Alfred Becker (20 August 1899 – 26 December 1981) was a German engineer and artillery officer who served during the First and Second World Wars. During the Second World War he took captured British and French vehicles and refurbished and rebuilt them to supply the German army with armoured fighting vehicles. With his engineering and organizational skills, he converted the Hotchkiss plant on the outskirts of Paris into a vehicle modification and fabrication center. He used the vehicles to mobilize German guns, rocket launchers and mortars. Working with Altmärkische catenary Gmbh (Alkett), steel shielding was shipped from Germany to armour the vehicles. The men from his artillery command did the metal work and conversion on 1,800 recovered vehicles.
During the winter of 1943-44 Becker's work focused on equipping the 21st Panzer Division. He used the tracked carriages of French light tanks to mobilize the 7.5 cm Pak 40 anti-tank gun and the 10.5 cm leFH 18 howitzer. Becker had the tank turrets removed, mounted the guns upon the chassis and placed steel plates around the crew compartment to give them some measure of protection. The vehicles were formed into a fire support unit, the Sturmgeschütz Abteilung 200. Becker was made the commander of this motorized assault gun battalion, and led the unit during the battles in Normandy. Some of Becker's unit escaped the encirclement at Falaise and they retreated across France and into Belgium. Becker was captured in Alsace on the French/German border in December 1944.
AlfredBecker (20 August 1899 – 26 December 1981) was a German engineer and artillery officer who served during the First and Second World Wars. During...
The mortars and half-tracks were converted by Major AlfredBecker's workshop (Baukommando Becker) in Paris. All 20 barrels could be traversed 360° and...
officer Alfred G. Becker, American politician Alice Becker-Ho (born 1941), French poet Alisson Becker (born 1992), Brazilian footballer Annika Becker (born...
1148a dated 1Dec42." AlfredBecker notes: "By Christmas 1942 almost all of Becker’s men had reached Paris. In exchange for the men Becker provided the commander...
as artillery tractors. Most were converted by Major AlfredBecker's workshop (Baustokommando Becker) into armoured half-tracks. These were used to fill...
based on the Panzer II Ausf. F chassis. Alkett had earlier worked with AlfredBecker to convert captured French armoured vehicles into self-propelled artillery...
"Sirvilauad loevad aega". Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Becker, Alfred (2006). "A magic spell "powered by" a lunisolar calendar". Asterisk...
pp. 235–242. Becker, Alfred, Franks Casket: Zu den Bildern und Inschriften des Runenkästchens von Auzon. Regensburg, 1973. Becker, Alfred, Franks Casket...
Feuchtinger prevailed upon Major AlfredBecker, a friend of his who was a mechanical engineer. Feuchtinger had championed Major Becker's efforts to make use of...
PaK 40 in north Italy. Armoured SOMUA MCL Kégresse track modified by AlfredBecker for use by the Wehrmacht SOMUA Kégresse track tractor SOMUA OP5 Paris...
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from the front to the plant site. Alkett is the company that Major AlfredBecker worked with, initially in early 1942 to help create self-propelled artillery...
equipment as carrier platforms for heavier guns, directed by Major AlfredBecker, an artillery officer who was a mechanical engineer by trade. He had...
various anti-tank guns. With German half-tracks in short supply, Major AlfredBecker of the 21. Panzerdivision (which in 1944 was stationed near Caen in...
Gary Stanley Becker (/ˈbɛkər/; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...
vehicle, forty of which would be modified by the Baukommando Becker (named after AlfredBecker) in France to eventually serve with the 21st Panzer Division...
including the poet Nikolaus Lenau, newspaper editor August Schmidt, critic AlfredBecker, violinist Karlz Holz, Count Laurecin, and composer Otto Nicolai who...
Munitionstransportkraftwagen auf Lorraine Schlepper. In July and August 1942, Major AlfredBecker directed the conversion of 170 of these vehicles into the 7.5 cm PaK40/1...
Haubarg or Hauberg, a typical farmhouse type on the Eiderstedt peninsula Becker, Alfred: "Der Siegerländer Hauberg". Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft einer...
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