The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Ernő Billnitzer

Billnitzer, Ernő

Lieutenant-General

* 17th of June 1889

† 16th of December 1976

Promotions

1936-11-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1941-04-28 Colonel (Seniority from 1940-09-01)
1944-07-01 Major-General
1945-02-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1938-02-01 1942-11-15 Commanding Officer 1st Field Artillery Detachment
1942-11-15 1943-05-01 Commanding Officer Artillery, II Corps
1943-05-01 1944-09-01 Chief of Central Inspection Committee
1944-09-01 1944-10-20 Commandant of Hajmaskér Field Artillery School
1944-10-20 1945-02-14 Commanding Officer Assault Artillery Group Budapest
1945-02-14 1948-07-XX Prisoner of War of the Soviets
1948-07-27 1949-02-02 Arrested
1949-02-02 Condemned to 3 years imprisonment as war criminal
1950-03-20 Sentence changed to 10 years imprisonment
1997-05-XX Rehabilitated
Picture source: Courtesy of Hubert Kuberski