Christian Usinger | |
Birth Date: | 21 August 1894 |
Death Place: | POW camp at Shuya, Soviet Union |
Allegiance: | |
Branch: | Army |
Rank: | Generalleutnant |
Commands: | I Army Corps |
Battles: | Courland Pocket |
Awards: | Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross |
Christian Usinger (21 August 1894 – 2 April 1949) was a German general during World War II who commanded the I Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Usinger surrendered to the Soviet Forces in 1945 in the Courland Pocket. He died in a POW camp in the Soviet Union in early 1949.
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