28 June 1944(1944-06-28) (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 held
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]
^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.
GeorgPfeiffer (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...
Karl GeorgPfeiffer, also known as Louis Pfeiffer (4 July 1805 – 2 October 1877), was a German physician, botanist and conchologist. Louis Pfeiffer was...
Franz GeorgPfeiffer (11 January 1784 – 15 April 1856) was a German legal scholar and politician. Franz GeorgPfeiffer was son of the reformed preacher...
lines. VI Corps finally crumbled completely; its commander, General GeorgPfeiffer, was killed on 28 June after losing contact with his divisions. Achieving...
Christian Pfeiffer (22 July 1815 – 12 April 1879) was a German jurist and politician. Pfeiffer was the son of the Hessian lawyer and politician Franz Georg Pfeiffer...
Wilhelmine Justine Charlotte (nee Pfeiffer; 21 October 1826 - 29 June 1892). Wilhelmine's father was Johann Georg Heinrich Pfeiffer (14 December 1781 - 27 January...
(physicist) (born 1972), German physicist Franz Pfeiffer (officer), German Wehrmacht officer Franz GeorgPfeiffer (1784–1856), German legal scholar and politician...
Palaina macgillivrayi, also known as Macgillivray's staircase snail, is a species of staircase snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in...
encountered molluscan authority Pfeiffer, i.e. Ludwig Karl GeorgPfeiffer, who lived 50 years earlier, from 1805 to 1877. Georg Johann Pfeffer also studied...
the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. This species occurs in: Greece Pfeiffer L. (1853). "Diagnosen neuer Heliceen". Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 10(10):...
Rebecke (née Rüppel). Among his siblings were Franz GeorgPfeiffer and Carl Jonas Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer grew up in Kassel, where his father served as the parish...
– 23 July 1844) Lucie Pfeiffer died giving birth to twin sons, Franz Georg and Christian Hartmann. On April 16, 1785, Pfeiffer married again, this time...
Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer (September 5, 1874–June 14, 1952) was a German malacologist, banker, and patron of the arts. Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer was born in Kassel...
Genus: Palaina Species: P. capillacea Binomial name Palaina capillacea (Pfeiffer, 1855) Location of Lord Howe Island Synonyms Diplommatina capillacea Pfeiff...
02.004 "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Diplommatinidae L. Pfeiffer, 1856". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2020-01-21. Barrientos, Zaidett...
500 m. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Limborelia exquisita (L. Pfeiffer, 1855). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www...
m. Maximum recorded depth is 65 m. Natica livida Pfeiffer, 1840. WoRMS (2010). Natica livida Pfeiffer, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine...
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Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany