Gustav Schmidt (general)

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|name=Gustav Richard Ernst Schmidt

|birth_date={{birth date|1894|4|24|df=y}}

|death_date={{death date and age|1943|8|7|1894|4|24|df=y}}

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|death_place= Belgorod, Soviet Union

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|allegiance=German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany

|branch=German Army

|serviceyears=1913–1943

|rank=Generalleutnant

|commands=19th Panzer Division

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|battles={{tree list}}

Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation (KIA)

|awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

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Gustav Schmidt (24 April 1894 – 7 August 1943) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Schmidt committed suicide on 7 August 1943 to avoid capture by the Red Army in the course of the Soviet Belgorod-Kharkov Offensive Operation.

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (15 September 1914) & 1st Class (18 October 1915)Thomas 1998, p. 267.

Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (21 September 1939) & 1st Class (2 October 1939)
German Cross in Gold on 22 April 1942 as Oberst in the 19. Schützen-BrigadePatzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 412.
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Knight's Cross on 4 September 1940 as Oberst and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 742Fellgiebel 2000, p. 310.
203rd Oak Leaves on 6 March 1943 as Generalleutnant and commander of 19. Panzer-DivisionFellgiebel 2000, p. 59.

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

}}