The panzer Leader
 

Born 
13 -07 – 1896

Joined the Army Academy 
10 – 08 – 1914

 18 – 06 -1915 
Second Lieutenant

01 04 -1925 
First Lieutenant

01 – 02 – 1931 
Captain

01 -1 – 1936 
Major

01 – 02 – 1939 
Lieutenant Colonel

01 – 10 – 1940 
Colonel

01 – 11 – 1942 
Brigadier

22 – 01 – 1943 
General

01  -05 – 1943 
Colonel General *panzer*

01 – 05 1943 
Commander of  Afrika Korps

16 – 05 – 1943 
prisoner of war *Tunisia*

23 – 05 1944 
returned back to Germany

09 – 06 -1944 
Commander of Panzer Group in the East front

1945 
prisoner of war

 28 – 10 – 1968 
died.