Franz Mattenklott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franz Mattenklott

Military officer of World War II

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1884

Place of Birth: Zielona Góra, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 28-Jun-1957

Profession: military officer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Franz Mattenklott (19 November 1884 – 28 June 1954) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.
He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Born in Silesia, Mattenklott became a military officer in 1903 and fought in World War I.
He remained in the downsized army of the Weimar Republic after the war, and by the start of World War II he was already a Generalmajor (Major General).
He saw only limited involvement in the Battle of France in 1940, but his units played a decisive role during the German invasion of Greece in 1941 and, later the same year, during the Siege of Sevastopol and other operations in the Crimea.
He was appointed as military district commander in mid–1944, and faced the Western allies during the final battles of the war in the spring of 1945. Although implicated in war crimes in both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II, Mattenklott was never convicted of any wrongdoing, dying a free man in the summer of 1954.