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Grouping of General and Oak Leaf recipient Maximilian Fretter-Pico

Grouping of General and Oak Leaf recipient Maximilian Fretter-Pico

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PERIOD until 1918
COUNTRY Imperial Germany
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LOT 61-0787
PERIOD until 1918
COUNTRY Imperial Germany
EAN 2000000684703
MATERIAL
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PERIOD until 1918
COUNTRY Imperial Germany
LOT 61-0787
MATERIAL
DIMENSIONS
EAN 2000000684703
MAKER
WEIGHT
Imperial Germany


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Family purchased grouping of General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico (1892 - 1984). Recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.

His grouping includes a photo album with countless photos, pictures, and texts including period time and postwar photos and pictures. It is more a family history book then a photo album providing several family trees, information on his military career as well his awards and a lot more!
There are several diaries written by him as well! Furthermore, ID cards as well as letters and other documents.

The grouping includes two postwar citations certifying his award certificates to the Knight's Cross and the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross. 

Please see https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/4617/Fretter-Pico-Maximilian.htm more information on his military career and awards.

After the beginning of the Second World War, this General Command was renamed XXIV Army Corps on 17 September 1939. As part of the Western Campaign, the corps took part in the fighting in France. On 1 March 1941 Maximilian was promoted to major general (German: Generalmajor) and in April of the same year he was briefly transferred to the Führerreserve. On 19 April 1941 he took over as commander of the 97th Light Infantry Division (German: 97. leichte Infanterie-Division). With this unit he fought from the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the attack on the Soviet Union, in the area of Army Group South. On 1 November 1941 the division took the city of Artemovsk and, as a measure for the coming winter, expanded it into a supply and refitting center for the 17th Army. To do this, the division had to bring the city out of range of enemy artillery, which was achieved by further advances to the east and the formation of the Troitskoye-Kalinowo-Kaganowitscha line. Although this line went far beyond the defence capabilities of a division and there was insufficient winter equipment, the division was able to repel enemy attacks by the vastly outnumbered enemy troops throughout December. For the success of his division, Fretter-Pico was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 27 December 1941 and he was then entrusted the leadership of the XXX. Army Corps. On 15 January 1942 he was promoted to lieutenant general (German: Generalleutnant) and on 1 June 1942 to general of the artillery (German: General der Artillerie) and thus commanding general of the corps (German: Kommandierender General des Korps). In the winter of 1942/43, Fretter-Pico led the Fretter-Pico army division (German: Armeeabteilung Fretter-Pico), which was temporarily formed from his corps, and then again the XXX. Army Corps. At the beginning of July 1944 he was briefly reassigned to the Führerreserve in order to take over command of the 6th Army in the middle of the month, which was destroyed a little later during the Soviet Jassy-Kishinev operation and then had to be reorganised. Due to the subordination of the Hungarian 2nd and 3rd Army, it was temporarily referred to as the Army Group Fretter-Pico (German: Armeegruppe Fretter-Pico). This formation took part in the Battle of Debrecen, from 6 to 29 October 1944. On 23 December 1944 he gave up his command and was z. b. V. of the Army High Command. This put him on 25 March 1945 as an assessor in the court martial in Torgau against the General der Panzertruppe Walter Fries. Contrary to Hitler's express order, Fries had given up the city of Warsaw, which had been declared a fortress (German: Festung), and had the German troops withdrawn. The trial ended on 30 March 1945 with Fries' acquittal and Fretter-Pico was appointed commander of military district IX, based in Kassel (German: Wehrkreis IX (Kassel)), this being his last command. There he was taken prisoner by the US Army on 22 April 1945 being released in mid-1947.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Fretter-Pico

 


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