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Johannes Frießner, the Glossary

Johannes Frießner (22 March 1892 – 26 June 1971) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II.^[1]

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Colonel generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht)
Military personnel from Chemnitz

Albert Order

The Albert Order (Albrechts-Orden or Albrechtsorden) was created on 31 December 1850 by King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony to commemorate Albert III, Duke of Saxony (known as Albert the Bold).

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Anton Grasser (3 November 1891 – 3 November 1976) was a German general during World War II who commanded several corps. Johannes Frießner and Anton Grasser are German Army generals of World War II, Recipients of the Gold German Cross and Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

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Army Group North

Army Group North (Heeresgruppe Nord) was the name of three separate army groups of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

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Army Group South

Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of one of three German Army Groups during World War II.

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Army Group South Ukraine

Army Group South Ukraine (Heeresgruppe Südukraine, Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud) was a joint German-Romanian group on the Eastern Front during World War II.

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Bad Reichenhall

Bad Reichenhall (Central Bavarian: Reichahoi) is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany.

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Bayerisch Gmain

Bayerisch Gmain is a municipality and a village in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria in Germany.

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Carl Hilpert

Carl Hilpert (12 September 1888 – 1 February 1947) was a German general during World War II. Johannes Frießner and Carl Hilpert are Colonel generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht), Recipients of the Gold German Cross and Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

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Chemnitz

Chemnitz (from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden.

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Clasp to the Iron Cross

The Clasp to the Iron Cross (Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz) was a white metal medal clasp displayed on the uniforms of German Wehrmacht personnel who had been awarded the Iron Cross in World War I, and who again qualified for the decoration in World War II.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Erich von Manstein

Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (born Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski; 24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Ferdinand Schörner

Ferdinand Schörner (12 June 1892 – 2 July 1973) was a German military commander who held the rank of Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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General of the Infantry (Germany)

General of the Infantry (General der Infanterie, abbr. General d. Inf.) is a former rank of the German army (Heer).

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Generaloberst

A Generaloberst ("colonel general") was the second-highest general officer rank in the German Reichswehr and Wehrmacht, the Austro-Hungarian Common Army, the East German National People's Army and in their respective police services.

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Georg Lindemann

Georg Lindemann (8 March 1884 – 25 September 1963) was a German general during World War II. Johannes Frießner and Georg Lindemann are Colonel generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army generals of World War II, German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States and Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

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German Cross

The War Order of the German Cross (Der Kriegsorden Deutsches Kreuz), normally abbreviated to the German Cross or Deutsches Kreuz, was instituted by Adolf Hitler on 28 September 1941.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Hans von Funck

Hans von Funck (23 December 1891 – 14 February 1979) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II, who commanded the 7th Panzer Division and the XXXXVII Panzer Corps. Johannes Frießner and Hans von Funck are Recipients of the Gold German Cross and Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

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Imperial German Army

The Imperial German Army (1871–1919), officially referred to as the German Army (Deutsches Heer), was the unified ground and air force of the German Empire.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Iron Cross

The Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz,, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945).

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Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), or simply the Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz), and its variants, were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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LIV Army Corps

The LIV Army Corps (LIV.) was a Wehrmacht army corps during World War II.

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Military Order of St. Henry

The Military Order of St.

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Order of the Crown (Prussia)

The Royal Order of the Crown (Königlicher Kronen-Orden) was a Prussian order of chivalry.

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Otto Hitzfeld

Otto Maximilian Hitzfeld (7 May 1898 – 6 December 1990) was a German general during World War II. Johannes Frießner and Otto Hitzfeld are German Army generals of World War II and German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States.

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Otto Sponheimer

Otto Sponheimer (19 December 1886 – 14 March 1961) was a German general (General of the Infantry) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several corps. Johannes Frießner and Otto Sponheimer are German Army generals of World War II and Recipients of the Gold German Cross.

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Otto Wöhler

Otto Wöhler (12 July 1894 – 5 February 1987) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. Johannes Frießner and Otto Wöhler are German Army generals of World War II, Recipients of the Gold German Cross and Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

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Reichswehr

Reichswehr was the official name of the German armed forces during the Weimar Republic and the first years of the Third Reich.

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Rodion Malinovsky

Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (Родио́н Я́ковлевич Малино́вский, Rodion Yakovych Malynovskyi; – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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Steppe Front

The Steppe Front (Степной фронт) was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War which existed from July to October 1943.

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The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918

The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 (Das Ehrenkreuz des Weltkrieges 1914/1918), commonly referred to as the Hindenburg Cross or the German WWI Service Cross, was established by Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, President of the German Weimar Republic, by an order dated 13 July 1934, to commemorate service of the German people during the First World War.

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Waffen-SS

The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation.

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wound Badge

The Wound Badge (Verwundetenabzeichen) was a German military decoration first promulgated by Wilhelm II, German Emperor on 3 March 1918, which was first awarded to soldiers of the German Army who were wounded during World War I. Between the world wars, it was awarded to members of the German armed forces who fought on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War, 1938–39, and received combat related wounds.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Frießner

Also known as Johannes Freissner, Johannes Freißner, Johannes Friessner.

Johannes Frießner, the Glossary

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Colonel generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht)

Military personnel from Chemnitz

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