Generalmajor Friedrich-Carl Gottschalk Born: 30 Sep 1892 in Brandenburg Died: 14 Feb 1960 in Berlin Promotions:
Charakter als F�hnrich (04 Apr 1911); F�hnrich (19 Dec 1911); Leutnant (18 Aug 1912); Oberleutnant (28 Nov 1917); Polizei-Oberleutnant (11 Oct 1920); Polizei-Hauptmann (13 Jul 1921); Polizei-Major (01 Jan 1934); Major (15 Oct 1935); Oberstleutnant (01 Jan 1937); Oberst (17 Aug 1940); Generalmajor (01 Feb 1944) Career:
Entered Army Service (04 Apr 1911)
Passed Out the Cadet-Corps as F�hnrich in the 3rd Field-Artillery-Regiment (04 Apr 1911-02 Aug 1914)
Detached as a Guard to the Telecommunications Tower Nauen (02 Aug 1914-24 Aug 1914)
In the Field with the 6th Reserve-Field-Artillery-Regiment (24 Aug 1914-30 Sep 1914)
Battery-Officer and Temporary-Battery-Leader in the 3rd Field-Artillery-Regiment (30 Sep 1914-15 Mar 1915)
Adjutant of the I. Battalion of the 3rd Field-Artillery-Regiment (15 Mar 1915-04 Jan 1916)
Transferred to Flying-Observer-Training to the 8th Flying-Replacement-Battalion (04 Jan 1916-13 Apr 1916)
Transferred to Army-Flight-Park Bug (13 Apr 1916-16 Jun 1916)
Detached to the 36th Field-Flying-Battalion (16 Jun 1916-13 Aug 1917)
Transferred to Army-Flight-Park 5 (13 Aug 1917-14 Aug 1917)
Air-Protection-Officer in Section Vaux (14 Aug 1917-05 Nov 1917)
Transferred to the Aircraft Works Charlottenburg (05 Nov 1917-06 Jul 1918)
Transport-Officer with Army-Flight-Park 3 (06 Jul 1918-04 Aug 1918)
Detached as Flying-Transport-Officer at L�ttich (04 Aug 1918-21 Dec 1918)
Placed to the Disposal of the Inspection of Flying Troops and Transferred to the Replacement-Battalion of the 3rd Field-Artillery-Regiment (21 Dec 1918-17 Jan 1919)
Battery-Leader in the Artillery-Battalion Gn�gge (17 Jan 1919-15 Apr 1919)
Adjutant of the Artillery-Battalion Gn�gge (15 Apr 1919-01 May 1919)
Transferred to the Staff of the Artillery-Leader of the 3rd Reichswehr-Brigade (01 May 1919-01 Oct 1919)
Battery-Officer in the 3rd Reichswehr-Artillery-Regiment (01 Oct 1919-11 Oct 1920)
Granted Leave (11 Oct 1920-31 Dec 1920)
Retired (31 Dec 1920)
Entered Police Service (11 Oct 1920)
With the Protection-Police in Berlin (11 Oct 1920-01 Mar 1933)
Detached to Course at the Police-School for Physical-Training, Spandau (28 Sep 1921-28 Oct 1921)
Detached to Course at the Higher Police School in Eiche (01 Mar 1923-30 Jun 1923)
Detached to Training-Course with the Police Presidency in Berlin (01 Nov 1926-28 Feb 1927)
Detached to the 10th Police-Major-Training-Course at the Higher Police School in Eiche (04 Oct 1932-28 Jan 1933)
Transferred to the Special-Purpose-Police-Department Wecke, on 17 Jul 1933 it was renamed Special-Purpose-State-Police-Group Wecke, and on 12 Jan 1934 it was again renamed to State-Police-Group General G�ring (01 Mar 1933-15 Oct 1935)
Detached for Instruction as a Staff-Officer with Military-District-Command III (28 Jan 1935-09 Feb 1935)
Detached to the Artillery-Regiment Minden (01 Jul 1935-14 Oct 1935)
Detached to Training-Course for Officers of the State-Police with the Training-Staff of Artillery (02 Sep 1935-27 Sep 1935)
Transferred to Army Service (15 Oct 1935)
Assigned with the Staff of the 6th Artillery-Regiment (15 Oct 1935-06 Oct 1936)
Detached for Instruction of Staff-Officers with the 16th Division (14 Nov 1935-28 Nov 1935)
Tactics-Instructor at the Army Ammunition School (06 Oct 1936-01 Jul 1937)
Course-Leader at the Army Ammunition School (01 Jul 1937-26 Aug 1939)
Commander of the I. Battalion of the 297th Artillery-Regiment (26 Aug 1939-30 Sep 1939)
Commander of the I. Battalion of the 99th Artillery-Regiment (30 Sep 1939-19 Jan 1940)
Transferred to the 97th Artillery-Replacement-Battalion (19 Jan 1940-07 Sep 1940)
Delegated with the Leadership of the Special-Purpose-Artillery-Regiment-Staff 614 (07 Sep 1940-22 Oct 1940)
Commander of the Special-Purpose-Artillery-Regiment-Staff 614 (22 Oct 1940-18 Mar 1942)
F�hrer-Reserve � Military-District-Command III (18 Mar 1942-05 Aug 1942)
Detached to Army High Command 9 for use as an Artillery-Commander then as a Higher Artillery Commander (05 Aug 1942-19 Sep 1942)
Artillery-Commander 126 (19 Sep 1942-22 Nov 1942)
F�hrer-Reserve OKH � Military-District-Command III (22 Nov 1942-18 Mar 1943)
Artillery-Commander 103 (18 Mar 1943-01 Sep 1943)
Artillery-Commander 502, and at the same time Detached to the General-Staff of the General-Command of the II. Luftwaffe-Field-Corps (then I. Parachute-Corps from 01 Jan 1944) (01 Sep 1943-21 Aug 1944)
F�hrer-Reserve OKH (21 Aug 1944-20 Sep 1944)
Detached to Military-District-Command in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague (20 Sep 1944-00 Apr 1945)
Commander of the 540th Special-Purpose-Division (Landessch�tzen) (00 Apr 1945-08 May 1945)
In US Captivity (09 May 1945-10 May 1945)
Transferred to Soviet Captivity (10 May 1945-00 Oct 1950)
Handed over to Czech authorities and was convicted to death for alleged war crimes, after an appeal this conviction was commuted to 20 years imprisonment (00 Oct 1950-1953)
Under re-trail was convicted to life imprisonment but again commuted to 20 years (1953-1961)
Released (1961)
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