(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalmajor Walter Gosewisch
Born: 13 Jun 1896 in Hannover
Died: 06 Mar 1973 in Hannover
Promotions:
Offiziers-Stellvertreter (1916); Leutnant (20 Jul 1917); Charakter als Oberleutnant (31 Jul 1920); Polizei-Leutnant (01 Aug 1920); Polizei-Oberleutnant (01 Jan 1923); Polizei-Hauptmann (29 Apr 1927); Hauptmann (01 May 1935); Major (01 Dec 1935); Oberstleutnant (01 Dec 1938); Oberst (01 Dec 1940); Generalmajor (01 Oct 1943)
Career:
Entered the Army as a War Volunteer with the 6th Telegraph-Battalion, Munsterlager (26 Aug 1914-19 Nov 1914)
With the Telephone-Detachment of the VII. Army-Corps (20 Nov 1914-13 Aug 1915)
With the 6th Telephone-Battalion (14 Aug 1915-02 Dec 1915)
With the Telephone-Detachment of the VII. Army-Corps (03 Dec 1915-25 May 1916)
With the Telephone-Detachment of the IX. Reserve-Corps (26 May 1916-01 Nov 1916)
With the Army-Telephone-Battalion 4 (02 Nov 1916-26 Jan 1917)
Officer-Aspirant, Platoon and Company Leader, Battalion-Adjutant in the 136th Infantry-Regiment (27 Jan 1917-00 Dec 1918)
Company-Leader in the Territorial-Rifle-Corps (00 Dec 1918-00 Aug 1919)
Signals-Officer of the I. Battalion of the 7th Rifle-Regiment (00 Aug 1919-27 Apr 1920)
Company-Leader in the 4th Signals-Battalion (28 Apr 1920-31 Jul 1920)
Retired (31 Jul 1920)
Entered Police Service as Leader of the Signals-Unit of the Protection-Police Magdeburg then Leader of the Police-Radio-Affairs is the Provence of Saxony, Magdeburg (01 Aug 1920-31 Dec 1929)
Leader of the Test-Office for Signals-Affairs of the Prussian Police Institute for Technology and Traffic, Berlin (01 Jan 1930-14 Oct 1933)
Advisor with the Staff of the Chief of the Prussian State Police (15 Oct 1933-30 Apr 1935)
Transferred to Luftwaffe Service as Chief of the 2nd Training-Company at the Air Signals School, Halle/Saale (01 May 1935-31 Mar 1936)
Group-Leader with the Chief of Communication-Affairs, RLM (01 Apr 1936-28 Feb 1938)
At the same time, Acting-Commander of the Air Signals Instruction Battalion, Greifswald (01 Apr 1937-17 Jun 1937)
Department-Chief with the Chief of the Communication-Affairs, RLM (01 Mar 1938-24 Nov 1941)
At the same time Acting-Signals-Leader of the IV. Flying-Corps (23 Dec 1939-1940)
Signals-Leader with the X. Flying-Corps (25 Nov 1941-26 Jun 1942)
Higher Signals Leader with Air-Fleet-Command 5 (09 Jul 1942-10 Dec 1943)
Higher Signals Leader with Luftwaffe-Command South-East (17 Dec 1943-14 Mar 1944)
Chief of the Air-Signals-Inspection with the General-Signals-Leader of the Luftwaffe (02 Apr 1944-10 Apr 1945)
Higher Signals Leader with the High-Command of the Luftwaffe (11 Apr 1945-24 May 1945)
In British then US Captivity (25 May 1945-27 Jun 1947)
Released (27 Jun 1947)

Decorations & Awards:
- 1914 EK I
- 1914 EK II
- Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
- Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung IV. bis I. Klasse
- Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 01.10.1938 mit Spange „Prager Burg“
- Spange zum EK II
- Spange zum EK I


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