(1880-12-03)3 December 1880 Cüstrin, Prussia, German Empire (now Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland)
Died
4 May 1945(1945-05-04) (aged 64) Oldenburg in Holstein, Nazi Germany
Buried
Friedhof Lensahn
Allegiance
German Empire (1898–1918)
Kingdom of Prussia
Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
Nazi Germany (1933–1942)
Service/branch
Imperial German Army
Prussian Army
Reichsheer
Wehrmacht
Years of service
1898 – 1942
Rank
Generalfeldmarschall
Commands held
Reichswehr:
II. (light) Battalion, 4th Prussian Infantry Regiment (1924)
4th Prussian Infantry Regiment (1926)
1st Cavalry Division
Military District II (1931)
Wehrmacht:
Gruppenkommando 3 (1935)
Gruppenkommando 1 (1938)
Army Group North (August 1939)
Army Group B (October 1939)
Army Group Center (October 1941)
Army Group South (January 1942)
Battles/wars
See battles
World War I
Western front
German spring offensive (1918)
Eastern Front
Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive (1915)
Brusilov Offensive (1916)
World War II
Invasion of Poland
Battle of Gdynia (1939)
Western Front
Battle of the Netherlands
Battle of Maastricht (1940)
Battle of Belgium
Battle of the Lys (1940)
Battle of France
Battle of Dunkirk (1940)
Eastern Front
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Białystok-Minsk (1941)
Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Yelnya Offensive (1941)
Battle of Moscow (1941)
Battles of Rzhev (1942)
Operation Blue
Awards
Pour le Mérite
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Spouse(s)
Mally Lonny Anna Marga Klara von Reichenbach
(m. 1905; died 1910)
Wilhelmine Gottliebe Jenny von Boddien
(m. 1936; died 1945)
Children
1
Relations
Erich von Falkenhayn (uncle)
Eugen von Falkenhayn (uncle)
Signature
Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich Fedor von Bock (3 December 1880 – 4 May 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) who served in the German Army during the Second World War. Bock served as the commander of Army Group North during the Invasion of Poland in 1939, commander of Army Group B during the Invasion of France in 1940, and later as the commander of Army Group Center during the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941; his final command was that of Army Group South in 1942.
Bock commanded Operation Typhoon, the ultimately failed attempt to capture Moscow during the autumn and winter of 1941. The Wehrmacht offensive was slowed by stiff Soviet resistance around Mozhaisk, and also by the rasputitsa, the season of rain and mud in Central Russia.[2] The Soviet counteroffensive soon drove the German army into retreat, and Bock was subsequently relieved of command by Adolf Hitler.
A monarchist, Bock was not heavily involved in politics and he did not sympathize with plots to overthrow Adolf Hitler. Bock was also uncommonly outspoken, a privilege Hitler extended to him only because he had been successful in battle.[2]
Bock, his second wife and his stepdaughter were killed by a strafing Royal New Zealand Air Force fighter-bomber on 4 May 1945 as they traveled by car towards Hamburg.
^Turney 1971.
^ abBattle of Russia, Battlefield: Battles that Won the Second World War—Series 2. Universal Pictures Video. 2 May 2005
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ever went into action. Major FedorvonBock was in overall command of the Arbeitskommandos and the Black Reichswehr; Kurt von Schleicher, who later became...
the German General Staff. His only sister Olga von Falkenhayn was the mother of Fieldmarshal FedorvonBock. Falkenhayn joined the Prussian Army on 2 August...
which in turn had been activated just a few days prior, on 26 August. FedorvonBock, commanding general of 2nd Army, became the first commanding general...
The first commanding officer of Army Group Centre was Field Marshal FedorvonBock, who would lead it until he was relieved on 18 December 1941 after the...
Prussian General of Cavalry. His only sister Olga von Falkenhayn was the mother of Field Marshal FedorvonBock. Becoming a cadet at the age of 11, Falkenhayn...
sustained in the crash is unknown. He was replaced at Army Group South by FedorvonBock and given a state funeral. Reichenau's uncle was an ardent Nazi and...
the Soviet Union, he was assigned to lead the 2nd Army as a part of FedorvonBock’s Army Group Centre. He led the 2nd Army in 1941 through the Battle of...
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Barbarossa, his Corps was part of Army Group Centre under Field Marshal FedorvonBock. As did all commanders of the German corps on the Eastern Front during...
Hitler and were unwilling to bite the hand that fed them so generously. When Field Marshal FedorvonBock was sacked by Hitler in December 1941, his first...
1941–42 was the coldest of the twentieth century. On 30 November, General FedorvonBock claimed in a report to Berlin that the temperature was −45 °C (−49 °F)...
six German armies made up Army Group Centre, commanded by Feldmarshal FedorvonBock. North of Smolensk-Moscow Highway Middle Sector Bryansk and Points South...
Group North, commanded by General FedorvonBock, during the invasion of Poland. Salmuth continued as Chief of Staff to Bock, when the latter was given command...
– 1 June 1940 – Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt and FedorvonBock 1 June 1940 – 18 July 1944 – Alexander Freiherr von Falkenhausen This situation continued...
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from northern Prussia. Colonel General FedorvonBock commanded Army Group North, comprising General Georg von Küchler's 3rd Army, which was to strike...
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