Gustav-Adolf von Nostitz-Wallwitz

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|name=Gustav-Adolf von Nostitz-Wallwitz

|birth_date=11 July 1898

|death_date={{death date and age|1945|5|31|1898|7|11|df=y}}

|birth_place= Oschatz

|death_place=Eckernförde

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|allegiance= {{flag|German Empire}} (to 1918)
{{flag|Weimar Republic}} (to 1933)
{{flag|Nazi Germany}}

|branch=Army (Wehrmacht)

|serviceyears= 1917–1945

|rank= Generalmajor

|commands=24th Panzer Division

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|battles= World War I

World War II

|awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

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Gustav-Adolf von Nostitz-Wallwitz (11 July 1898 – 31 May 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography

Gustav Adolf was born into the collateral branch of an old, noble House of Nostitz, as the son of Max von Nostitz-Wallwitz (d. 1911), Oberstleutnant, and his wife, Helene von Minckwitz (d. 1945). {{cite web | url=https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=191017 | title=GM Gustav-Adolf von Nostitz-Wallwitz 11.07.1898 - 31.05.1945 - Axis History Forum }} He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Nostitz-Wallwitz was wounded in March 1945 in the Heiligenbeil Pocket, he was evacuated to a hospital in Eckernförde and died on 31 May 1945.

Awards and decorations

German Cross in Gold on 1 December 1941 as Oberstleutnant in reitendes Artillerie-Regiment 1Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 333.

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 12 June 1944 as Oberst and commander of Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 89Fellgiebel 2000, p. 267.

References

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{{Cite book

|last=Fellgiebel

|first=Walther-Peer

|authorlink=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel

|year=2000

|origyear=1986

|title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile

|trans-title=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

|language=German

|location=Friedberg, Germany

|publisher=Podzun-Pallas

|isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6

}}