Georg Pfeiffer
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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
Citations
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 byGeneral der Infanterie Helmuth Volkmann | Commander of 94. Infanterie-Division 21 August 1940 – 29 January 1943 | Succeeded byDestroyed at Stalingrad |
| Preceded byReconstituted after Stalingrad | Commander of 94. Infanterie-Division 1 March 1943 – 2 January 1944 | Succeeded byGeneralleutnant Bernhard Steinmetz |
| Preceded byGeneral der Infanterie Hans Jordan | Commander of VI. Armeekorps 20 May 1944 – 28 June 1944 | Succeeded byGeneral der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling |