Johannes Frißner ( him Johannes Frießner ; March 22, 1892 , Chemnitz , Saxony - June 26, 1971 , Bad Reichenhall , Bavaria ) - German military leader, member of the First and Second World Wars, Colonel-General ( July 1, 1944 )
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| Date of Birth | March 22, 1892 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Chemnitz , the Kingdom of Saxony , the German Empire | ||||||||||||||
| Date of death | June 26, 1971 (79 years) | ||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bad Reichenhall , Bavaria , Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  German Empire until 1918 Weimar Republic until 1933 Third Reich Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Type of army |  Wehrmacht | ||||||||||||||
| Rank | oberst general | ||||||||||||||
| Commanded | 4th Army Army Group North Army Group South | ||||||||||||||
| Battles / Wars | World War I The Second World War | ||||||||||||||
| Awards and prizes | German Empire
Third Reich
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Biography
Since March 1911 in military service, in the land forces. Participated in the First World War .
After the conclusion of the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, he was left in the Reichswehr .
From March 1938, chief of staff of the inspection of military schools, from September 1939, an inspector of the reserve army for combat training.
August 1, 1940 Frizneru awarded the rank of Major General .
On May 1, 1942, the commander of the 102nd Infantry Division , leading fierce fighting on the Eastern Front.
Having received the rank of lieutenant-general on October 1, 1942 , Frizner was soon appointed commander of the 23rd Army Corps , whom he commanded from January 19 to December 11, 1943 , after which he was ordered to lead the 4th Army . From February 1944, he already commanded the Freezner army group operating in the Baltic states.
April 1, 1944 Frisner made the rank of General of the infantry, April 9, is awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross .
July 1 Frisner is assigned the next rank - Colonel-General, followed by another appointment - the commander of Army Group North (the 16th Army under the command of General G. Hansen and the 18th Army under the command of General Herbert Loch ).
July 25, 1944 Friesner transferred to the south - to command the army group "Southern Ukraine", which in September of the same year was transformed into the army group "South" . On this section of the Eastern Front, parts of the Colonel-General fiercely resisted the advance of the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal Malinovsky , but all was in vain, and in December 1944 Frisner was removed from his post as commander and sent to the reserve. Hitler sharply criticized the failure of Friesner and his armies. . Until the end of the war was not appointed to command positions.
In May 1945 he was arrested by the US military, in November 1947 he was released.
In 1951, Friesner was elected chairman of the “Committee of German Soldiers”. In the early 1950s, he took the most active part in advising on the creation of a new German army - the Bundeswehr .
Literary Works
In 1956, he published his memoirs, “Devoted Battles” ( German Verratene Schlachten ), (for ideological reasons, this name was translated into Russian as “Lost Battles”), which were translated into many languages, including Russian in 1966 . Reissued in Russia in 2013 (Dedicated battles. - M .: Algorithm , 2013. - 328 p. - ISBN 978-5-4438-0270-1 ).
Johannes Friesner died on June 26, 1971 in the Bavarian resort town of Bad Reichenhall .
Awards
- Iron Cross 2nd Class (September 15, 1914) ( Kingdom of Prussia )
- Iron Cross 1st Class (September 19, 1916)
- Order of the Prussian crown 4th class ( Kingdom of Prussia )
- Military Order of St. Heinrich Knight's Cross ( Kingdom of Saxony )
- Order of Merit 2nd Class Knight's Cross with Swords ( Kingdom of Saxony )
- Order of Albrecht 2nd Class Knight's Cross with Swords ( Kingdom of Saxony )
- Breastplate "For the injury" (1918) black
- Honorary Cross of the First World War 1914/1918 with swords (1934)
- Buckle to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd class (July 27, 1942)
- Buckle to the Iron Cross (1939) 1st class (August 21, 1942)
- German Cross in Gold (June 9, 1943)
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
- knight's cross (July 23, 1943)
- oak leaves (No. 445) (April 9, 1944)
- Cross "For Military Merit" 2nd and 1st class with swords
- Mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht (November 29, 1944)
Sources
- Bibliography
- Searle, Alaric (2003). Wehrmacht Generals, West German Society, and the Debate on Rearmament, 1949-1959 , Praeger Pub.
- Walther-Peer Fellgiebel (2000), Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945 . Podzun-pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5
- Gerd F. Heuer. Die Generalobersten des Heeres, Inhaber Höchster Kommandostellen 1933-1945. - 2. - Rastatt: Pabel-Moewig Verlag GmbH, 1997. - 224 p. - (Dokumentationen zur Geschichte der Kriege). - ISBN 3-811-81408-7 .