(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)

Generalmajor Oskar Kriegbaum
Born: 06 Jan 1889 in Landau, Pfalz
Died: 10 Apr 1948 in Haar by Munich
Promotions:
Fahnenjunker-Gefreiter (01 Dec 1909); Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier (21 Mar 1910); F�hnrich (16 Jun 1910); Leutnant (19 Jul 1911); Oberleutnant (18 Aug 1916); Charakter als Hauptmann (31 Jan 1920); Polizei-Hauptmann (13 Oct 1919); Polizei-Major (01 Apr 1926); Polizei-Oberstleutnant (01 Apr 1933); Major (01 Nov 1934); Oberstleutnant (01 Aug 1935); Oberst (01 Aug 1937); Generalmajor (01 Dec 1939)
Career:
Entered the Army as Fahnenjunker and Company-Officer in the 166th Infantry-Regiment (25 Oct 1909-15 Oct 1914)
Detached to the War School in Potsdam (01 Aug 1910-00 Jun 1911)
Taken ill, with the Replacement-Battalion of the 166th Infantry-Regiment (16 Oct 1914-05 Aug 1915)
At the same time, Leader of the Recruitment-Depot of the 166th Infantry-Regiment (00 Mar 1915-05 Aug 1915)
Observer-Training with the 9th Flying-Replacement-Battalion (06 Aug 1915-31 Aug 1915)
Observer-Training with the 11th Flying-Replacement-Battalion (01 Sep 1915-04 Oct 1915)
Detached to Army-Flight-Park 13 (05 Oct 1915-05 Nov 1915)
Pilot-Training with the 57th Field-Flying-Battalion (06 Nov 1915-29 Nov 1916)
Wounded (17 Nov 1916)
Detached to Army-Flight-Park 1 (30 Nov 1916-28 Dec 1916)
With the 1st Flying-Replacement-Battalion (29 Dec 1916-23 Mar 1917)
Detached to Flying-Observer-School Schwerin (24 Mar 1917-26 Sep 1917)
1st Adjutant of Wing-School Paderborn (27 Sep 1917-13 Oct 1917)
2nd General-Staff-Officer in the Central-Department of the Inspection Of Flying Troops (14 Oct 1917-12 Feb 1918)
1st Adjutant of the Flying-Observer-School Paderborn (13 Feb 1918-27 Feb 1919)
Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the 17th Infantry-Division (28 Feb 1919-10 Jun 1919)
Court-Officer and Temporary-Adjutant of the 17th Infantry-Regiment (11 Jun 1919-10 Oct 1919)
Placed to the Disposal of the Processing-Office of the 166th Infantry-Regiment (11 Oct 1919-31 Jan 1920)
Retired (31 Jan 1920)
Entered Police Service as Flight-Leader with the Flying-Battalion of the Mecklenburg Security-Police (13 Oct 1919-22 Nov 1919)
Personnel-Advisor in the Staff of the Chief of the Mecklenburg Security-Police (23 Nov 1919-15 Mar 1921)
Advisor in the Mecklenburg Interior Ministry, Schwerin (16 Mar 1921-31 Aug 1923)
Leader of the Police-Alarm and Recruitment-Department of the Order-Police, Schwerin (01 Sep 1923-23 Apr 1924)
Detached to the Higher Police School Eiche near Potsdam (24 Apr 1924-08 Aug 1924)
Temporary-Commander of the Order-Police, Schwerin (09 Aug 1924-31 Mar 1926)
Commander of the Order-Police, Schwerin (01 Apr 1926-21 Jul 1927)
At the same time, Detached to the Police School for Physical-Training Spandau (20 May 1927-17 Jun 1927)
Temporary-Leader of the entire Mecklenburg Order-Police, Interior Ministry of the State of Mecklenburg (22 Jul 1927-10 Mar 1933)
Subsidiary-Leadership-Training in Berlin (02 Oct 1929-20 Dec 1929)
Commander of the State-Police L�beck (11 Mar 1933-31 Dec 1933)
Commander of the I. Battalion of the State-Police-Regiment Mecklenburg-L�beck (01 Jan 1934-31 Oct 1934)
Transferred to Army Service as Commander of the Transport-Battalion L�beck (01 Nov 1934-30 Sep 1935)
At the same time, Revitalisation-Training at the Bomber-School Lechfeld (23 Apr 1935-31 May 1935)
Transferred to Luftwaffe Service as Commander of the Flying-Replacement-Battalion Quedlinburg then of the 12th Flying-Replacement-Battalion (01 Oct 1935-31 Jan 1936)
Leader of the Forward-Command of the Luftwaffe-War-School Dresden-R�nitz (01 Feb 1936-11 Mar 1936)
Commander of Air-War-School I, Dresden (12 Mar 1936-30 Apr 1942)
Military-Replacement-Inspector Weimar (01 May 1942-30 Nov 1942)
Officer with Special Duties of the RLM and Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (01 Dec 1942-31 Jan 1943)
Retired (31 Jan 1943)

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