{{Short description|German general in the Wehrmacht}} __NOTOC__{{Infobox military person |name=Paul Laux |birth_date=11 November 1887 |death_date={{death date and age|1944|9|2|1887|11|11|df=y}} |birth_place=Weimar |death_place=Riga |image= |image_size= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance=German Empire<br>Weimar Republic<br>Nazi Germany |branch=German Army |service_years=1907–1944 |rank= ''General der Infanterie'' |commands=126th Infantry Division<br>II Army Corps<br>16th Army |unit= |battles={{tree list}} * World War I * World War II ** Invasion of Poland ** Battle of France ** Operation Barbarossa ** Siege of Leningrad ** Battle of Narva (1944) ** Šiauliai Offensive {{tree list/end}} |awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves |other_work= }}
'''Paul Laux''' (11 November 1887 – 2 September 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 16th Army. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.
Laux took command of the 10th Division in Passau. On 18 March some of these troops reached Vienna.<ref>Anna Rosmus ''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 139f</ref> In March 1939, when National Socialists and the 85th Infantry Regiment commemorated fallen heroes on the Passau Cathedral Square, Laux praised Adolf Hitler.<ref>Anna Rosmus ''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 199f</ref> Next, his men invaded Bohemia. On 13 April Laux commemorated the annexation of Austria in Passau.<ref>Anna Rosmus ''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, p. 139</ref>
As commanding officer of the 126th Infantry Division, Laux took part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.<ref>Anna Rosmus ''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, p. 200</ref> On 29 August 1944 Paul Laux crashed during a reconnaissance flight. He died of his injuries on 2 September 1944.
==Awards == <!---* Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class & 1st Class---> * Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (January 1940) & 1st Class (July 1940)<ref name="Thomas p16">Thomas 1998, p. 16.</ref> * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves ** Knight's Cross on 14 December 1941 as ''Generalleutnant'' and commander of 126. Infanterie-Division<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 234.</ref> ** 237th Oak Leaves on 17 May 1943 as ''General der Infanterie'' and commander of II Armeekorps<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 60.</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 }} * {{Cite book |last=Thomas |first=Franz |year=1998 |title=Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 2: L–Z |trans-title=The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 2: L–Z |language=German |location=Osnabrück, Germany |publisher=Biblio-Verlag |isbn=978-3-7648-2300-9 }} {{refend}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box |before=none |after=Generalleutnant Harry Hoppe |title= Commander of 126. Infanterie-Division |years=15 October 1940 – 8 October 1942 }} {{succession box |before=General der Infanterie Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt |after=Generalleutnant Wilhelm Hasse |title= Commander of II. Armeekorps |years=28 November 1943 – 1 April 1944 }} {{succession box |before=Generalleutnant Kurt von Tippelskirch |after=Generalleutnant Wilhelm Hasse |title= Commander of II. Armeekorps |years=11 May 1944 – 3 July 1944 }} {{succession box |before=General der Artillerie Christian Hansen |after=Generaloberst Carl Hilpert |title= Commander of 16. Armee |years=2 July 1944 – 30 August 1944 }} {{s-end}}
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