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Karl Eibl

Field	Value
name	Karl Eibl
birth_date
death_date
birth_place	Bad Goisern, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary
death_place	Kravzoka, Soviet Union
image	Eibl.jpg
image_size	130px
allegiance	Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary (to 1918)
Austria First Austrian Republic (to 1938)
Nazi Germany
branch	Army (Wehrmacht)
serviceyears	1914–43
rank	General of the Infantry (posthumously)
commands	385th Infantry Division
awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords

NOTOC{{Infobox military person Austria First Austrian Republic (to 1938) Nazi Germany

World War I
World War II
- Invasion of Poland
- Operation Barbarossa

Karl Eibl (23 July 1891 – 21 January 1943) was an Austrian general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. He also served in World War 1 as an officer in the Austrian Landwehrregiment 21.

Eibl was killed north-west of Rossosch on 21 January 1943, during the chaotic retreat forced by the Russian offensive, Operation Little Saturn, when Italian soldiers mistook his command vehicle for a Soviet armored car and blew it up with hand grenades. There is a memorial monument dedicated to him in the city park of Krems, Austria. However, the causes on the death of EIbl are still controversary. According to References sourced from "General Nasci's daily reports and bulletins of the Italian Alpinjaeger corps in Russia", the General Eibl was killed on the night of 21 January 1943 because he was blown up on an unexploded bomb. The explosion wounded him in a foot and later on, he was transported to a casualty collection point in the village Krawzowka (or Kravzoka), northwest of Rossosh, where he underwent the amputation of his foot; he died.

Awards

Military Merit Cross, 3rd Class with War Decoration
Military Merit Medals in Silver and Bronze
Karl Troop Cross
Wound Medal (Austria-Hungary)
Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd Class with War Decoration and Swords --
Infantry Assault Badge
Wound Badge (1939) in Black
Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (23 September 1939) & 1st Class (5 November 1939)
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
- Knight's Cross on 15 August 1940 as Oberstleutnant and commander of the III./Infanterie-Regiment 131
- Oak Leaves on 31 December 1941 as Oberst and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 132
- Swords on 19 December 1942 as Generalmajor and commander of 385. Infanterie-Division

References

Citations

Bibliography

{{Cite book |trans-title=With Oak Leaves and Swords. The Highest Decorated Soldiers of the Second World War
Mitcham, Samuel W. (2007). Rommel's Desert Commanders — The Men Who Served the Desert Fox, North Africa, 1941–42. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. .
{{Cite book |trans-title=The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives
{{Cite book |trans-title=The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 1: A–K

References

(1916). "Verordnungs-blatt des Königlich bayerischen Kriegsministeriums".
Mitcham 2007, p. 89.
Marco Sigg: Der Unterführer als Feldherr im Taschenformat. Theorie and Praxis der Auftragstaktik im deutschen Heer 1869 bis 1945. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-78086-7, S. 268
Berger 1999, p. 68.
Thomas 1997, p. 148.
Scherzer 2007, p. 290.

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