Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (7 November 1892 – 1 May 1964) was a General der Infanterie of the German Wehrmacht who commanded the German 15th Army in the Netherlands during the closing months of World War II.
Biography[]
Gustav-Adolf von Zangen was born on 7 November 1892 in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire, and he served in the Imperial German Army during World War I. During World War II, he commanded the German 17th Infantry Division in Russia at the time of Operation Barbarossa, and he led a corps in France and an army detachment in Italy before taking command of the German 15th Army in the Pas de Calais in 1944. His army was withdrawn to Walcheren on the Scheldt River in the Netherlands after Operation Overlord and the Allied liberation of France, and his forces fought against the armies of Canada and the United Kingdom during their attempted liberation of Holland. In April 1945, he was taken prisoner in the Ruhr Pocket, and he died in Hanau, West Germany in 1964.