Friedrich Materna in Color

General der Infanterie Friedrich Materna (21 June 1885 – 11 November 1946) was a General in the Bundesheer (Austrian Federal Army) in the 1930s and the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. He became a Generalmajor in the Austrian army in 1935, and he was also a part of the Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung (Federal Ministry of Defence), in which he acted as Head of the Training Department. After the Anschluss he was incorporated into the Wehrmacht, where from 1938 to 1940, he commanded the 45. Infanterie-Division. Between 1940 and 1942, he commanded the XX Armeekorps, and from 1942 to 1943, the Military District XVII. Between 1943 and 1944, he was held in reserve, and, in 1944, he retired from the Army. He died in 1946. He received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 5 August 1940 as Generalleutnant and Kommandeur 45. Infanterie-Division.

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