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Mihail Lascăr
Born	(1889-11-08)November 8, 1889 Târgu Jiu, Kingdom of Romania
Died	July 24, 1959(1959-07-24) (aged 69) Bucharest, Romanian People's Republic
Service / branch	Romanian Army
Years of service	1910–1950
Rank	General
Commands	1st Mountain Brigade 6th Division Horia, Cloșca și Crișan Division Fourth Army
Battles / wars	Second Balkan War World War I World War II Operation Barbarossa Battle of the Sea of Azov Battle of Crimea Battle of Stalingrad
Awards	Iron Cross, 1st class Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves Order of Michael the Brave, 2nd class
69th Minister of Defense
In office 29 November 1946 – 27 December 1947
Prime Minister	Petru Groza
Preceded by	Constantin Vasiliu-Rășcanu
Succeeded by	Emil Bodnăraș

Mihail Lascăr (Romanian pronunciation: [mihaˈil ˈlaskər]; November 8, 1889 – July 24, 1959) was a Romanian general during World War II and Romania's Minister of Defense from 1946 to 1947.

He was born in Târgu Jiu, Gorj County, Kingdom of Romania, and graduated from the Infantry Officer School in 1910 with the rank of 2nd lieutenant. Lascăr fought in the Second Balkan War, being promoted to lieutenant in 1913. After Romania entered World War I in August 1916, he fought in the Romanian Campaign and was promoted to captain in November 1916. He distinguished himself in the battles of the 1917 Campaign and was promoted to major in September 1917. He then attended the Higher War School from 1919 to 1921 and advanced in rank to lieutenant colonel (1927), colonel (1934), and brigadier general (1939).

On January 10, 1941, he was appointed commanding officer of the 1st Mountain Brigade, an elite military unit of the Third Army. On June 22, 1941, Operation Barbarossa (the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and its allies) commenced, with the Mountain Brigade entering Northern Bukovina. From there, Lascăr and his unit swung East, crossing the rivers Dniester, Bug, and Dnieper. He fought in the Battle of the Sea of Azov, and then in the Battle of Crimea, remaining in charge of the Mountain Brigade until February 10, 1942. On March 11, 1942, he took charge of the 6th Division of the Romanian Third Army, being promoted to major general on October 25, 1942. The next month, he fought at the Battle of Stalingrad. After the Romanian front was broken at the Battle of Stalingrad, General Lascăr took command of the remains of the Romanian Third Army and kept fighting for 4 days. The only unit under his command that managed to escape encirclement was the battalion led by major Gheorghe Răscănescu. Lascăr was taken prisoner on November 22, 1942, but was promoted to Lieutenant-General in February 1943, dated back to the day he was captured. He spent the years 1943–1945 in captivity in the Soviet Union.

On April 12, 1945, Lascăr became commander of the Horia, Cloșca și Crișan Division; the political commissar attached to this Soviet-organized unit was the Communist activist Valter Roman. On September 12, 1945, Lascăr was named commander of the Fourth Army. He was a leader of the Electoral Commission of the Army, in advance of the general election of November 19, 1946. After a coalition led by the Romanian Communist Party won the election (through widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud), he was appointed Minister of Defense, holding this ministerial portfolio from November 29, 1946 until December 27, 1947, when he was replaced by Emil Bodnăraș. He was promoted to General on September 23, 1947.

On June 7, 1947, he signed the decree establishing the football club Asociația Sportivă a Armatei București, now CSA Steaua București. In 1949 he served as commander of the Military Academy in Bucharest. He was then Inspector-General of the Romanian Army until January 12, 1950, when he was discharged from active duty. He died in Bucharest in 1959.

Awards

• German Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class & 1st Class (7 January 1942)(24 September 1941)
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (the first foreign recipient of this decoration)
• Order of Michael the Brave, 2nd class (31 December 1942)

References

1. "Despre părintele Stelei – Generalul Mihail Lascăr" (in Romanian). Steaua Liberă. November 8, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
2. "74 de ani de la înființarea clubului Steaua București!" (in Romanian). CSA Steaua București. June 7, 2021. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
3. Thomas, Franz (1998). Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 2: L–Z [The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 2: L–Z] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. p. 12. ISBN 978-3-7648-2300-9.
4. "Galeria foto a Ministerului Apararii Nationale :: Miniștrii Apărării Naționale (Ministers of National Defence) :: 71_G".

External links

• Victor Nitu. "Maj. general Mihail Lascar". www.worldwar2.ro. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
• "Lascăr, Mihail". www.generals.dk. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
• "Mihail Lascăr, General al Armatei Române". www.fcsteaua.ro.

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Airfields Axis order of battle Red Army order of battle Bombing of Stalingrad in World War II German commanders German units
Operations  Nazi Germany Donnerschlag Winter Storm  Soviet Union Uranus Little Saturn Koltso
Formations Army groups and fronts B Centre Don Don Southwestern Stalingrad Voronezh Armies Axis German 4th Panzer German 6th Hungarian 2nd Italian 8th Romanian 3rd and 4th 1st Guards 2nd Guards 3rd Guards 21st 51st 62nd 64th 65th Corps XIV Panzer XXXX Panzer XXXXVIII Panzer IV VIII XI LI 8th Air Tank 1st 4th 13th 16th 24th 26th others 4th Mechanised 3rd Guards Cavalry 4th Cavalry 8th Cavalry Divisions Panzer 6th 14th 16th 17th 22nd 24th Infantry 3rd Motorised 29th Motorised 60th Motorised 5th 44th 71st 76th 79th 94th 100th 113th 295th 297th 305th 371st 376th 384th 389th others 9th Flak Guards Rifle 13th 15th 33rd 35th 36th 37th 39th Rifle 38th 45th 62nd 64th 91st 93rd 95th 112th 138th 157th 169th 173rd 181st 193rd 196th 204th 214th 221st 248th 284th 302nd 308th 422nd others 60th Cavalry 81st Cavalry
Notable participants Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler Alexander Edler von Daniels Hermann Göring Hermann Hoth Hans-Valentin Hube Erich von Manstein Friedrich Paulus Wolfram von Richthofen Arthur Schmidt Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach Karl Strecker Romania Constantin Constantinescu-Claps Petre Dumitrescu Mihail Lascăr Other Axis members Viktor Pavičić (Croatia) Italo Gariboldi (Italy) Gusztáv Jány (Hungary) Soviet Union Joseph Stalin Hazi Aslanov Vasily Badanov Vasily Chuikov Nikolay Dyatlenko Sasha Filippov Filipp Golikov Vasily Gordov Vasily Grossman Nikita Khrushchev Nikolay Krylov Dmitry Lelyushenko Rodion Malinovsky Kirill Moskalenko Yakov Pavlov Alexander Rodimtsev Konstantin Rokossovsky Alexander Shcherbakov Semyon Timoshenko Aleksandr Vasilevsky Nikolay Voronov Erich Weinert Andrei Yeremenko Vasily Zaitsev Aleksey Zhadov Georgy Zhukov
Significant locations Barmaley Fountain Barrikady Factory Grain Elevator Gumrak Kalach Mamayev Kurgan Pavlov's House Pitomnik Airfield Red October Steel Factory River Don River Volga Tatsinskaya Airfield Tsaritsa Gorge Tractor Plant
In memoriam The Motherland Calls Stalingrad Madonna Sword of Stalingrad Battle of Stalingrad in popular culture
See also Battle of the Caucasus Battle of Kursk Case Blue Operation Barbarossa Second Battle of Kharkov Third Battle of Kharkov Volgograd

• Biography
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• 1889 births
• 1959 deaths
• People from Târgu Jiu
• Romanian Land Forces generals
• Romanian military personnel of the Second Balkan War
• Romanian military personnel of World War I
• Romanian military personnel of World War II
• Romanian prisoners of war
• World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union
• Horea, Cloșca și Crișan Division personnel
• Academic staff of Carol I National Defence University
• Ministers of defence of Romania
• Recipients of the Order of Michael the Brave, 2nd class
• Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves