# Christian Usinger

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{{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](/source/Shuya%2C_Ivanovo_Oblast), Soviet Union
|caption       = 
|nickname      = 
|allegiance    = [German Empire](/source/German_Empire)<br/>[Weimar Republic](/source/Weimar_Republic) <br/>[Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany)
|branch        = [German Army](/source/German_Army_(1935-1945))
|service_years = 1914–1945
|rank          = ''[Generalleutnant](/source/Generalleutnant)''
|commands      = [I Army Corps](/source/I_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht))
|unit          = 
|battles       = {{tree list}}
*[World War I](/source/World_War_I)
*[World War II](/source/World_War_II)
**[Courland Pocket](/source/Courland_Pocket)
{{tree list/end}}
|awards        = [Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross](/source/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](/source/I_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)). He was a recipient of the [Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross](/source/Knight's_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross) of [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany). Usinger surrendered to the Soviet Forces in 1945 in the [Courland Pocket](/source/Courland_Pocket). He died in a POW camp in the Soviet Union in early 1949.

==Awards and decorations==
<!--- * [Iron Cross](/source/Iron_Cross) (1939) --->
* [German Cross](/source/German_Cross) in Gold on 19 September 1942 as ''[Oberst](/source/Oberst)'' in Arko 110<ref>Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 484.</ref>
* [Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross](/source/Knight's_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross) on 9 June 1944 as ''[Generalmajor](/source/Generalmajor)'' and leader of the 81. Infanterie-Division<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 428.</ref>

==References==

===Citations===
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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](/source/Friedrich_Fangohr)
|after=German Capitulation
|title= Commander of [I. Armeekorps](/source/I_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht))
|years=21 April 1945 - 8 May 1945
}}
{{S-end}}

{{Knight's Cross recipients of the 81st ID}}
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Category:1894 births
Category:1949 deaths
Category:German Army generals of World War II
Category:German Army personnel of World War I
Category:German people who died in Soviet detention
Category:German prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet Union
Category:Lieutenant generals of the German Army (1935–1945)
Category:Military personnel from Lower Saxony
Category:Military personnel from the Province of Hanover
Category:People from Wilhelmshaven
Category:Recipients of the Gold German Cross
Category:Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

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