Generalleutnant Gerhard Schmidhuber

Generalleutnant Gerhard Schmidhuber

Generalleutnant Gerhard Schmidhuber, Commander of the 13th Panzer Division.  The division was encircled at Budapest.  On February 11, 1945, the city commander ordered all units to conduct breakout operations.  Schmidhuber was killed early in the attempt; his remains could not be positively identified; he probably rests in the unknown section at the German Military Cemetery at Budaörs, Hungary.