{{short description|WW2 German Army general (1894-1949)}} __NOTOC__{{Infobox military person |name = Christian Usinger |birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|8|21|df=y}} |death_date = {{death date and age|1949|4|2|1894|8|21|df=y}} |image = |birth_place = |death_place = POW camp at Shuya, Soviet Union |caption = |nickname = |allegiance = German Empire<br/>Weimar Republic <br/>Nazi Germany |branch = German Army |service_years = 1914–1945 |rank = ''Generalleutnant'' |commands = I Army Corps |unit = |battles = {{tree list}} *World War I *World War II **Courland Pocket {{tree list/end}} |awards = Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross |other_work = }}
'''Christian Usinger''' (21 August 1894 – 2 April 1949) was a German general during World War II who commanded the I Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Usinger surrendered to the Soviet Forces in 1945 in the Courland Pocket. He died in a POW camp in the Soviet Union in early 1949.
==Awards and decorations== <!--- * Iron Cross (1939) ---> * German Cross in Gold on 19 September 1942 as ''Oberst'' in Arko 110<ref>Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 484.</ref> * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 9 June 1944 as ''Generalmajor'' and leader of the 81. Infanterie-Division<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 428.</ref>
==References==
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===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book |last=Fellgiebel |first=Walther-Peer |authorlink=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel |year=2000 |orig-date=1986 |title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile |trans-title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches |language=German |location=Friedberg, Germany |publisher=Podzun-Pallas |isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6 }} * Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit (2001). ''Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941–1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II''. Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. {{ISBN|3-931533-45-X}}. {{refend}}
{{S-start}} {{S-mil}} {{Succession box |before=General der Infanterie Friedrich Fangohr |after=German Capitulation |title= Commander of I. Armeekorps |years=21 April 1945 - 8 May 1945 }} {{S-end}}
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