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Kurt Wilhelm Gustav Erdmann von der Chevallerie (23 December 1891 – missing as of 18 April 1945) was a highly decorated General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War who commanded the German 1st Army. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, which, especially its higher grade Oak Leaves, was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Kurt von der Chevallerie retired from the Army on 31 January 1945 and disappeared on 18 April 1945 near Kolberg. On 18 December 1918 he married Dorothea Zander (born May 3, 1895 in Rybnik, Province of Silesia; † 14 October 1957 in Göttingen, West Germany), the daughter of the Privy Council Medical MD Rudolf Zander and Charlotte Eiss. Married in Berlin, the couple had a son, Hans-Rudolf (Lieutenant, killed in 1940) and three daughters. ==Awards and decorations== * Iron Cross (1914) * * 2nd Class (1 October 1914)〔Thomas (1997), p. 98〕 * * 1st Class (12 December 1915)〔 * Austria-Hungary Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with War Decoration (1917)〔Thomas & Wegmann (1998), p. 28〕 * Wound Badge * * in Black (3 March 1918)〔 * Cross of Honour of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords (22 July 1918)〔 * Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 (1935)〔 * Wehrmacht Long Service Award 4th to 1st Class (2 October 1936) * Sudetenland Medal * Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) * * 2nd Class (12 June 1940)〔 * * 1st Class (12 June 1940)〔 * Commanders Cross of the Hungarian Kingly Order of Merit (12 February 1939)〔 * Grand Commanders of the Order of the Crown of Italy (27 August 1940)〔 * Eastern Front Medal (1 September 1942)〔 * Wound Badge (1939) * * in Black (16 January 1943)〔 * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves * * Knight's Cross on 23 October 1941 as ''Generalleutnant'' and commander of the 99th Light Infantry Division〔Fellgiebel (2000), p. 130〕 * * 357th Oak Leaves on 19 December 1943 as ''General of the Infantry'' and commander of LIX Army Corps〔Fellgiebel (2000), p. 65〕 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「Kurt von der Chevallerie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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