Weiden in der Oberpfalz
Linnarz was the commander of the 26th Panzer-Division in Italy from 1 March 1945 until 8 May 1945. He surrendered his division to the British and was then taken into captivity and held in the prisoner-of-war camp at Ghedi, Italy where he made a posthumous award of a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to a major in a Panzergrenadier Regiment without authority. Linnarz was interrogated about his wartime role and recollections on 25 February 1948. He died aged 85 in 1979 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz.