Georg Pfeiffer
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Dr. Georg Pfeiffer |
| birth_date | |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Mogilev, Soviet Union |
| image | Georg Pfeiffer 600 dpi.jpg |
| allegiance | German Empire |
| Weimar Republic | |
| Nazi Germany | |
| branch | Army (Wehrmacht) |
| serviceyears | 1908–1920 |
| 1935–1944 | |
| rank | General of the Artillery |
| commands | {{Plainlist |
| battles | World War I |
| awards | Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross |
| :: |
| name = Dr. Georg Pfeiffer | birth_date = | death_date = | birth_place = | death_place = Mogilev, Soviet Union | image =Georg Pfeiffer 600 dpi.jpg | caption = | nickname = | allegiance = German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany | branch = Army (Wehrmacht) | serviceyears = 1908–1920 1935–1944 | rank = General of the Artillery | commands = {{Plainlist|
- 94th Infantry Division
- 306th Infantry Division
- VI Army Corps | unit = | battles = World War I
- Invasion of Poland
- Battle of France
- Operation Barbarossa
- Battle of Kiev (1941)
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Italian Campaign
- Battle of Monte Cassino--
Mogilev Offensive | awards = Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross | laterwork =
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. Pfeiffer served as a police officer, including as a member of the Weimar Sicherheitspolizei, before the war.
Awards and decorations
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 15 January 1943 as Generalleutnant and commander of 94. Infanterie-Division
References
Citations
Bibliography
- {{Cite book| title = Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile | trans-title = The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches | last = Fellgiebel | first = Walther-Peer | year = 2000 | author-link = Walther-Peer Fellgiebel | orig-year = First published 1986 | publisher = Podzun-Pallas | location = Friedberg, Germany | language = de | isbn = 978-3-7909-0284-6
| before=General der Infanterie Helmuth Volkmann | after=Destroyed at Stalingrad | title= Commander of 94. Infanterie-Division | years=21 August 1940 – 29 January 1943 | before=Reconstituted after Stalingrad | after=Generalleutnant Bernhard Steinmetz | title= Commander of 94. Infanterie-Division | years=1 March 1943 – 2 January 1944 | before=General der Infanterie Hans Jordan | after=General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling | title= Commander of VI. Armeekorps | years=20 May 1944 – 28 June 1944
| portal1=Biography
References
- "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).
- 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.
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