Siegfried Thomaschki

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|name = Siegfried Thomaschki

|birth_date = {{birth-date|20 March 1894}}

|death_date = {{death date and age|1967|5|31|1894|3|20|df=y}}

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|allegiance = {{flag|German Empire}}
{{flag|Weimar Republic}}
{{flag|Nazi Germany}}

|branch = Army (Wehrmacht)

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|rank = General of the Artillery

|commands = 11th Infantry Division
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|battles = World War I

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World War II

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

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Siegfried Thomaschki (20 March 1894 – 31 May 1967) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 11th Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

Thomaschki surrendered to the Soviet forces in the Courland Pocket on 8 May 1945. Convicted in the Soviet Union as a war criminal, he was held until 1955.

Awards and decorations

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (31 November 1914) & 1st Class (27 January 1917)Thomas 1998, p. 375.
Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class & 1st Class (18 December 1939)
German Cross in Gold on 19 December 1941 as Oberst and Arko 123Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 475.
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Knight's Cross on 1 November 1942 as Generalmajor and commander of 11. Infanterie-DivisionFellgiebel 2000, p. 342.
Oak Leaves on 11 September 1943 as Generalleutnant and commander of 11.Infanterie-DivisionFellgiebel 2000, p. 63.

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

}}