Thomaschki, Siegfried Paul Leonhard
- Date of birth:
- March 20th, 1894 (Miswalde/East-Prussia, Germany)
- Date of death:
- May 31st, 1967 (Bad Neuenahr/Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
Promotions:
04.03.1913: Fahnenjunker - 2. Ostpreußisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 52
20.06.1914: Leutnant - Ordonanz-Offizier - I. Abteilung Ostpreus. Feld-Art.Rgt.52
16.09.1917: Oberleutnant - Batterieführer - 1. Batterie - Ostpreus. Feld-Art.Rgt.52
01.08.1925: Hauptmann - Regimentsadjutant - 1. (Preuß.) Artillerie-Regiment - Königsberg
01.05.1934: Major - Regimentsstab - 1. (Preuß.) Artillerie-Regiment - Königsberg
01.10.1936: Oberstleutnant - Kommandeur - II. Abt.Art.-Reg.11 in Lötzen
01.08.1939: Oberst - Kommandeur - Artillerie-Regiment 3 // Artillerie-Kommandeur 123 (Arko 123)
01.03.1942: Generalmajor - Kommandeur - 11. Infanterie-Division
01.01.1943: Generalleutnant - Höheren Artillerie-Kommandeur 303 (HArko 303) // "Kampfgruppe Thomaschki"
01.03.1945: General der Artillerie - Kommandeur - X. Armeekorps
Siegfried Paul Leonhard Thomaschki commanded the 11. Infanterie Division and X. Armeekorps during World War II.
He was captured by Soviet troops on 8 May 1945 in the Courland Pocket, he was liberated in 1955.
Siegfried Thomaschki was the third child of Paul Thomaschki, an East Prussian theologian, and his wife Elisabeth, née Schucht. Like his father he was a member of Corps Masovia Königsberg.
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1939 Spange zum Eisernes Kreuz 2er Klasse 1914
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberst (Colonel)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur des Artillerieregiments 3
- Awarded on:
- October 6th, 1939
Had already received the Iron Cross 2nd Class on November 31st 1914.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberst (Colonel)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur des Artillerieregiments 3
- Awarded on:
- December 18th, 1939
Had already received the Iron Cross 1st Class on January 27th 1917.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberst (Colonel)
- Unit:
- Artillerie-Kommandeur 123
- Awarded on:
- December 19th, 1941
Award 33/6
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalmajor (Brigadier)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur 11.Infanterie-Division / XXVIII.Armee-Korps / 18.Armee / Heeresgruppe Nord
- Awarded on:
- November 1st, 1942
1291st Award.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalleutnant (Major-general)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur 11. Infanterie-Division / XXVI. Armee-Korps / 18. Armee / Heeresgruppe Nord
- Awarded on:
- September 11th, 1943
299th Award.
Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Rank:
- Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
- Awarded on:
- November 31st, 1914
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Rank:
- Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
- Awarded on:
- January 27th, 1917
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- I./ 2. Ostpreußisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 52
- Awarded on:
- December 2nd, 1914
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Chef - 1./ I./ 2. Ostpreußisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 52
- Awarded on:
- September 17th, 1918
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Major
- Awarded on:
- 1934
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalmajor (Brigadier)
- Unit:
- Kdr 11. Inf.Div.
- Awarded on:
- July 26th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalleutnant (Major-general)
- Awarded on:
- February 12th, 1944
Militärverdienstkreuz III. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- March 22nd, 1916
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- May 27th, 1927
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberst (Colonel)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur des Artillerieregiments 3
- Awarded on:
- November 1st, 1940
Kriegserinnerungsmedaille
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1: Wilco Vermeer
- Photo: Wilco Vermeer collection, the Netherlands
- General der Artillerie Siegfried Thomaschki
- - THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GüNTER, Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945, Biblio-Verlag, 1998.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
- Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer, Elite of the Third Reich - The Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-45: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, England, 2003
- Buxa, W., Weg und Schicksal der 11. Infanterie-Division, Nebel Verlag GmbH, Eggolsheim, Deutschland, 2004
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