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~SOLD~HOLLIDT Karl-Adolf
Generaloberst
Hollidt, Karl-Adolf
* 25.04.1891 Speyer
+ 22.05.1985 Siegen/Westfalen
Awarded Knights Cross: 08.09.1941
as: Generalleutnant Kommandeur 50.InfDiv
Awarded Oakleaves as the 239th Recipient : 17.05.1943 as General der Infanterie
Oberbefehlshaber 6.Armee
Signed Postwar photo measures 4” x 6”
Karl-Adolf Hollidt
Hollidt was born in Speyer, 28 April 1891 . His father was a local secondary school teacher and he was educated in his hometown of Speyer. After finishing school in 1909, he enlisted into an infantry regiment (No.117) in whose third company he was appointed Second Lieutenant in 1910 .
During the First World War, Hollidt served on the Western Front. Over the course of the war he received a total of two promotions: to First Lieutenant in 1915 and in 1918 to the rank of Captain. He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class on September 9, 1914 and the Iron Cross 1st Class on October 18, 1916
After several promotions (to the rank of Major on February 1, 1930 and to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on February 1, 1933, he served as a battalion commander in Infantry Regiment No. 12 in Dessau. Hollidt next served as a Colonel (in the General Staff) in 1935 and as a Chief-of-Staff of the 1st Army Corps in Königsberg. After his appointment as Major-General on April 1, 1938, Hollidt was active as an infantry commander in Siegen. He also commanded Infantry Regiments No. 57, 116 and 136.
At the beginning of World War Two, Hollidt served as a commander of the 52nd Infantry Division. From November 1, 1939, he served as a Chief-of-Staff with Commander-in-Chief Ost, General Blaskowitz. Lieutenant General Hollidt (promoted April 1, 1940) served from October, 1940 as the commander of the 50th Infantry Division in Greece. Promoted to the rank of General der Infanterie (Infantry General), Hollidt commanded XVII Army Corps which was planned to take part in the relief operation concerning the 6th Army, then encircled in the Russian city of Stalingrad. After the surrender of the 6th Army, 6th was reconstituted in March, 1943 and Hollidt was given its command. He was promoted to Colonel General on 1 September 1943.
In 1944, his 6th Army suffered severe losses during its retreat from its area of operations north of the Dnieper. Hollidt was subsequently dismissed from his command and put into reserve.
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