About: Georg-Wilhelm Postel   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/57M61t8UhqnTfVDn1WHt-A==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Georg-Wilhelm Postel (25 April 1896 in Zittau – 20 September 1953 in Shakhty, Russia) was a general in the German Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Georg-Wilhelm Postel
rdfs:comment
  • Georg-Wilhelm Postel (25 April 1896 in Zittau – 20 September 1953 in Shakhty, Russia) was a general in the German Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
serviceyears
  • 1914(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1896-04-25(xsd:date)
Commands
  • 320(xsd:integer)
  • XXX. Armeekorps
Branch
death place
Name
  • Georg-Wilhelm Postel
Birth Place
  • Zittau
Title
  • Commander of XXX. Armeekorps
  • Commander of 320. Infanterie-Division
Awards
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
death date
  • --09-20
Rank
Allegiance
  • German Empire
  • Nazi Germany
  • Weimar Republic
Battles
Before
  • General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico
  • General der Infanterie Kurt Röpke
  • Generalleutnant Karl Maderholz
Years
  • --07-16
  • --08-20
  • --12-02
After
  • Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann
  • General der Infanterie Kurt Röpke
  • Generalmajor Otto Schell
abstract
  • Georg-Wilhelm Postel (25 April 1896 in Zittau – 20 September 1953 in Shakhty, Russia) was a general in the German Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Postel was taken prisoner of war on 30 August 1944 after the capitulation of Romania and sentenced to 25 years of forced labour on 4 June 1949. Postel died in custody on 20 September 1953 of Tuberculosis. He was interred on the prisoner of war cemetery in Shakhty row 3, grave 14.
is notable commanders of
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software