Georg Pfeiffer

Dr. Georg Pfeiffer
Dr. Georg Pfeiffer
Born	5 May 1890
Died	28 June 1944 (aged 54); Mogilev, Soviet Union
Allegiance	German Empire; Weimar Republic; Nazi Germany
Service / branch	Army (Wehrmacht)
Years of service	1908–20; 1935–44
Rank	General of the Artillery
Commands	94th Infantry Division; 306th Infantry Division; VI Army Corps;
Battles / wars	World War I World War II 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

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]

^ 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.

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