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Alexander Edler von Daniels
Born	17 March 1891 Trier
Died	6 January 1960 Bielefeld
Allegiance	German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Heer
Years of service	1910-1945
Rank	Generalleutnant
Commands held	376. Infanterie-Division
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Alexander Edler von Daniels was a German general who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Daniels commanded the 376th Infantry Division at Stalingrad, which was part of XI Corps of the German Sixth Army. Despite the hardships facing his and many other soldiers, Daniels learned to make ways of entertainment in the ruins of the city.^{[citation needed]} He played a game of target shooting with some of his officers for Oktoberfest, and played card games of Doppelkopf.^{[citation needed]} In late December 1942, after Operation Uranus encircled the Sixth Army, Daniels was promoted to Lieutenant-General (Generalleutnant) and awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Daniels was marched into captivity by the Red Army on January 28, 1943, where he was interrogated by Captain Nikolay Dyatlenko.^[1]

Contents

1 Awards and decorations
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

Awards and decorations

Iron Cross (1914)
- 2nd Class
- 1st Class
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords
Cross of Honor
Iron Cross (1939)
- 2nd Class (24 October 1939)
- 1st Class (11 June 1940)
Eastern Front Medal
German Cross (15 December 1941)
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
- Knight's Cross on 18 December 1942 as Generalmajor and commander of 376. Infanterie-Division

Notes

Regarding personal names: Graf is a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin. Regarding personal names: Edler was a rank of nobility, not a first or middle name. The female form is Edle. In Germany, however, since 1919 Edler/Edle is no title any more but part of the surname, thus following the given name(s) and not to be translated.

References

^ Beevor, Antony (1999). Stalingrad, London: Penguin, p. 378

Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945. Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas, 2000. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II. Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.

External links

Alexander Edler von Daniels @ Lexikon der Wehrmacht

Battle of Stalingrad

Operations

Nazi Germany: Donnerschlag; Winter Storm

Soviet Union: Little Saturn; Ring; Saturn; Uranus

Formations

Army groups and Fronts	Nazi Germany B Centre Don Soviet Union Don Southwestern Stalingrad Voronezh

Armies	Nazi Germany 4th Panzer 6th Hungary 2nd Italy 8th Romania 3rd 4th Soviet Union 1st Guards 2nd Guards 3rd Guards 21st 51st 62nd 64th 65th

Corps	Nazi Germany XIV Panzer XL Panzer XLVIII Panzer IV VIII XI LI 8th Air Soviet Union 1st Tank 4th Tank 13th Tank 16th Tank 24th Tank 26th Tank 4th Mechanised 13th Mechanised 3rd Guards Cavalry 4th Cavalry 8th Cavalry

Divisions	Nazi Germany 6th Panzer 14th Panzer 16th Panzer 17th Panzer 22nd Panzer, 24th Panzer 3rd Motorised Infantry 29th Motorised Infantry 60th Motorised Infantry 5th Infantry 44th Infantry 71st Infantry 76th Infantry 79th Infantry 94th Infantry 100th Infantry 113th Infantry 295th Infantry 297th Infantry 305th Infantry 371st Infantry 376th Infantry 384th Infantry 389th Infantry Soviet Union 13th Guards Rifle 15th Guards Rifle 33rd Guards Rifle 35th Guards Rifle 36th Guards Rifle 37th Guards Rifle 39th Guards Rifle 38th Rifle 45th Rifle 62nd Rifle 64th Rifle 91st Rifle 93rd Rifle 95th Rifle 112th Rifle 138th Rifle 157th Rifle 169th Rifle 173rd Rifle 181st Rifle 193rd Rifle 196th Rifle 204th Rifle 214th Rifle 221st Rifle 248th Rifle 284th Rifle 302nd Rifle 308th Rifle 422nd Rifle 685th Rifle 414th Anti-Tank 149th Artillery 60th Cavalry 81st Cavalry

Notable
participants

Nazi Germany: Adolf Hitler; Alexander Edler von Daniels; Hermann Göring; Wilhelm Hoffman; Hermann Hoth; Hans-Valentin Hube; Erwin König; Erich von Manstein; Friedrich Paulus; Wolfram von Richthofen; Arthur Schmidt; Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach; Karl Strecker

Croatia: Viktor Pavičić

Italy: Italo Gariboldi

Hungary: Gusztáv Vitéz Jány

Romania: Constantin Constantinescu-Claps; Petre Dumitrescu; Mihail Lascăr

Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin; Azi Aslanov; Vasily Badanov; Vasily Chuikov; Nikolay Dyatlenko; Sasha Fillipov; Peter Gitelman; Vasily Grossman; Nikita Khrushchev; Dmitry Lelyushenko; Rodion Malinovsky; Yakov Pavlov; Alexander Rodimtsev; Konstantin Rokossovsky; Alexander Shcherbakov; Semyon Timoshenko; Aleksandr Vasilevsky; Nikolay Voronov; Erich Weinert; Andrei Yeremenko; Vasily Zaytsev; Georgy Zhukov

Locations

In memoriam

Persondata
Name	Daniels, Alexander Edler Von
Alternative names
Short description	German general
Date of birth	17 March 1891
Place of birth	Trier
Date of death	6 January 1960
Place of death	Bielefeld

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