Eugen König

Eugen König (19 September 1896 – 8 April 1985) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

Eugen König
Born(1896-09-19)19 September 1896
Died8 April 1985(1985-04-08) (aged 88)
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Service/branchArmy
RankGeneralleutnant
Commands held91st Infantry Division
272nd Volksgrenadier Division
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

Awards and decorations
  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (30 November 1916) 1st Class (9 July 1920)[1]
  • Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (19 June 1940) & 1st Class (9 September 1940)[1]
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
    • Knight's Cross on 1 August 1942 as Major and commander of II./Infanterie-Regiment 352[2]
    • 318th Oak Leaves on 4 November 1943 as Oberst and commander of Grenadier-Regiment 451[3]
gollark: I assume it also extracts extra code from one of the "insult" lines.
gollark: This is pythonoforms from my entry.
gollark: It doesn't even bother to add newlines!
gollark: ```pythonclass Entry(ℝ): def __init__(self, Matrix=globals()): M_ = collections.defaultdict(__import__("functools").lru_cache((lambda _: lambda: -0)(lambda: lambda: 0))) M_[0] = [*map(lambda dabmal: random.randint(0, len(Row)), range(10))] for self in repr(aes256): for i in range(ℤ(math.gamma(0.5)), ℤ(math.gamma(7))): print(" #"[i in M_[0]], end="") M_[1] = {*lookup[10:]} for M_[3] in [ marshal for t in [*(y for y in (x for x in map(lambda p: range(p - 1, p + 2), M_[0])))] for marshal in t ]: M_[4] = (((M_[3] - 1) in M_[0]) << 2) + ((M_[3] in M_[0]) << 1) + ((M_[3] + 1) in M_[0]) if (0o156&(1<<M_[4]))>>M_[4]: M_[1].add(M_[3]) M_[0] = M_[1] pass passpass```Sheer elegance.
gollark: Apparently nobody noticed the random rule 110 implementation *either*.

References

Citations
  1. Thomas 1997, p. 386.
  2. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 218.
  3. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 64.

Bibliography
  • Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
  • Thomas, Franz (1997). Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 1: A–K [The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 1: A–K] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-2299-6.
Military offices
Preceded by
Generalmajor Bernhard Klosterkemper		 Commander of 91. Luftlande-Infanterie-Division
10 June 1944 - 10 August 1944		 Succeeded by
Renamed 344. Infanterie-Division
Preceded by
Oberst Georg Koßmala		 Commander of 272. Volksgrenadier-Division
13 December 1944 - 14 April 1945		 Succeeded by
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