Horst Großmann

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Awards and decorations

Iron Cross (1914)
- 2nd Class (1 October 1914)^[1]
- 1st Class (25 October 1916)^[1]
Wound Badge (1914)
- in Black^[2]
Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg^[2]
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords (12 November 1917)^[2]
Cross for Merit in War (German: Kreuz für Verdienste im Kriege) (Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen)^[2]
Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 in 1934^[2]
Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
- 2nd Class (18 May 1940)^[1]
- 1st Class (28 May 1940)^[1]
Eastern Front Medal^[2]
German Cross in Gold on 11 February 1943 as Generalmajor and commander of the 6.Infanterie-Division^[3]
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
- Knight's Cross on 19 July 1940 as Oberst and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 84^[4]^[5]
- 292nd Oak Leaves on 4 September 1943 as Generalleutnant and commander of the 6. Infanterie-Division^[4]^[6]
German Reich Sports Badge^[2]
Wehrmacht Long Service Award, 4th to 1st class^[2]
Mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht (9 March 1943)^[2]

References

Citations

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Bibliography

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External links

Lexikon der Wehrmacht
World War 2 Awards.com
Horst Großmann @ Axis Biographical Research at the Wayback Machine (archived October 29, 2009)

Military offices
Preceded by Generalleutnant Helge Auleb	Commander of 6. Infanterie Division 25 January 1942 - 16 December 1943	Succeeded by Generalmajor Egon von Neindorff
Preceded by General der Infanterie Friedrich Wiese	Commander of XXXV. Armeekorps January 1944 - February 1944	Succeeded by General der Infanterie Friedrich Wiese
Preceded by General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling	Commander of VI. Armeekorps 11 August 1944 - January 1945	Succeeded by Generalleutnant Ralph Graf von Oriola
Preceded by Generalleutnant Ralph Graf von Oriola	Commander of VI. Armeekorps January 1945 - 8 May 1945	Succeeded by None

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[5] Fellgiebel 2000, p. 204.

[6] Fellgiebel 2000, p. 72.

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v t e Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the 8th Jäger Division (8th Infantry Division)
Stab	Gustav Höhne¹ (Oak Leaves) Rudolf Koch-Erpach Christian Philipp Friedrich-Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach
Infanterie/Jäger-Regiment 28	Erhard Berner Herbert Böhme Karl Hausmann Herbert Kadenbach Erhard Kleindienst Erwin Klose Hugo Lüdcke August Machowsky Max Mecklenburg Johannes Morawietz Joachim Ott Hellmuth Schoen Ernst Wawrok Franz Weber Josef Wiechoczek Kurt Witschel (Oak Leaves)
Infanterie/Jäger-Regiment 38	Rudolf Bornhof Johann-Heinrich Eckhardt² (Oak Leaves) Johann Einfalt Georg Herrmann Alfred Jarosch Arthur Jüttner³ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Gerhard Kollehn Johannes Lawrenz Fritz Müller⁴ (Oak Leaves) Walter Oppermann Alois Prochazka Robert Rahlenbeck Rudolf Roesner Kurt Tiesler Erich Wagner Alois Zepner
Infanterie-Regiment 84	Lothar Berger⁵ (Oak Leaves) Horst Großmann⁶ (Oak Leaves) Friedrich-Wilhelm Proske Erich Ring
Artillerie-Regiment 8	Wilhelm Bürgel Friedrich Filzinger Ewald Koj?
Panzerjäger-Abteilung 8	Eduard Wintershoff
Aufklärungs/Radfahr-Abteilung 8	Waldemar von Knoop Günter Westberg
Pionier-Bataillon 8	Werner Hartmann Arthur Pasternak Rudolf Schön
¹Oak Leaves with Korps "Laux". ²Oak Leaves with the 211th Infantry Division. ³Oak Leaves with Grenadier-Regiment 532 (383rd Infantry Division), Swords with Grenadier-Regiment 164 (62nd Volksgrenadier Division). ⁴Oak Leaves with Grenadier-Regiment 208 (79th Infantry Division). ⁵Oak Leaves with Brigade z.b.V. 100. ⁶Oak Leaves with the 6th Infantry Division. This along with the ? (question mark) indicates doubt regarding the veracity and formal correctness of the listing.

v t e Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the 6th Infantry Division
Stab	Arnold Freiherr von Biegeleben Horst Großmann¹ (Oak Leaves)
Infanterie/Grenadier-Regiment 18	Carl Becker² (Oak Leaves) Stefan-Heinrich Höke Ernst-Martin Rhein Johannes Rompzick Albrecht Schnitger
Infanterie/Grenadier-Regiment 37	Johannes Boje Hermann Hennicke
Infanterie/Grenadier-Regiment 58	Hans-Werner Deppe Heinz Furbach Ferdinand Kuester Hans-Walter Möller
Artillerie-Regiment 6	Franz Schmitzer
Aufklärungs-Abteilung 6	Georg von Boeselager³ (Oak Leaves & Swords)
Pionier-Bataillon 6	Ferdinand Roos
¹Knight's Cross with Infanterie-Regiment 84 (8th Infantry Division). ²Oak Leaves with the 253rd Infanterie-Division. ³ Swords with the 3rd Kavallerie-Brigade.

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