(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalmajor Hugo Schörgi
Born: 18 Jan 1890 in Innsbruck
Died: 21 Feb 1945 in Küniglberg, Vienna (Wien) (Air Raid)
Promotions:
Fähnrich (18 Aug 1909); Leutnant (01 May 1912); Oberleutnant (01 Jan 1915); Hauptmann (01 Feb 1918); Major (08 Jul 1921); Oberstleutnant (22 Jun 1937); Oberst (20 Apr 1939); Generalmajor (01 Nov 1942)
Career:
Entered the Austrian Army in the 84th Infantry-Regiment (18 Aug 1909-31 Dec 1912)
In the 11th Mountain-Artillery-Regiment (01 Jan 1913-06 Jul 1915)
Battery-Commander in the 14th Mountain-Artillery-Regiment (07 Jul 1915-17 Oct 1915)
Battery-Commander in the 39th Field-Cannon-Regiment (18 Oct 1915-14 Jun 1917)
Battery-Commander in the 11th Mountain-Artillery-Regiment (15 Jun 1917-00 Nov 1918)
Commander of Artillery-Company I, Graz (00 Nov 1918-31 Dec 1918)
Detached to the State-Government Graz (07 Jan 1919-26 Jan 1919)
Controller in Food-Service with the District-Magistrate Weiz (27 Jan 1919-30 Sep 1919)
With the Personnel-Evaluation of the State-Office for Army Affairs, Department 5 (01 Oct 1919-20 Dec 1920)
Commander of the 6th Brigade-Communications-Company (21 Dec 1920-07 Jul 1921)
Commander of the 6th Brigade-Artillery-Battalion (08 Jul 1921-05 Oct 1932)
Advisor with the Command of the 6th Brigade (06 Oct 1932-31 Aug 1933)
Air-Protection-Advisor with the Command of the 2nd Brigade (01 Sep 1933-31 Jan 1935)
Air-Protection-Advisor with the Command of the Austrian Air Force (01 Feb 1935-30 Apr 1938)
Transferred into the German Army (15 Mar 1938)
Officer with Special Duties of the RLM and C-in-C Luftwaffe (01 May 1938-14 Nov 1938)
Commander of the 84th Flak-Battalion (15 Nov 1938-14 Jan 1940)
Commander of the 29th Flak-Regiment (15 Jan 1940-19 May 1940)
Operations-Officer 3 in the General-Staff of Air-Fleet 3 (20 May 1940-14 Aug 1940)
Commander of the 22nd Flak-Regiment (15 Aug 1940-08 Dec 1940)
Commander of the 182nd Flak-Regiment (09 Dec 1940-00 Sep 1942)
Commander of Flak-Brigade VI (00 Sep 1942-00 Nov 1942)
Flak-Inspector with Air-Region-Command Holland (00 Nov 1942-15 Mar 1943)
Commander of Flak-Brigade XIX (15 Mar 1943-02 Aug 1944)
Führer-Reserve OKL (03 Aug 1944-31 Aug 1944)
General Of Luftwaffe with Military-District-Commander XVII and Commander of Investigation-Staff in Military-District XVII (01 Sep 1944-21 Feb 1945)
Killed in an Air Attack (21 Feb 1945)

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