Georg Pfeiffer
- 94th Infantry Division
- 306th Infantry Division
- VI Army Corps
World War II
- Invasion of Poland
- Battle of France
- Operation Barbarossa
- Battle of Kiev (1941)
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Italian Campaign
- Battle of Monte Cassino-->
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
- Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [First published 1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [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] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
| Military offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by General der Infanterie Helmuth Volkmann | Commander of 94. Infanterie-Division 21 August 1940 – 29 January 1943 | Succeeded by Destroyed at Stalingrad |
| Preceded by Reconstituted after Stalingrad | Commander of 94. Infanterie-Division 1 March 1943 – 2 January 1944 | Succeeded by Generalleutnant Bernhard Steinmetz |
| Preceded by General der Infanterie Hans Jordan | Commander of VI. Armeekorps 20 May 1944 – 28 June 1944 | Succeeded by General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling |
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