{{Short description|German general (1894–1967)}} __NOTOC__{{Infobox military person |name = Siegfried Thomaschki |birth_date = {{birth-date|20 March 1894}} |death_date = {{death date and age|1967|5|31|1894|3|20|df=y}} |birth_place = <!---- Miswalde, German Empire |death_place = Bad Neuenahr ----> |image = |caption = |nickname = |allegiance = German Empire <br/>Weimar Republic<br/>Nazi Germany |branch = German Army |service_years = 1913–1945 |rank = ''General der Artillerie'' |commands = 11th Infantry Division<br/>X Army Corps |unit = |battles = {{tree list}} *World War I ---- *World War II **Invasion of Poland **Battle of France **Operation Barbarossa **Siege of Leningrad **Courland Pocket {{tree list/end}} |awards = Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves |other_work = }}
'''Siegfried Thomaschki''' (20 March 1894 – 31 May 1967) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 11th Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.
Thomaschki surrendered to the Soviet forces in the Courland Pocket on 8 May 1945. Convicted in the Soviet Union as a war criminal, he was held until 1955.
==Awards and decorations== * Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (31 November 1914) & 1st Class (27 January 1917)<ref name="Thomas p375">Thomas 1998, p. 375.</ref> * Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class & 1st Class (18 December 1939)<ref name="Thomas p375"/> * German Cross in Gold on 19 December 1941 as ''Oberst'' and Arko 123<ref>Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 475.</ref> * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves ** Knight's Cross on 1 November 1942 as ''Generalmajor'' and commander of 11. Infanterie-Division<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 342.</ref> ** Oak Leaves on 11 September 1943 as ''Generalleutnant'' and commander of 11.Infanterie-Division<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 63.</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 |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 }} {{refend}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box |before=Generalleutnant Herbert von Böckmann |after=Generalleutnant Karl Burdach |title= Commander of ''11. Infanterie-Division'' |years=26 January 1942 – 7 September 1943 }} {{succession box |before=Generalleutnant Dr. Ing. Dr. Johannes Mayer |after=None |title= Commander of X. Armeekorps |years=27 December 1944 – 8 May 1945}} {{s-end}}
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