Bucher, Wolfgang (Generalmajor)
- Date of birth:
- July 15th, 1898 (Leipzig-Gohlis)
- Date of death:
- February 14th, 1944 (Tscherkassy)
- Buried on:
- German War Cemetery Kiev-Syrez
Grave: UNK. - Nationality:
- German (1933-1945, Third Reich)
Biography
Generalmajor Wolfgang Hermann Eugen Bucher
Promotions:
25.02.1916: Fähnrich
08.03.1917: Leutnant
31.07.1925: Oberleutnant
01.04.1933: Hauptmann
01.08.1936: Major
01.04.1939: Oberstleutnant
01.10.1941: Oberst
20.04.1944: Generalmajor
Career:
25.02.1916: Fähnrich, Zugführer, Infanterie-Regiment 107
01.03.1919: Leutnant, Adjutant, I. Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 107
25.10.1919-15.05.1920: Grenzschütz-Jäger-Regiment 2
01.10.1920: Infanterie-Regiment 10
01.10.1930: training, Stab, 4. Division
01.10.1932: Artillerie-Regiment 7
01.10.1935: Stab, Artillerie-Führer V
07.03.1936: Generalstab, 25. Division
01.10.1936: Major i.G., Kompaniechef, Infanterie-Regiment 119
01.04.1937: Major i.G., Ia, Generalstab, 11. Division
01.09.1939: Oberstleutnant i.G., Ia, Generalstab, I. Armee-Korps
25.09.1940: Oberstleutnant i.G., Oberquartiermeister, 18. Armee
01.03.1942: Oberst i.G., Oberquartiermeister, Heeresgruppe Nord
15.12.1943-19.02.1944: Oberst i.G., Kommandeur, Infanterie-Regiment 417
19.02.1944: Oberst i.G., Kommandeur, Grenadier-Regiment 417, 168. Infanterie-Division, KIA near Tscherkassy
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Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
Ritterkreuz II. Klasse des Königlich Sächsischer Albrechtsordens
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- 1934
- Awarded on:
- 1936
- Awarded on:
- 1936
- Awarded on:
- 1936
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberst im Generalstab (Colonel to the General Staff)
- Unit:
- Oberquartiermeister, Stab, Heeresgruppe Nord
- Awarded on:
- February 14th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberst im Generalstab (Colonel to the General Staff)
- Unit:
- Kdr, Grenadier-Regiment 417, 168. Infanterie-Division
- Awarded on:
- February 23rd, 1944
Sources
- Photo 1:
- Photo: German Officer Biography - Wolfgang Bucher
- - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
- Wolfgang Hermann Eugen Bucher | Gräbersuche-Online
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