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German general
Gerhard Schmidhuber
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Place of birth
Dresden, Dresden Directorate District, Saxony, Germany
Death
11 February 1945 (aged 50 years)
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Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary
Age
50 years
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Biography
Gerhard Schmidhuber (9 April 1894 – 11 February 1945) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Schmidhuber was commanding officer of the 13th Panzer Division during World War II. When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, Schmidhuber was supreme commander of German army forces in that country. In that capacity, he had extensive dealings with the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and after being threatened that he will be treated as a war criminal, prevented the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto. Schmidhuber was killed in action in the Battle of Budapest.
Awards
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (9 May 1915) &1st Class (7 December 1917)
- Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (29 September 1939) & 1st Class (24 June 1940)
- German Cross in Gold on 28 February 1942 as Oberstleutnant in the II./Schützen-Regiment 103
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
- Knight's Cross on 18 October 1943 as Oberst and commander of Panzergrenadier-Regiment 304
- Oak Leaves on 21 January 1945 as Generalmajor and commander of the 13.Panzer-Division
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