Christian Usinger Explained

Christian Usinger
Birth Date:21 August 1894
Death Place:POW camp at Shuya, Soviet Union
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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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Bibliography

. Walther-Peer Fellgiebel . 2000 . 1986 . Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile . The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches . German . Friedberg, Germany . Podzun-Pallas . 978-3-7909-0284-6.

Notes and References

  1. Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 484.
  2. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 428.