SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS: 1 October 1941 SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS: 1 August 1944 Decorations Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st Class Bavarian Military Merit Order 4th Class with Swords Albert Order 1st Class with Swords Friedrich Order 1st Class with Swords Frederickscross House Order of Hohenzollern Austrian Order of the Iron Crown 3rd Class with war decoration (11 July 1918) Wound Badge in Silver (9 May 1942) Clasp to the Iron Cross (2nd Class & 1st Class) Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords Knight's Cross on 8 August 1941 as commander of SS Division Das Reich Oak Leaves on 28 July 1943 as commanding general of the SS Panzer Corps Swords on 26 August 1944 as commander of the 7th Army Works Hausser authored two books: Waffen-SS im Einsatz (Waffen SS in Action), : Göttingen (1953) Soldaten wie andere auch (Soldiers Like Any Other), Munin Verlag: Osnabrück (1966) Hausser's operational study on the 7th Army is included in the following volume: Fighting the Breakout: The German Army in Normandy from COBRA to the Falaise Gap (contributor) (2004). Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. References Citations Bibliography External links 1880 births 1972 deaths People from Brandenburg an der Havel People from the Province of Brandenburg German Army personnel of World War I Prussian Army personnel Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Burials at Munich Waldfriedhof Lieutenant generals of the Reichswehr Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st class Waffen-SS personnel 20th-century Freikorps personnel Historical negationism Military personnel from Brandenburg Members of HIAG