Commander of the American Sector of Berlin

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Floyd L. Parks, first in command of the American sector
Cornelius E. Ryan, Sector Commander 1947
Lemuel Mathewson, Sector Commander 1951-1953
Barksdale Hamlett, Sector Commander 1957-1959

The commander of the American Sector of Berlin was one of the four city commanders of Berlin who represented the US Army in the Interallied Military Command (later: Allied Command ). The Allied Command was the body with which the four occupying powers, the USA , Great Britain , France and the Soviet Union, exercised control over what was then the four-sector city after the Second World War . She was subordinate to the Allied Control Council .

The commanders

Commanders of the American Sector of Berlin were:

rank Surname Period
Major general Floyd L. Parks July 4, 1945 - September 6, 1945
Major general James M. Gavin September 6, 1945 - October 11, 1945
Major general Ray W. Barker October 11, 1945 - May 7, 1946
Major general Frank A. Keating May 7, 1946 - May 13, 1947
Brigadier General Cornelius E. Ryan May 13, 1947 - September 23, 1947
Brigadier General William Hesketh September 23, 1947 - December 1, 1947
Colonel Frank L. Howley December 1, 1947 - September 1, 1949
Major general Maxwell D. Taylor August 31, 1949 - January 31, 1951
Major general Lemuel Mathewson February 1, 1951 - January 2, 1953
Major general Thomas S. Timberman Jan. 3, 1953 - August 4, 1954
Major general George Honnen August 5, 1954 - September 9, 1955
Major general Charles L. Dasher September 10, 1955 - June 3, 1957
Major general Barksdale Hamlett June 4, 1957 - December 15, 1959
Major general Ralph M. Osborne December 20, 1959 - May 3, 1961
Major general Albert Watson II May 4, 1961 - January 2, 1963
Major general James H. Polk January 1963 - August 1964
Major general John F. Franklin Jr. September 1964 - June 1967
Major general Robert G. Fergusson June 1967 - February 1970
Major general George M. Seignious II February 1970 - May 1971
Major general William W. Cobb May 1971 - June 1974
Major general Sam S. Walker June 1974 - August 1975
Major general Joseph C. McDonough August 1975 - June 1978
Major general Calvert P. Benedict June 1978 - July 1981
Major general James G. Boatner July 1981 - June 1984
Major general John H. Mitchell June 1984 - June 1988
Major general Raymond E. Haddock June 1988 - October 1990

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