on May 4, 1945. Decorations Pour le Mérite: April 21, 1918 Knight's Cross of the Prussian House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords: October 8, 1917 Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class 1st Class Mecklenburg-Schwerin Military Merit Cross 2nd Class 1st Class Wound Badge in Silver Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 NSDAP Service Decoration in Bronze SS-Ehrenring War Merit Cross with Swords 2nd Class: December 24, 1940 1st Class: September 1, 1943 See also List SS-Brigadeführer References External link 1878 births 1945 deaths German Army personnel of World War I Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class) Sturmabteilung officers Officials of Nazi Germany SS-Brigadeführer German Army personnel killed in World War II Major generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht) People from Gotha (town) People from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha German Army generals of World War II Military personnel from Thuringia