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Name Born Died Notes 20 Apr 1936: Werner von Fritsch: 1880: 1939: Commander-in-Chief of the Oberkommando des Heeres: 1 Nov 1938: Ludwig Beck: 1880: 1944: Chief of the German General Staff: 1 Jan 1939: Wilhelm Adam: 1877: 1949: Commander-in-Chief of the Heeresgruppe 2 in Kassel (1938) 1 Oct 1939: Johannes Blaskowitz: 1883: 1948
Pages in category "German Army generals of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 504 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
Common German Names for Boys and Girls 1. Emil "Striving to excel" is the meaning behind this name, which is popular in Northern Germany. 2. Leopold.
Guido Mieth/Getty Images. This name of German origin has a strong sound and a meaning to match: “battle woman.” 21. Helga. Helga is an Old Norse name with a Germanic meaning of “holy ...
According to the Social Security Administration, several of the top 100 names in 2021 come from a German origin: Emma, Henry, Sophia, Mia, Everett, Alice, and Emily, just to name a few.
Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...
He was awarded the "German Cross in Gold". In April 1942 Randow was promoted to major-general. In September 1942 he took over the command of the 21st Panzer Division at the German Africa Corps, where he stayed until his death. On 21 December 1942, south of the Syrtis in Libya, he hit a land mine and died.