Lorenz, Walter, born 17-09-1884, in Friedenau,
joined the Army on 01-10-1903, age 19, in the 76th Infanterie Regiment and was in the fields of the first war with this Regiment as a battalion commander and Oberleutnant. The 76th Reserve Division initially fought on the Eastern Front. Its baptism of fire was in the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes. It participated in several battles in the course of the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive, including the siege of Kovno, the battle on the Neman River, and the battle of Vilnius. From November 1915 to September 1916, the division remained in positional warfare by Riga. It was then transferred to Romania, where it fought until the armistice on the Romanian front. In March 1918, the division was transferred to the Western Front and went into the line in Lorraine. It saw action in the 
and resisted the Allies’ Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. Allied intelligence rated the division as third class He remained temporary in the new Reichswehr 
and retired on 31-07-1924. Lorenz entered the Hermann Goering‘s
Luftwaffe Service 
on 22-08-1934 as a Chief Supply Office in the Staff of Higher Air Office Dresden, age 49 and Major. With the outbreak of World War II he was as an Oberst in the Staff of Air Fleet Command I, until 30-04-1940. Commander Air Group 4 in Dresden, to 30-04-1941 and General with Special Duties of the commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe until 19-12-1941. Senior Quartermaster of Luftwaffe Command Centre to 30-11-1942. His last command, now a Generalmajor, was as Military Replacement Inspector of Düsseldorf to 17-04-1945 and landed in US captivity.
General-Lieutenant Walter Lorenz, one-time recruiting officer of the German Luftwaffe, hangs one of his shirts to dry at the POW camp at Hersfeld, Germany on 24-11-1945, in the American zone, where 278 Generals and Admirals are confined. The officers must do their own work and are not permitted to have orderlies. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll).
Death and burial ground of Lorenz, Walter.
In arrest 17-04-1945 and released two years later on 03-03-1947, Lorenz lived in Bad Herrenalb, where he at the old age of 90 died, on 20-02-1975. He is buried on the village cemetery of Bad Herrenalb.
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