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Martin Wandel

Field	Value
name	Martin Wandel
birth_date	15 April 1892
death_date
death_place
allegiance	Nazi Germany
branch	Army
serviceyears
rank	General of the Artillery (Posthumously)
commands	121st Infantry Division
XXIV Panzer Corps
battles
awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

NOTOC XXIV Panzer Corps

World War II

Siege of Leningrad
Battle of Stalingrad--

Martin Wandel (15 April 1892 – went missing 14 January 1943) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Wandel went Missing in action on 14 January 1943 when his command post was overrun in part of the encirclement in the Battle of Stalingrad. He was declared dead by a court in Berlin in 1948.

Awards

Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918
Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class and 1st Class---
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 23 November 1941 as Generalmajor and commander of 121. Infanterie-Division

References

Citations

Bibliography

{{Cite book |orig-date=1986 |trans-title=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

before=Generalleutnant Otto Lancelle| after=General der Infanterie Helmuth Prieß| title=Commander of 121. Infanterie-Division| years=8 July 1941 - 11 November 1942 before=General der Panzertruppe Otto von Knobelsdorff| after=Generalleutnant Arno Jahr| title=Commander of XXIV. Panzerkorps| years=30 November 1942 - 14 January 1943

References

Fellgiebel 2000, p. 353.

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