History and chronology of Lothar Rendulic in Austria

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Supreme Commander
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Lothar Rendulic History of Austria


1887	Birth
23rd Oct Vienna Born in Wiener Neustadt
1910	Second Lieutenant
Vienna Appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 99th Imperial & Royal Infantry Regiment
1914	Regimental Adjutant Rendulic
Vienna Appointed Regimental Adjutant in the 99th Imperial & Royal Infantry Regiment
1918	Captain
Appointed Captain
1925	Major
Vienna Appointed Major in the General Staff Academy
1933	Colonel
Vienna Appointed Colonel in the General Staff Academy
1938	Chief of Staff
Vienna Appointed Chief-of-Staff in the XVII Army Corps after the Anschluss with Germany
1939	Invasion of Poland
Vienna Joins in the invasion of Poland after the XVII Army Corps is transferred to Silesia
1940	Barbarossa
22nd June Vienna Participates from the beginning of operation Barbarossa
26th June Vienna Crosses into Russia
16th July Vienna Drives Soviet Divisions back to the Dnieper
1940	Commander
Vienna Appointed Commander of the 14th Infantry Division for the invasion of France
Vienna Appointed Commander of the 52nd Infantry Division
1940	Invasion of Russia
22nd June Vienna Participates from the beginning of operation Barbarossa
26th June Vienna Crosses into Russia
16th July Vienna Drives Soviet Divisions back to the Dnieper
1942	Award
Vienna Awarded the Kinight's Cross of the Iron Cross
1942	Citadel
11th July River Orel Defends the 2nd Army at the River Orel against Russian counter-attack
13th July River Ssush In 2 days destroys 100 Russian tanks & holds an important sector near the Ssush River
18th July The Russians are driven back, 300 Russian tanks destroyed
18th July The Soviet High Command, Stavka, try to break Rendulic's defenses with 400 tanks
19th July Orel The Russian fail to take Orel
19th July The Russians launch a 3rd attack against Rendulic but are drive back
1942	Commander
Vienna Appointed Commander of the XXXV Corps
1943	Commander
Appointed Commander of Western Balkans, quickly crushes Tito's partisans
1943	Invasion of Yugoslavia
Prevents the British 8th Army from landing on the Adriatic
1943	Medal
15th Sep Awarded the Oak Leaf to the Knight's Cross by Adolf Hitler
1944	Commander
Appointed Commander of the 20th Gebirgs Army in the Arctic Circle
1944	Diplomacy
3rd Sep The Finns give Germany 14 days to evacuate an army of 250,000
1944	Northern Lights
Evacuates Finland in 14 days, required by the armistice between Finland & Russia
1944	Occupation
Evacuates Finland in 14 days, required by the armistice between Finland & Russia
3rd Sep Russia demands German withdrawal from Finland
1944	Siege of Tito HQ
21st May Bosnia Orders the XV Gebirg Corps to attack Tito in Bosnia & destroy the Yugoslav Army, YANL
25th May Bosnia The attack on Tito fails due to partisan intelligence
1945	Commander
27th Jan Vienna Appointed Commander of the Army Group North
6th April Vienna Appointed Commander Army Group South by Hitler in the Fuehrer Bunker
1945	Medal
17th Jan Vienna Awarded the swords to the oak leaf by Adolf Hitler
1945	Siege of River Oder
27th Jan River Oder Rendulic is given the task of holding back the Russians who had advanced as far as the Oder
1945	Supreme Commander
12th Mar Vienna Appointed Supreme Commander of Courland
1945	Surrender
7th May Vienna Surrenders 600,000 troops to the Americans rather than the Russians
1946	Nuremberg War Trials
Nuremberg Sentenced to 20 yrs for crimes that could not be proven & released in 1951
1946	Trial
Nuremberg Germa Sentenced to 20 yrs for crimes that could not be proven & released in 1951
1951	Arrest
Sentenced to 20 yrs for crimes that could not be proven & released in 1951