{{Short description|German general and Knight's Cross recipient}} {{Infobox military person |name = Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege |birth_date = 11 November 1889 |death_date = {{death date and age|1965|12|31|1889|11|11|df=y}} |birth_place = Ostrowo |death_place = Hildesheim |image = Ehrenfried Oskar Boege.jpg |image_size = |caption = |nickname = |allegiance = German Empire<br />Weimar Republic<br />Nazi Germany |branch = German Army |service_years = 1913–1945 |rank = ''General der Infanterie'' |commands = 197th Infantry Division<br />XXXXIII Army Corps<br /> 18th Army |unit = |battles = {{tree list}} * World War I ---- * World War II ** Annexation of the Sudetenland ** Invasion of Poland ** Battle of France ** Operation Barbarossa ** Battle of Smolensk (1941) ** Battle of Moscow ** Battle of Smolensk (1943) ** Courland Pocket {{tree list/end}} |awards = Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves |other_work = }} __NOTOC__ '''Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege''' (11 November 1889 – 31 December 1965) was a German general during World War II who held several corps level commands. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.
Boege surrendered to the Soviet forces in May 1945 in the Courland Pocket. Convicted as a war criminal in the Soviet Union, he was held until 1955.
==Awards and decorations== * Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (30 September 1914) & 1st Class (6 February 1917)<ref name="Thomas p58">Thomas 1997, p. 58.</ref> * Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (16 June 1940) &1st Class (16 June 1940)<ref name="Thomas p58"/> * German Cross in Gold on 13 January 1943 as ''Generalmajor'' and commander of the 197. Infanterie-Division<ref>Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 48.</ref> * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves ** Knight's Cross on 22 December 1941 as ''Oberst'' and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 7<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 116.</ref> ** Oak Leaves on 21 September 1944 as ''General der Infanterie'' and commander of XXXXIII. Armee-Korps<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 75.</ref>
==References==
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===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book |last=Fellgiebel |first=Walther-Peer |author-link=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 }} * {{Cite book |last1=Patzwall |first1=Klaus D. |last2=Scherzer |first2=Veit |year=2001 |title=Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II |trans-title=The German Cross 1941 – 1945 History and Recipients Volume 2 |language=German |location=Norderstedt, Germany |publisher=Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall |isbn=978-3-931533-45-8 }} * {{Cite book |last=Thomas |first=Franz |year=1997 |title=Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 1: A–K |trans-title=The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 1: A–K |language=German |location=Osnabrück, Germany |publisher=Biblio-Verlag |isbn=978-3-7648-2299-6 }} {{refend}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box |before=''Generalleutnant'' Hermann Meyer-Rabingen |after=''Generalleutnant'' Eugen Wößner |title= Commander of 197. Infanterie-Division |years=1 April 1942 – 5 November 1943 }} {{succession box |before=''General der Infanterie'' Karl von Oven |after=''General der Gebirgstruppen'' Kurt Versock |title= Commander of XXXXIII. Armeekorps |years=25 March 1944 – 3 September 1944 }} {{succession box |before=''General der Artillerie'' Herbert Loch |after=None |title= Commander of 18th Armee |years=5 September 1944 – 8 May 1945 }} {{s-end}}
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