History and chronology of Fritz Erich von Manstein in Germany

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Military
World War, 2nd

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Arrest
Barbarossa
Battle Kharkov
Battle Kiev
Battle Korsun
Battle Pavlograd
Battle Sevastopol
Battle Stalingrad
Birth
Capture Belgorod
Capture Demyansk
Capture Torzhok
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Commander
Crossing River Dnieper
Crossing River Dvina
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Field Marshal
Invasion Crimea
Invasion France
Invasion Poland
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Siege Dvinsk
Siege Sevastopol
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Sevastopol
Stalingrad
Torzhok

Fritz Erich von Manstein History of Germany


1887	Birth
24th Nov Birth of Fritz Erich von Manstein
1936	Chief of Operations
Appointed Chief of Operations
1936	Major
Appointed Major-General
1939	Invasion of Poland
Chief of Staff to the Army Group South under General Gerd von Rundstedt
1940	Invasion of France
Ardennes Hitler approves of the Manstein Plan to invade France
Ardennes Manstein & his colleagues suggest the German Army should attack through the wooded Ardennes hills
Manstein serves under General Gunther von Kluge
Works with Guenther Blumentritt & Henning von Tresckow to develop the plan to invade France
1940	Manstein
Ardennes Hitler approves of the Manstein Plan to invade France
1940	Manstein Plan
Ardennes Hitler approves of the Manstein Plan to invade France
1941	Barbarossa
22nd June Serves under General Erich Hoepner
1941	Capture of Demyansk
July Demyansk Manstein captures Demyansk
1941	Capture of Torzhok
July Torzhok Manstein captures Torzhok
1941	Commander
Appointed Commander of the 56th Panzer Corps
11th Sep Appointed Commander of the 11th Army
1941	Crossing River Dvina
3rd July River Dvina Cross es the River Dvina on the way to Leningrad
1941	Invasion of Crimea
11th Sep Crimea Manstein is given the task of capturing the Crimea
1941	Siege of Dvinsk
24th June Dvinsk Manstein captures the bridges at Dvinsk
1942	Battle of Sevastopol
2nd July Sevastopol Manstein captures Sevastopol
1942	Battle of Stalingrad
12th Dec Stalingrad Manstein is 30 miles away from Stalingrad
12th Dec Stalingrad Sets the Panzers rolling to relieve Paulus ' trapped 6th Army
1942	Field Marshal
July Appointed Field Marshal
27th Nov Has the task of supporting Paulus , given 1 Luftwaffe, 4 panzer & 6 infantry divisions
1942	Invasion of Crimea
2nd July Crimea Manstein captures Sevastopol
1942	Siege of Sevastopol
2nd July Sevastopol Manstein captures Sevastopol
1942	Winter Storm
21st Dec Myshkova Blocked on the Myshkova by the 2nd Guards Army, the German 6th Army cannot break out
21st Dec Stalingrad Leads Opeartion Winter Storm to support Field Marshal Paulus
1943	Battle of Kharkov
22nd Aug Kharkov Authorized by Hitler to withdraw from Kharkov
1943	Battle of Kiev
6th Nov Kiev The Russians capture Kiev
1943	Battle of Pavlograd
20th Feb Pavlograd Destroys the 3rd Soviet Tank Army
1943	Capture of Belgorod
5th Aug Belgorod The Russians capture Belgorod, threatning Kharkov
1943	Crossing River Dnieper
21st Sep River Dnieper Commands 750,000 Axis troops back across the Dnieper at Kanev
1943	Retreat
15th Dec River Dnieper Manstein persuades Hitler to order a retreat behind the River Dnieper
1944	Battle of Korsun
24th Jan Korsun 60,000 Germans are caught in a trap
24th Jan Korsun Orders an immediate counter-attack to releive the "Korsun pocket"
1944	Dismissal
Dismissed by Hitler
1945	Arrest
Arrrested by the British & held until 1953
1973	Death
July Death of Fritz Erich von Manstein