German Forces

Gerhard Schmidhuber

Gerhard Schmidhuber ( 9 April 1894 – 11 February 1945 in the battle of Budapest) was a German major general. Born in Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony, Schmidhuber was commanding officer of the Wehrmacht Heer's 13th Panzer Division during World War II. When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, Schmidthuber was supreme commander of German army forces in that country. In that capacity, he had extensive dealings with the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, the latter who saved countless thousands of Jews from extermination during the Holocaust.Schmidhuber also denied to destroy the Jewish ghetto in Budapest,and save many lives.He died under the breakout in between 9 and 11 pm(he have problems with his eye,he's blinded when nightfall)and his corpse dropped by a foxhole.