Generals - Born On This Day. Add Your Own.

Born on the 3rd March were:

Soviet Major-General Vasilii Ivanovich Kozlov 1903
Soviet Major-General Gerasim Vasilevich Mukhin in 1900
Soviet Major-General of Veterinary Services Iosif Vasilevich Shur in 1895
Soviet Major-General of Medical Services Iosif Isaakovich Stavitskii in 1902
Soviet Lieutenant-General Vasilii Grigorevich Terentev in 1897
US General Matthew Bunker Ridgway in 1895
Yugoslav Brigadier-General Đorđe N. Dedinac in 1891

Born yesterday the 4th March were:

Soviet Major-General Timofei Vladimirovich Dedeoglu in 1898
Soviet Colonel-General Vasilii Vasilevich Glagolev in 1896
Soviet Lieutenant-General Timofei Amvrosievich Strokach in 1905
US Major-General George Veazey Strong in 1880

Born on this day 5th March were:

British Brigadier Miles Richard Smeeton in 1906
Soviet Major-General Konstantin Vasilevich Kashnikov in 1903

 

Born on this day the 6th March:

Belgian Lieutenant-General L.D.P.F.J. Bievez in 1889
Belgian Lieutenant-General R.J.L.M.A. Van der Hofstadt in 1884
Soviet Major-General of Quartermaster Service Lazarii Izrailevich Berenzov in 1898
Soviet Major-General Fedor Aleksandrovich Bobrov in 1898
Soviet Marshal of Artillery Georgii Fedorvich Odintsov in 1900
Soviet Major-General of Tank Troops Boris Ivanovich Shneider in 1908
US General Isaac Davis White in 1901

 

Born on this day the 7th March:

Soviet Lieutenant-General Vladimir Nikolaevich Bogatkin in 1903
Soviet Major-General Veniamin Oganesovich Galstian in 1902
Soviet Lieutenant-General Vladimir Nikolaevich Lvov in 1897
US Brigadier-General Edmund Wilson Searby in 1896

It has been a while since other has posted in this thread, so I would like to know whether it is still interesting? I also want to say that if other got birthdays on other generals please share them. It would one less that I have to track down.

 

Born on this day the 11th March:

Polish General Edward Rydz-Smigly in 1886

 

Thanks Marek. This also made me aware of a typo that I have made. Somehow I have written that he was born in 1881.

Just to bring us up to speed this is the generals born these last days:

Born on the 8th of March were

Soviet Colonel-General Aleksei Ivanovich Baksov in 1907
Soviet Colonel-General Aleksandr Iliich Rodimtsev in 1905
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Medical Service Vladimir Ivanovich Voiachek in 1876
US Major-General Charles Andrew Willioughby in 1892
Yugoslav Brigadier-General Milan A. Damjanović in 1889

Born on the 9th of March were:

Soviet Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops Aleksei Osipovich Akhmanov in 1897
Soviet Lieutenant-General Vasilii Vasilevich Osokin in 1894
US Major-General Frank Seymoure Ross in 1893

Born on the 10th of March were:

Soviet Colonel-General of Engineering Troops Zhosif Iakovlevich Kotin in 1908
US Brigadier-General Norman Randolph in 1891
Yugoslav Major-General Ladislav Ambrožič-Novljan in 1908

Other generals born on the 11th of March were:

Soviet Lieutenant-General Mikhail Grigorevich Efremov in 1897
Soviet Major-General Ivan Grigorevich Lenchik in 1902
US Brigadier-General George Wesley Sliney in 1889

Born on this day the 12th of March were:

Lithuanian Brigadier-General Viktoras Giedrys in 1894
Soviet Major-General Vladimir Borisovich Borisov in 1902
US Brigadier-General Robert William Strong in 1890
Yugoslav Major-General Milivoje Dj. Alimpić in 1884

 

Born on this day 13th of March were:

Belgian Lieutenant-General Raoul-Leon-Camille-Joseph Baron de Hennin de Boussu-Walcourt in 1879
French Lieutenant-General Charles-Georges-Antoine Delestraint in 1878
Soviet Major-General of Technical-Engineering Service Valentin Ivanovich Kovalenkov in 1884
Soviet Major-General of Medical Services Aleksei Aleksandrovich Zavarzin in 1885
US Brigadier-General Stephen Huntting Sherrill in 1893

 

Born on this day the 14th of March were:

Italian Lieutenant-General Pietro Maravigna in 1876
Soviet Colonel-General Konstatin Vasilevich Krainiukov in 1902
US Brigadier-General Palph Pulsifer in 1903
US Major-General Thomas Matthews Robins in 1881

 

Born on this day the 15th of March were:

Lithuanian Brigader-General Kazys Skučas in 1894
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Medical Services Arsenii Iakovlevich Barabanov in 1901
Soviet Major-General Dmitrii Feoktisovich Dremin in 1895
US Major-General William Nichols Porter in 1886
US Major-General Robert Oliver Shoe in 1893

 

Born yesterday on the 16th of March were:

Belgian Lieutenant-General I.I.L.N. Gérard in 1889
Soviet Major-General of Artillery-Engineering Service Fedor Fedorovich Petrov in 1902
Soviet Colonel-General Pavel Ivanovich Zyrianov in 1907
US Brigadier-General Lewis Tenney Ross in 1896
US Brigadier-General Hugh Williamson Rowan in 1894

Born on this day the 17th of March were:

Soviet Marshal of Soviet Union Lavrentii Pavlovich Beriia in 1899
Soviet Major-General Iakov Alekseevich Doronin in 1900
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Tank-Engineering Service Aleksei Adamovich Goregliad in 1905
Soviet Major-General Pavel Grigorevich Ponedelin in 1898
Soviet Lieutenant-General Aleksei Gordeevich Selivanov in 1900
Soviet Major-General Aleksei Pavlovich Sharagin in 1897
Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops Makar Fomich Terekhin in 1896
US Brigadier-General Robert Clive Rodgers in 1887
US Brigadier-General James Stevenson Rodwell in 1896
US Brigadier-General Leonard Henderson Sims in 1895
Yugoslav Major-General Đorđe R. Arandjelović in 1884

 

Born on this day the 18th of March were:

Soviet Lieutenant-General of Engineering Troops Aleksandr Iakovlevich Kaliagin in 1900
Soviet Lieutenant-General Vasilii Afanasevich Khomenko in 1899
Soviet Major-General Teodor Sergeevich Kulakov in 1900

 

Born on this day the 19th March were:

Belgian Lieutenant-General J.E.J. Michilet in 1880
Italian Marshal of Italy Emilio De Bono in 1866
Soviet Major-General of Artillery Leonid Alekseevich Kolotilov in 1895
Soviet Lieutenant-General Ivan Stepanovich Kosobutskii in 1895
Soviet Major-General of Signal Troops Marek Aronovich Plotkin in 1904
US General Joseph Warren Stilwell 1883
US General James Alward Van Fleet in 1892

 

Born on this day the 20th March were:

Belgian Major-General F.E. Tromme in 1891

 

Born on this day the 21st March were:

Belgian Lieutenant-General C.E. Boulouffe in 1889
Belgian Lieutenant-General Maurice H.R. Delvoie in 1885
Soviet Army General Aleksandr Vasilevich Gorbatov in 1891
US Brigadier-General Thomas Sherman Timberman in 1900
US General Willard Gordon Wyman in 1898

 

Born on the 22nd of March were:

Japanese General Koiso Kuniaki in 1880
Soviet Lieutenant-General Ivan Prokofevich Alferov in 1898
Soviet Colonel-General of Artillery Vladimir Davidovich Grendal in 1884
Soviet Major-General Vasilii Ivanovich Kozhanov in 1904
Soviet Major-General Vladimir Nikolaevich Martsinkevich in 1896
Soviet Lieutenant-General Nikolai Ivanovich Zheleznikov in 1906
Soviet Major-General Viktor Grigorevich Zholudev in 1905

 

Born on this day the 23rd of March were:

French General Pierre Hering in 1874
Soviet Colonel-General of Artillery Leonid Iustinovich Kozhukhov in 1903
Soviet Army General Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Luchinskii in 1900
Soviet Major-General of Quartermaster Service Vasilii Vasilevich Vasiliev in 1897
Soviet Lieutenant-General Iakov Stepanovich Vorobev in 1900
US Brigadier-General Charles Merville Spofford in 1902

 

Born on this day the 24th March were:

Belgian Major-General M.P.J. Flameng in 1889
Soviet Lieutenant-General Nikolai Aleksandrovich Gagen in 1895

 

Born on this day the 25th March were:

French Lieutenant-General Amédée-Ferdinand-Auguste Blanc in 1880
Soviet Marshal of Soviet Union Semen Mikhailovich Budennii in 1883
Soviet Lieutenant-General Kondrat Semenovich Melnik in 1900
Soviet Lieutenant-General Nikolai Nikolaevich Nikishin in 1896
US Brigadier-General Albert Clinton Stanford in 1895

 

Born on this day the 26th of March were:

French General Paul-Louis-Victor-Marie Legentilhomme in 1884
Soviet Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops Mikhail Lvovich Cherniavskii in 1899
Soviet Lieutenant-General Aleksei Aleksandrovich Grechkin in 1893
Soviet Lieutenant-General Ivan Petrovich Koriazin in 1901
Soviet Major-General of Tank Troops Aleksandr Iliich Liziukov in 1900

 

Hi Steen,

Do you have any info on the numbers of German Generals killed during WW2?

There has been a figure of over 900.

Do you disagree or concur?

 

Spidge,

It depends on how you define "killed": is it KIAs? And how do you define a KIA? Do you include MIAs, deaths related to battle stress and accidents? The list could be long and it of course also depends on who you count as generals: Do you include W-SS officers, Police and officials of the Ministries with ranks equivalent to generals.

Anyhow in my understanding of "killed" then the number 900 is too high, because it includes those who died following the war as POWs or as a result of being condemned to death for war crimes.

According to this source: Josef Folttmann and Hanns Möller-Witten: Opfergang der Generale : die Verluste der Generale und Admirale und der im gleichen Dienstrang stehenden sonstigen Offiziere und Beamten im Zweiten Weltkrieg Then the numbers is listed as such:

Heer – H
Luftwaffe – L
Marine – M
Waffen-SS – W
Polizei – P
Total – T

KIAs
H: 223
L: 20
M: 18
W: 19
P: 9__
T: 289

Accidents
H: 30
L: 15
M: 4
W: 9
P: -__
T: 52

Suicides
H: 64
L: 16
M: 11
W: 12
P: 7__
T: 110

Executed by the Germans
H: 20
L: -
M: 1
W: 1
P: -__
T: 22

Executed by the Allies
H: 33
L: 4
M: -
W: 16
P: 5__
T: 58

Died as POWs
H: 128
L: 27
M: 16
W: 4
P: 13__
T 188

Died of health problems
H: 145
L: 25
M: 20
W: 3
P: 3__
T: 196

MIAs
H: 32
L: 6
M: 3
W: 5
P: 2__
T: 48

Total
H: 675
L: 113
M: 73
W: 69
P: 39
T: 969

Now these numbers is from June 1952, and there came a second and revised edition in 1954 but as I remember the number didn't change that much. However there were still a number of POWs in SU who died before the release in 1956 of all German prisoners.

The number regarding the army generals mentioned in French Maclean's Quite flows the Rhine. German General officer casualties in WWII from 1996 is the same. But then of course he has used the above mentioned as source.

Before people get carried away by these numbers I would like to mention that within the same period 1939-1952 the SU lost 680 generals (or equivalents) with 245 as KIAs. So Germany wasn't the country where the toll was heavy on this cast. (Source: a search in my incomplete database)

I hope you find this useful.