Oskar Munzel Explained

Oskar Munzel
Birth Date:	13 March 1899
Birth Place:	Grimmen, German Empire
Death Place:	Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany
Allegiance:
Branch:	Army
Serviceyears:	1917–45 1956–62
Rank:	Generalmajor (Wehrmacht) Generalmajor (Bundeswehr)
Commands:	14th Panzer Division 2nd Panzer Division
Battles:	World War II
Awards:	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Oskar Munzel (13 March 1899 – 1 January 1992) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II and in the Bundeswehr of West Germany who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. After the war, he served as a military advisor in Egypt, and then he joined the Bundeswehr in 1956 and retired in 1962. Munzel then acted as the Chief Advisor of Ming-teh-Gruppe (German Military Advisory Group) in Taiwan for the Republic of China Armed Forces before returning to Germany.^{[1] [2]}

Awards and decorations

• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 16 October 1944 as Oberst and commander of 14. Panzer-Division^[3]
• Federal Cross of Merit

References

Bibliography

• Book: Fellgiebel , Walther-Peer . 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.
• Web site: 2013 . Chiang Kai-shek's Secret Military Advisers Unveiled . Stanford, California . Hoover Institution.
• Book: Wang , Yue-che . 2007 . German Military Advisors in Taiwan 1963-1975 (明德專案 : 德國軍事顧問在台工作史實) . Chinese . Taipei, Taiwan . Transoxania Publishing Corp . 9789574146543.

Notes and References

1. Hoover Institution 2013.
2. Wang 2007.
3. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 262.