Egon Fuchs (Major General)

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Egon Fuchs (born December 11, 1892 in Graudenz ; † June 19, 1940 near Saint Aignan ( France )) was a German colonel (posthumously promoted to major general) in the army of the Wehrmacht in World War II .

Life

Promotions

Fuchs joined the 3rd Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 156 in 1911 as a flag junior , in which he acted as platoon leader and battalion and regiment adjutant during the First World War . He was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Wound Badge in Black, the Hamburg Hanseatic Cross and the Cross for Merit in War . After his regiment was demobilized in the spring of 1919, Fuchs was accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr and assigned to the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 16. On October 1, 1920 he moved to the 7th Infantry Regiment , where he was appointed company commander on April 1, 1927 and was employed with the regimental staff from April 1, 1932.

From April 1, 1934 to the end of March 1937, Fuchs acted as adjutant of the 4th Division in Dresden and was then commander of the III. Battalion of the 102nd Infantry Regiment of the 24th Infantry Division in Glauchau . He stayed here until October 23, 1938. On October 24, 1938, Fuchs transferred to the 72nd Infantry Regiment of the 46th Infantry Division , where he was commander of the 2nd Battalion in Eger . In the course of the general mobilization from August 1939 he was assigned to the Infantry Replacement Regiment 102 in Chemnitz on August 26, 1939 , where he acted as commander. On November 1, 1939, Fuchs moved as commander to the 104th Infantry Regiment of the 33rd Infantry Division . With this division, the regiment was involved in the western campaign from the spring of 1940 , in the course of which Fuchs fell on June 19, 1940 near Saint Aignan.

He was posthumously promoted to major general on June 1, 1940.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Brockmann: Die Generale des Heeres 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 4: Fleck – Gyldenfeldt. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996, ISBN 3-7648-2488-3 , pp. 135-136.
  • Wolf Keilig : The Generals of the Army 1939–1945. Podzun-Pallas, Friedberg 1983, ISBN 3-7909-0202-0 , p. 98.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Military weekly: independent magazine for the German armed forces . Mittler, 1917, p. 309 ( google.de [accessed January 26, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1930, p. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1940
Place of death near Saint Aignan ( France )