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| 1891 | Birth |  |
| 24th Jan Genthin Birth of Otto Moritz Walter Model |
| 1915 | Medal | |
| Awarded the Iron Cross , 1st class |
| 1919 | Captain | |
| 1 of 4,000 officers who remain in the Reichswehr |
| 1932 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment |
| 1932 | Lieutenant Colonel | |
| Appointedieutenant-Colonel |
| 1932 | YTP | |
| Introduces the Youth Training Programme, Reichskuratorium |
| 1934 | Colonel | |
| Appointed Colonel |
| 1934 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment |
| 1935 | Major | |
| Appointed Major-General, heads section 8 in the Army General Staff |
| 1937 | Diplomacy | |
| Visits Spain & evaluates tactics & weapons used by both sides during the civil war |
| 1938 | Chief of Staff | |
| 10th Nov Appointed Chief-of-Staff of IV Corps |
| 1938 | Diplomacy | |
| Sent as a spy to check the defensive fortifications along the Sudeten border |
| 1939 | Capture of Prague | |
| Mar Prague Enters Prague |
| 1939 | Chief of Staff | |
| Appointed Chief-of-Staff of the 16th Army |
| 1940 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander of the 3rd Panzer Division |
| 1940 | Lieutenant General | |
| 1st April Appointedieutenant-General |
| 1941 | Barbarossa | |
| Bug Bridge Captures the Bug Bridge leading to Brest-Litovsk |
| 1941 | Commander | |
| 26th Oct Appointed Commander of XXXXI Panzer Corps |
| 1941 | General | |
| Appointedanzer general |
| Appointed Panzer General |
| 1941 | Invasion of Russia | |
| Bug Bridge Captures the Bug Bridge leading to Brest-Litovsk |
| Orel Leads an encirclement of Russian troops between Orel & Briansk |
| 1941 | Siege of Moscow | |
| Dec Kalinin Model must fight to keep the bridgeheads on the Volga near Kalinin |
| 8th Dec Moscow Reaches within 20km of Moscow before the Red Army force Model back |
| 1941 | Typhoon | |
| Dec Moscow Model captures the bridges of the Moscow reservoirs in support of the 4th Army |
| Dec Kalinin Model must fight to keep the bridgeheads on the Volga near Kalinin |
| Dec Moscow The assault on Moscow is resumed |
| 8th Dec Moscow Reaches within 20km of Moscow before the Red Army force Model back |
| 1942 | Battle of Rzhev | |
| 5th Feb Rzhev Begins to attack the Russians in order to hold Rzhev & stop the Russian advance |
| 5th Feb Rzhev Traps a large number of Russian units, the line is closed with 26,000 Russians dead |
| 1st Mar Rzhev Russian forces are trapped & then destroyed |
| 1942 | Colonel | |
| 28th Feb Appointed Colonel-General |
| 1942 | Commander | |
| 18th Jan Appointed Commander of the 9th Army |
| 1942 | Medal | |
| 28th Feb Awarded the Oak Leaf to the Knight's Cross |
| 1942 | Siege of Moscow | |
| 18th Jan Moscow Consolidates the front during the retreat from Moscow |
| 1942 | Siege of Rhzev | |
| 24th Nov Rhzev The 4th battle for Rhzev begins |
| 24th Nov Rhzev The Russians lose 42,000 men |
| 1942 | Unternehmen Blau | |
| Rhzev Leads the Summer Offensive in the Rzhev sector |
| Rhzev When the 3rd battle for Rhzev ends the Russians have casualties of 380,000 dead |
| 24th Nov Rhzev The 4th battle for Rhzev begins |
| 1943 | Battle of Kursk | |
| 5th July Kursk Leads the northern arm of the siege of Kursk |
| 12th July Kursk Final day of the abortive siege of Kursk as the Russians launch a counter-offensive |
| 1943 | Battle of Rhzev | |
| 3rd April Rhzev Awarded the Swords to the Oak Leaf for the withdrawal from Rhzev |
| 3rd April Rhzev The Russians lose 42,000 men |
| 1943 | Citadel | |
| Orel A Russian thrust breaks through & threatens the 9th Army's main supply depot at Orel |
| Orel Gets Hitler to rescind his no wothdrawal command & withdraws from the Orel |
| Kursk Hitler plans a summer offensive to take the Russian salient around Kursk |
| Hitler postpones Opertation Citadel to July |
| Kursk Model opposes the operation |
| 13th July Hitler cancels Operation Citadel |
| 15th July The Russians begin an assault & force the 9th Army on the defensive |
| 20th July Forbidden by Hitler to make any withdrawals |
| 1943 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander Army Group South |
| 5th Nov Appointed Fuehrer Reserve senior Commander |
| 1943 | Medal | |
| 3rd April Rhzev Awarded the Swords to the Oak Leaf for the withdrawal from Rhzev |
| 1943 | Unternehmen Blau | |
| Jan Rhzev Germany retains possession of Rhzev |
| Jan Rhzev Hitler agrees to withdraw from the Rhzev sector |
| 22nd Feb Rhzev Model prepares for the withdrawal from Rhzev |
| 1944 | Army Group Narva | |
| Created to prevent the Soviet breakthrough into the Baltic |
| Creates Army Group Narva out of Army Group Nth |
| 1944 | Battle of Arnhem | |
| 17th Sep Arnhem 1st day of the Battle of Arhem |
| 26th Sep Arnhem Halts the Allied advance |
| 1944 | Battle of Bulge, The | |
| 2nd Dec Berlin At a conference Model presses for the "small solution", Hitler refuses |
| 16th Dec Ardennes Ordered by Hitler, Model prefers just to take out the USAsalient at Aachen |
| 16th Dec Ardennes The closest the Germans get to Antwerp is Dinant, well to the east of the Maas |
| 27th Dec Ardennes Hitler orders the "small solution", the battle is lost & Germans retreat into Germany |
| 1944 | Battle of Falaise Gap | |
| 21st Aug Falaise The final pocket of resistance in the Falaise Gap is removed by the Alies |
| 1944 | Battle of Riga | |
| 13th Feb Riga Luga is liberated by the Russians |
| 13th Feb Riga The 16th & 18th Armies are ordered back to the Panther Line |
| 1944 | Capture of Minsk | |
| 11th July Minsk Army Group Centre loses 28 Divisions, the way to Poland is open to the Red Army |
| 1944 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander of Army Group Narva |
| Jan Appointed Commander of the Army Group North, Jan-March |
| 31st Mar Appointed Commander of the Army Group Ukraine |
| 2nd April Reaches his new HQ with orders to hold the Carpathian Mountains |
| 28th June Appointed Commander of the Army Group Centre |
| 17th Aug Appointed Commander of Army Group B |
| 5th Sep Reverts to just Commanding Army Group B |
| 1944 | General Field Marshal | |
| 1st Mar Appointed General Feldmarschall, the youngest in German military history |
| 1944 | Medal | |
| 16th Aug Awarded Diamonds to the Knight's Cross |
| 1944 | Red Army | |
| 22nd June The Red Army begins its offensive against Army Group Centre |
| 1944 | Siege of Antwerp | |
| 16th Dec Ardennes The closest the Germans get to Antwerp is Dinant, well to the east of the Maas |
| 1944 | Siege of Leningrad | |
| Jan Leningrad The siege of Leningrad is officially lifted |
| 1944 | Siege of Luga | |
| 13th Feb Luga Luga is liberated by the Russians after the battle of Riga |
| 1944 | Supreme Commander | |
| 17th Aug Appointed Supreme Commander of the West |
| 1945 | Battle of Bulge, The | |
| 15th Jan Ardennes Final day of the Battle of the Bulge, gives way to the Allied advance |
| 1945 | Battle of Ruhr | |
| April Ruhr Hitler orders the destruction of the Ruhr, Model refuses |
| April Ruhr Hitler refuses to let Army Group B withdraw |
| April Ruhr Model holds out for 18 days until handing over 300,000 troops |
| April Ruhr The Allies encircle Model's Army |
| 1945 | Burial | |
| 21st April Lintorf Shoots himself in woods near Rattingen, buried where he had shot himself under an oak |
| 1945 | Death | |
| 21st April Lintorf Death of Otto Moritz Walter Model, commits suicide |
| 1945 | Sucide of Model | |
| 21st April Lintorf Shoots himself in woods near Rattingen, buried where he had shot himself under an oak |
