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|branch= |serviceyears= |rank=''Generalleutnant'' |commands= |unit= |battles= * World War I: * *Eastern Front * *Italian Front * World War II: * *Invasion of Poland * *Battle of France * *North African Campaign * *Eastern Front * *World War II in Yugoslavia |awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves Order of the Iron Crown 3rd Class (Austria-Hungary) Military Merit Cross 3rd Class (Austria-Hungary) Military Merit Medal for Bravery in Silver and bar (Austria-Hungary) |laterwork=}} Johann Mickl (18 April 1893 – 10 April 1945) was an Austrian-born ''Generalleutnant'' and division commander in the German Army during World War II, and was one of only 882 recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He was commissioned shortly before the outbreak of World War I, and served with Austro-Hungarian forces on the Eastern and Italian Fronts as company commander in the Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops. During World War I he was decorated several times for bravery and leadership, and was wounded on several occasions, finishing the war as an ''Oberleutnant''. Immediately after the war, Mikl served in the ''Volkswehr'' militia which was formed to resist the incorporation of his home town of Radkersburg into the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He served with the Austrian Army from 1920 until the ''Anchluss'' in 1938, when it was absorbed by the Wehrmacht, and he transferred to the German Army as an ''Oberstleutnant''. He commanded an anti-tank battalion during the invasion of Poland and Battle of France, during which he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class, and was promoted to ''Oberst''. Through the intervention of a friend, the adjutant of ''Generalleutnant'' Erwin Rommell, under whose command he had served in France, Mickl was transferred to North Africa to command a rifle regiment. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his leadership of a ''kampfgruppe'' during the Battle of Sidi Rezegh, during which he and 800 of his soldiers were captured by New Zealand troops. Two days later he precipitated a successful mass escape from a prisoner of war collection point. He briefly commanded the 90th Light ''Afrika'' Division in late 1941 before being wounded. After he recovered he was sent to the Eastern Front. Mickl commanded the 12th Rifle Brigade of the 12th Panzer Division in the east, taking over the 25th ''Panzergrenadier'' Regiment when his brigade headquarters was disestablished. Transferred to the ''Führerreserve'', he was promoted to ''Generalmajor'', and received the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his outstanding commitment and leadership during the Soviet 1942–43 winter offensives around Rzhev. He then commanded the 11th Panzer Division during the Battle of Kursk. Later in 1943, he was appointed to train and command the 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division, and led it in fighting against the Yugoslav Partisans before dying of wounds inflicted in the last month of the war. In 1967, the Austrian ''Bundesheer'' barracks in Bad Radkersburg were named after him. ==Early life and career== Mickl was born Johann Mikl in Zelting, Radkersburg, which was part of the Duchy of Styria within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father Mathias was a German farmer from Terbegofzen, and his mother Maria (née Dervarič), was from Zelting, and of at least partially Slovene heritage. Mikl had a twin brother, Alois, who was killed in action in 1915 in Galicia near Lemberg, present-day Lviv in the Ukraine. As a child, Mikl spoke German, Slovene and Hungarian, and remained fluent in all three throughout his life. After entering a cadet school in Vienna in the Imperial-Royal Landwehr in 1908, he was accepted at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt in 1911. Described as slim, muscular, and tall, ''Leutnant'' Mikl graduated on 1 August 1914 and was posted to the recently mobilised 4th Imperial-Royal Landwehr Infantry Regiment (LIR 4), which formed part of the Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johann Mickl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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