Career
The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Born in Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony, Schmidhuber was commanding officer of the Heer"s 13th Panzer Division during World World War World War II When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, Schmidhuber was supreme commander of German army forces in that country. In that capacity, he had extensive dealings with the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and prevented the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in the face of the advancing Red Army.
Schmidhuber was killed in action in the Battle of Budapest.
Reference in the Wehrmachtbericht Bibliography.