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Posted: October 12, 2003 10:51 am
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Hi,
Could anyone tell me whether the onetime commander of Divizia 1 Garda, colonel Constantin Popescu was promoted to General de Brigada before the end of the war in 1945.

Could anybody tell me his db&dd?

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Posted: October 12, 2003 01:50 pm
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He does not appear as one of the commanders of the Guard Division during WWII.
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Posted: October 12, 2003 04:12 pm
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According to: Armata Romana in al dolilea razboi mondial 1941-1945 / ed. by Alesandru Dutu, Florica Dobre & Leonida Loghin. Bucuresti, 1999, p. 156. Colonel Constantin Popescu served as commander of the Guard division for two short periods 23rd Feb. to 10th Apr. 1943 and again 20th Dec. 1943 to 6th Jan. 1944. Whether other generals (Sova, Voiculescu & Korne) nominal were in command for those periods the book doesn’t say.

Are the book wrong?

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Posted: October 12, 2003 08:01 pm
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Korne was never the commander of the Guard Division! :shock:
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Posted: October 13, 2003 05:11 am
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Korne was never the commander of the Guard Division!  :shock:


Sorry, I take that back. There is a 5 month gap in the list, so he could have been the CO of the Guard Division.
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Posted: October 13, 2003 01:56 pm
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According to the above-mentioned source, the following served as commander of the Guard Division:

1st Jun. 1940 – 10th Sep. 1940: General Paul Teodorescu
10th Sep. 1940 – 24th Jan. 1941: General Gheorghe Georgescu
25th Jan. 1941 – 23rd Feb. 1943: General Nicolea Sova
23rd Feb. 1943 – 10th Apr. 1943: Colonel Constantin Popescu
10th Apr. 1943 – 20th Dec. 1943: General Constantin Vioculescu
20th Dec. 1943 – 6th Jan. 1944: Colonel Constantin Popescu
6th Jan. 1944 – 10th Mar. 1944: General Radu Korne*
10th Mar. 1944 – 21st Jun. 1944: General Radu Niculescu-Cociu
22. Jun. 1944 – 12th Jul. 1944: General Stefan Opris
12th Jul. 1944 – 14th Oct. 1944: General Petre Antonescu
4th Nov. 1944 – 20th Mar. 1945: General Ioan Dumitriu
20th Mar. 1945 – 3rd Apr. 1945: General Gheorghe Marinescu
3rd Apr. 1945 – 27th Aug. 1945: General Ioan Dumitriu

* Korne was also in command of the 8th Cavalry Division during this period.

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