten1939

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the Luftflotte IV in Poland

Otto Moritz Walter Model1939

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the Sixteenth Army

1940

Walter Kurt Josef Nehring9 May 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Commander of XIX Corps

Walter Kurt Josef Nehring20 May 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the Panzer Group comprising XIX, XXXIX & XLI Corps

Georg von Sodenstern1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff

1941

Gunther Korten1941

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the Luftflotte IV in the Balkans

1942

Arthur SchmidtMarch 1942

Kharkov · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the 6th Army

Guenther BlumentrittAugust 1942

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the OB West

Hans Krebs1942

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the Ninth Army

Kurt Zeitzler1942

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the OB West after the British siege of St Nazaire

1943

Gunther Korten1943

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the Luftflotte I in Russia

1945

Hans Krebs1945

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Chief of Staff of the OKW

Names involved

Arthur SchmidtGeorg von SodensternGuenther BlumentrittGunther KortenHans KrebsHans OsterKurt ZeitzlerOtto Moritz Walter ModelReinhard Tristan Eugen HeydrichWalter Kurt Josef Nehring

Provenance

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