Platon Chirnoagă
Platon Chirnoaga was a Romanian brigadier-general during World War II.
Chirnoagă was born in 1894 in Poduri, Bacău County, one of eight children of Gheorghe Chirnoagă, a teacher, and his wife, Olimpia; one of his brothers, Eugen Chirnoagă, became a chemist.
He fought in World War I in Transylvania and Moldavia, and after that in the Hungarian–Romanian War.
In 1941, Chirnoagă was Chief Operation 3rd Army and then Vice Chief of Staff 3rd Army. He became Commanding Officer 7th Artillery Regiment and subsequently Vice Chief of Staff 3rd Army in 1942. In 1944, he was Commanding Officer 4th Artillery Brigade, General Officer Commanding 4th Division, and finally a German prisoner. In 1945, Chirnoagă was Minister of Defence while in exile in Nazi Germany.
On 8 May 1945 he was arrested and interned at the Glasenbach camp, an Allied POW camp near Salzburg where members of Nazi organizations and war criminals were held. He was freed in April 1947, after which he lived in Austria and France, and, after 1968, in Stuttgart, where
he died in 1974.
