Friedrich-Gustav Bernhard

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Friedrich-Gustav Bernhard (born October 5, 1888 on Gut Radau ; † December 23, 1945 in Bryansk ) was a German lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Bernhard was a professional soldier and served in the First World War . Until 1920 he was held in Russian captivity.

In 1939 he was appointed Army News Leader for the 18th Army . From 1940 to 1941 Bernhard served as a news leader for Army Group A and South . From 1942 he served as commander of the rear army area (Korück 532) and was subordinate to the 2nd Panzer Army .

On March 17, 1944, he was awarded the German Cross in Gold.

Bernhard fell into Soviet captivity and was sentenced to death and executed in Bryansk in late 1945 on charges of war crimes .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich-Gustav Bernhard  in the German Digital Library
  2. ↑ Sven Steenberg : They called me "Gospodin ...": Memories of a Baltic German 1941–1945 , 1991, p. 158f. ISBN 3-7844-2376-0
  3. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall, Veit Scherzer : Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941–1945 History and Holders , Volume II, 2001. ISBN 978-3-931533-45-8 , p. 39.
  4. ↑ Wassili S. Christoforow / Wladimir G. Makarow / Matthias Uhl (eds.): Verhört - The questioning of German generals and officers by the Soviet secret services 1945–1952 , Berlin 2015, pp. 274–281. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
personal data
SURNAME Bernhard, Friedrich-Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Good noise
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1945
Place of death Bryansk