Karl Kessel

{{Short description|German general and Knight's Cross recipient (1912–1997)}}

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|name=Karl Kessel

|birth_date=1 June 1912

|death_date={{death date and age|1997|8|24|1912|6|1|df=y}}

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|birth_place=Mülheim, German Empire

|death_place= Bonn, Germany

|allegiance={{flag|Nazi Germany}}
{{flag|West Germany}}

|branch=Luftwaffe
German Air Force

|serviceyears=1945
1956–70

|rank=Generalmajor

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|commands=KG 2

|battles=World War II

|awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

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Karl Kessel (1 June 1912 – 24 August 1997) was a German officer during World War II and a general in the armed forces of West Germany. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Kessel joined the Bundeswehr in 1956 and retired in 1970 as a Generalmajor.

Awards

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 23 January 1944 as Oberstleutnant and Geschwaderkommodore of Kampfgeschwader 2Fellgiebel 2000, p. 208.

References

=Citations=

=Bibliography=

{{Cite book

|last=Fellgiebel

|first=Walther-Peer

|author-link=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel

|year=2000

|orig-year=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

}}

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before=Leutnant Otto-Wolfgang Bechtle|

after=Major Johannes Hübner|

title=Gruppenkommandeur of IV./Kampfgeschwader 2|

years=19 September 1940 – 21 March 1941

}}

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