{{Short description|German military personnel}} {{Infobox military person |name = Harald Schultz |birth_date = {{birth-date|10 November 1895}} |death_date = {{death date and age|1957|3|15|1895|10|10|df=y}} |birth_place = Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now Riga, Latvia) |death_place = Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany |image = |caption = |nickname = |allegiance = Russian Empire<br/>Latvia<br/>Nazi Germany |branch = German Army |service_years = 1940–1945 |rank = Lieutenant Colonel<br/>''Generalmajor'' |commands = 24th Infantry Division |unit = |battles = {{tree list}} *World War I ---- *Latvian War of Independence *World War II **Operation Barbarossa **Battle of Białystok–Minsk **Battle of Smolensk (1941) **Battle of Moscow **Battle of Kursk **Courland Pocket {{tree list/end}} |awards = Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross |other_work = }}

'''Harald Schultz''' ({{Langx|lv|Haralds Šulcs}}; 10 November 1895 – 15 March 1957) was a German general during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Schultz surrendered to the Soviet forces in the Courland Pocket in 1945. Convicted as a war criminal in the Soviet Union, he was held until 1955.

==Awards and decorations== <!-- * Iron Cross (1939) ** 2nd Class ** 1st Class---> * German Cross in Gold on 21 February 1944 as ''Oberst'' in Artillerie-Regiment 205{{sfn|Patzwall|Scherzer|2001|p=428}} * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 5 April 1945 as ''Generalmajor'' and commander of 24. Infanterie-Division{{sfn|Scherzer|2007|p=689}}

==Citations and references== {{Reflist}}

===Cited sources=== * {{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=Scherzer |first=Veit |year=2007 |title=Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives |trans-title=The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives |language=German |location=Jena, Germany |publisher=Scherzers Militaer-Verlag |isbn=978-3-938845-17-2 }}

{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box |before=General der Gebirgstruppe Kurt Versock |after=None |title=Commander of 24. Infanterie-Division |years=3 September 1944 – 8 May 1945 }} {{s-end}}

{{Knight's Cross recipients of the 24th ID}}

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