Georg Pfeiffer (5 May 1890 – 28 June 1944) was a general in the
Wehrmacht
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of
Nazi Germany
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who commanded the VI Army Corps. He was a recipient of the
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Pfeiffer was killed in an air attack on 28 June 1944 at
Mogilev
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during
Operation Bagration
Operation Bagration (; russian: Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (russian: Белорусская наступательная оп ...
, the Soviet 1944 summer offensive.
Awards and decorations
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Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 15 January 1943 as ''
Generalleutnant
is the Germanic variant of lieutenant general, used in some German speaking countries.
Austria
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'' and commander of 94. Infanterie-Division
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1890 births
1944 deaths
German Army generals of World War II
Generals of Artillery (Wehrmacht)
German commanders at the Battle of Stalingrad
German Army personnel killed in World War II
German Army personnel of World War I
People from Wolfenbüttel (district)
Recipients of the Gold German Cross
Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Military personnel from Lower Saxony