Georg Pfeiffer
Dr. Georg Pfeiffer | |
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Army (Wehrmacht) | |
| Years of service | 1908–20 1935–44 |
| Rank | General of the Artillery |
| Commands held |
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| Battles/wars | World War I
Mogilev Offensive † |
| Awards | Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross |
Georg Pfeiffer (5 May 1890 – 28 June 1944) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who commanded the VI Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Pfeiffer was killed in a Soviet air attack on 28 June 1944 at Mogilev during Operation Bagration, the Soviet 1944 summer offensive.[1] Pfeiffer served as a police officer, including as a member of the Weimar Sicherheitspolizei, before the war.[2]
Awards and decorations
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 15 January 1943 as Generalleutnant and commander of 94. Infanterie-Division[3]
References
Citations
- ^ Veal, Stephen Ariel. "The collapse of the German army in the East in the summer of 1944 (Volume 1)". The Collapse of the German Army in the East in the Summer of 1944 (Volume 1). 1: 376.
- ^ Hans Horst Manitz: Erinnerungsbuch der 94. Infanterie Division an die Kriegsjahre 1939–1945. Lieferung 2: Einsatz in Rußland 1941 bis Anfang 1943. Hans Horst Manitz, Hrsg. Kameradschaft der 94. Inf.Div., 1985, S. 1.
- ^ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 275.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
