Unser Giftzwerg (lit. "our venomous dwarf"; "our nasty little man")
Born
(1886-12-25)25 December 1886 Gumbinnen, Kreis Gumbinnen, Province of East Prussia, German Empire (present-day Gusev, Gusevsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
Died
10 December 1971(1971-12-10) (aged 84) Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Buried
Bergäcker Cemetery
Allegiance
German Empire
Kingdom of Prussia (1905–1918)
Weimar Republic (1918–1933) Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
Branch
Imperial German Army
Prussian Army
Reichsheer German Army
Years of service
1905–1945
Rank
Generaloberst
Commands held
16th Infantry Division 14th Company, 13th Württembergish Infantry Regiment III Battalion, 3rd Prussian Infantry Regiment XII Army Corps XXXXIII Army Corps 4th Army 1st Panzer Army Army Group Vistula
Battles/wars
See battles
World War I
Western Front
German invasion of Belgium (1914)
Battle of Verdun (1916)
Eastern Front
East Prussian Campaign
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes (1914)
Battle of Łódź (1914)
World War II
Western Front
Battle of France
Eastern Front
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Białystok-Minsk (1941)
First Battle of Kiev (1941)
Battle of Moscow (1941)
Orsha offensives (1943)
Battle of the Dukla Pass (1944)
Battle of Berlin (1945)
Battle of the Oder-Neisse (1945)
Battle of the Seelow Heights (1945)
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Relations
Georg Heinrici (uncle) Gerd von Rundstedt (cousin)
Signature
Gotthard Fedor August Heinrici (German:[ˈɡɔthaʁthaɪnˈʁiːtsi]; 25 December 1886 – 10 December 1971)[1] was a German general during World War II. Heinrici is considered to have been the premier defensive expert of the Wehrmacht. His final command was Army Group Vistula, formed from the remnants of Army Group A and Army Group Center to defend Berlin from the Soviet armies advancing from the Vistula River.
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under the newly appointed commander of Army Group Vistula, General GotthardHeinrici. When the Soviet offensive resumed on 16 April, two Soviet fronts...
the 4th Panzerarmee, which opposed the 1st Ukrainian Front. General GotthardHeinrici replaced Heinrich Himmler as commander of Army Group Vistula on 20...
any real military knowledge, proved inadequate to the task; General GotthardHeinrici replaced Himmler as commander of Army Group Vistula on 20 March, subsequent...
1944, when he had to assume command of the 4th Army from General GotthardHeinrici. Soon after, Operation Bagration against Army Group Center began on...
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men. However, the new commander of Army Group Vistula, Commander GotthardHeinrici, who had replaced Himmler, did not agree with the personnel addition...
assigned to command the Fourth Army, replacing the former commander, GotthardHeinrici, who went on leave. In mid-July 1942 he was given command of the Second...
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(part of Army Group Vistula under the command of Colonel-General GotthardHeinrici). The corps was still holding on to Cottbus. While the bulk of Army...
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Chief of Staff Helmuth Weidling, Commander of the Berlin Defense Area GotthardHeinrici, Commander of Army Group Vistula O'Reilly & Dugard 2014, p. 231. O'Reilly...
Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front attacked the northern flank of General GotthardHeinrici's Army Group Vistula, held by Hasso von Manteuffel's 3rd Panzer Army...
December 3, 1942 – Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889–1962) January 1, 1943 – GotthardHeinrici (1886–1971) January 1, 1943 – Hans von Salmuth (1888–1962) January...
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troops of the German Army Group Centre captured Babruysk. General GotthardHeinrici considered the largely-evacuated city "a dump consisting mainly of...
Ukrainian Front before destroying it. Steiner explained to General GotthardHeinrici that he did not have the divisions to perform this action and the...
the Germans referred to as the Southwestern Front. Generaloberst GotthardHeinrici, commander of Army Group Vistula, who defended Berlin against three...
commander of the LVI Panzer Corps. The LVI Panzer Corps was part of GotthardHeinrici's Army Group Vistula. As commander of that corps, Weidling began his...
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German Empire
Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
Imperial German Army
Reichsheer
German Army
Generaloberst
