branch commands death_date birth_place allegiance battles birth_date rank article_title name
french army commandant division commander in chief , french west africa officer commanding of , colonial forces in france officer commanding , colonial corps meknes officer commanding , french second army officer commanding , 1st senegalese colonial 20 august 1975 paris france zaian war , battle of france 14 december 1876 lieutenant-general henry freydenberg
 henry freydenberg
henry freydenberg

lieutenant-general henry freydenberg -lrb- 14 december 1876 -- 20 august 1975 -rrb- was a french army officer .
he was born in paris on 14 december 1876 .
in 1919 he was chief of staff to general d'anselme during the french occupation of odessa .
as a colonel in 1921 he commanded a groupe mobile -lrb- a brigade-sized mixed-arms force -rrb- in an operation that ended the 7-year zaian war .
he remained involved in post-war operations in the el ksiba in april 1922 .
from 1924 to 1929 he served as french commandant of meknes in morocco , transferring in 1929 to command the 1st senegalese colonial division in senegal .
from 1931 to 1933 he was commander in chief of french west africa and spent a short period without a posting before becoming , in 1933 , general officer commanding colonial forces in france .
he retired in 1938 but was recalled upon the outbreak of the second world war and became commander of the colonial corps .
on 5 june 1940 , during the battle of france , he took over command of the french second army from charles huntziger , who had transferred to command the fourth army group and who signed the armistice with germany on 22 june .
he subsequently retired from the army for the second , and last , time .
