Death date of Gen. v. Krosigk

[histan]

First, I agree with Jan-Hendrik about the information contained in the HPA files. They do not usually contain details of temporary changes in command, they often struggled to keep up with changing appointments particullarly towards the end of the war, and contain 'official' dates of command change which are not always the same as the actual dates.

I think that the position is as follows:

Rendulic was officially OB H Gr Kurland until officially appointed OB H Gr Süd on 07.04.1945. On the same date (in the same command change order) Hilpert was officially appointed mFb H Gr Kurland, von Krosigk mFb 16 Armee, and Weber mFb XVI AK.

In the 'real world' Rendulic had already left Kurland and Hilpert was already (mstFb ?) in command of H Gr Kurland. Krosigk might already have been at 16 Armee since March. These dates are likely to be in the relevant KTBs and I hope that we can find them.

None of this changes the fact that it is unlikely that von Krosigk died in March 1945 and more likely that he died on 10.04.1945 as shown in the HPA files.

Regards

John

[askropp]

Krosigk was promoted GL mit RDA vom 01.05.1944 (3c). Does anybody know when this actually happened?