Bio of General der Panzertruppe Walther Nehring (1892-1983)

General der Panzertruppe Walther Kurt Nehring

Born: 15.08.1892 in Stretzin / Kreis Schlochau / Westpreußen.
Died: 20.04.1983 in Düsseldorf.

Promotions:
16.09.1914 Fahnenjunker
18.02.1914 Leutnant (mit Patent vom 22.02.1914)
06.06.1915 Oberleutnant
01.03.1923 Hauptmann
00.00.193_ Major
01.10.1934 Oberstleutnant
01.03.1937 Oberst
01.08.1940 Generalmajor
01.02.1942 Generalleutnant
01.07.1942 General der Panzertruppe

Commands & Assignments:
01.10.1937 - 01.07.1939 (?) Kommandeur of Panzer-Regiment 5.
01.07.1939 - 01.06.1940 Chef des Generalstabes of XIX.Armee-Korps.
01.06.1940 - 26.10.1940 Chef des Generalstabes of Panzergruppe Guderian.
26.10.1940 - 25.01.1942 Kommandeur of 18.Panzer-Division.
09.03.1942 - 31.08.1942 Kommandierender General of the Deutsche AFrika Korps.
15.11.1942 - 09.12.1942 Befehlshaber in Tunesien.
10.02.1943 - 27.06.1944 Kommandierender General of XXIV.Panzer-Korps.
28.06.1944 - 05.08.1944 stellvertretender Führer of 4.Panzer-Armee (in temporary command due to the absence of the permanent Oberbefehlshaber, Josef Harpe).
20.08.1944 - 19.03.1945 Kommandierender General of XXIV.Panzer-Korps.
22.03.1945 - 03.04.1945 Führer of 1.Panzer-Armee.

Decorations & Awards:
22.01.1945 Schwertern zum Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes (124.) as General der Panzertruppe and Kom. Gen. XXIV.Panzer-Korps, Eastern Front
08.02.1944 Eichenlaub zum Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes as General der Panzertruppe and Kom. Gen. XXIV.Panzer-Korps / 4.Panzer-Armee / Heeresgruppe Süd, Eastern Front
24.07.1941 Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes as Generalmajor and Kdr. 18.Panzer-Division / XXXXVII.Armee-Korps (mot.) / Panzergruppe 2 / Heeresgruppe Mitte, Eastern Front
29.09.1939 1939 Spange zum 1914 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse
11.09.1939 1939 Spange zum 1914 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse
25.11.1917 1914 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse
27.01.1915 1914 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse
00.00.194_ Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber
02.09.1943 Verwundetenabzeichen, 1939 in Gold
ca. 1918 Verwundetenabzeichen, 1918 in Silber
00.00.1943 Ärmelband "Afrika"
00.00.1942 Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42"
00.00.19__ Spange "Prager Burg" zur Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
00.00.19__ Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
ca. 1934 Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
00.00.193_ Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung IV. bis I. Klasse
00.06.1942 Silver Medal for Bravery (Italy)
00.00.193_ Österr. Kriegs-Erinnerungs-Medaille mit Schwertern
00.00.193_ War Commemorative Medal with Swords (Hungary)
00.00.193_ War Commemorative Medal with Swords (Bulgaria)
00.00.1971 Westpreußen-Medaille
27.07.1973 Verdienstkreuz I. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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Walther Nehring (15 August 1892 – 20 April 1983) was born on 15 August 1892 in Stretzin, West Prussia. Nehring was the descendant of a Dutch family who had fled the Netherlands to escape religious persecution in the seventeenth century. His father, Emil Nehring, was an estate owner and officer of the Military Reserve. While Nehring was still a child the family moved to Danzig.

Nehring joined the military service on 16 September 1911 in the Infanterie-Regiment 152. He became a commissioned Leutnant on 18 December 1913.

On 26 October 1940 he received command of the 18th Panzer Division at Chemnitz, which he commanded during the operations Barbarossa and Typhoon. The division led by Nehring stands accused of war crimes by numerous accounts.

Nehring took command of the Afrika Korps in May 1942 and took part in the last major Axis offensive (Operation Brandung) of the Western Desert campaign and the subsequent Battle of Alam Halfa (31 August - 7 September 1942), during which he was wounded in an air raid. Between November and December 1942, he commanded the LXXXX Army Corps, the German contingent in Tunisia.

After North Africa, Nehring was posted to the Eastern Front where he commanded first the XXIV Panzer Corps, and then from July to August 1944 the Fourth Panzer Army. Nehring then returned to the XXIV in August 1944 and led the Corps until March 1945 when he was made commander of the 1st Panzer Army. During 1944 he was also the commanding officer of the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps.

Following the end of the war, Nehring wrote a comprehensive history of the German panzer forces from 1916 to 1945, Die Geschichte der deutschen Panzerwaffe 1916 bis 1945. He also wrote the foreword to Len Deighton's Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk.

Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Nehring
http://www.geocities.ws/orion47.geo/WEHRMACHT/HEER/General2/NEHRING_WALTHER.html
https://waralbum.ru/336845/