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March 1945, regarding the career of Major Hans Jochen Friedel – staff officer to General Kinzel (Heer). It seems that Major Friedel is up for a promotion to a Generalstabsoffizier (general staff officer) is a specially trained military officer, usually holding the rank of Captain or higher, who has completed advanced training at a military academy. They specialize in operational planning, strategy, logistics, and intelligence, serving in staff functions rather than direct command positions.
* Signed by the (Deputy Chief of the Armed Forces Operations Staff, WFSt) Carl Klyser and General Alfred Jodl on back of sheet. Document is 8×12, toned, signed in ink, just a few short weeks before the end of the war.

Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl (10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946) was a German military officer and convicted war criminal who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout World War II.
After the war, Jodl was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, planning, initiating, and waging wars of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity at the Allied-organized Nuremberg trials. The principal charges against him related to his signing of the criminal Commando and Commissar Orders. Found guilty on all charges, he was sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in 1946.

Karl Christian Kleyser (7 December 1909 in Minden; † 12 June 1996 in Großburgwedel) was a German military officer. He served in the Reichswehr, the Wehrmacht and was finally a major general in the army of the Bundeswehr. During the Second World War, he served in the last year of the war from March 1944 to 10 May 1945 as Group Leader and First General Staff Officer (Ia) of the Army Operations Department in the Wehrmacht Command Staff and from 10 May to 23 May 1945 as a liaison officer OKW to the Allied Headquarters in Reims. From 1949 Kleyser was an employee in the Gehlen organization until he was taken over as a retired colonel in the army on 1 June 1956 in the newly established Bundeswehr. In 1970 he retired with the rank of major general.

Major Hans Jochen Friedel was present at the German Surrender at Luneburg Heath and was killed in a car accident in France in May 1945.