Ranks
- Officer Candidate (Fähnrich): 3 March 1910
- Lieutenant (Leutnant): 20 March 1911 (Patent 24 June 1909)
- Major (Major): 1 April 1928
- Lieutenant-Colonel (Oberstleutnant): 1 February 1933
- Colonel (Oberst): 1 March 1935
- Brigadier-General (Generalmajor): 1 April 1938
- Major-General (Generalleutnant): 1 June 1940
- Lieutenant-General of Infantry (General der Infanterie): 27 August 1942 (RDA 1 February 1942)
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