Max pepper

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Max Pfeffer (born June 12, 1883 in Geldern , † December 31, 1955 in POW camp 5110/48 Woikowo near Iwanowo , Soviet Union ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the artillery in World War II .

Life

Max Pfeffer was a son of the district court director Carl Josef Pfeffer (1853-1927) and belonged to the civil line of those Pfeffer von Salomon . His sister Martha (* 1905) was married to Karl Tillessen .

Pfeffer joined the army as an ensign in mid-October 1902. In early 1904 he was a lieutenant in the field artillery regiment No. 22 in Münster and served as an officer in the First World War .

After the war he switched to the Reichswehr . In early April 1931 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and in early October 1933 to colonel . From October 1934 he was commander of Artillery Regiment 16 in Munster for two years and then with his promotion to Major General in the same position in Artillery Regiment 26. It followed his assignment as artillery commander (Arko 20) in Hamburg , im June 1938 the character as lieutenant general and from mid-November 1938 his assignment as senior artillery officer. In August 1939 he was promoted to lieutenant general.

At the beginning of the Second World War he was Arko 44 from September 1939. From April 5, 1940 to January 16, 1943 he was commander of the newly established 297th Infantry Division . The division was not brought into combat until June 1941 in the tank battle near Dubno-Lutsk-Rivne . She was involved in the conquest of Zhitomir (July 1941), Uman (August 1940), Kharkov (November 1940) and Rostov (November / December). From July to August 1942 he took part with the division in the XXIV Army Corps in the Kessel Battle near Kalatsch .

Gravestone at the General Cemetery in Cherntsy

Then Pfeffer took over in January 1943, since December 1942 as general of the artillery, the command as commanding general of the IVth Army Corps . During the Battle of Stalingrad at the end of January 1943, he surrendered to the Soviet troops and became a prisoner of war . In 1954, Pfeffer fell ill.

He died on December 31, 1955 in Soviet captivity in POW camp 5110/48 Woikowo and was buried in a general cemetery in Cherntsy.

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  1. ↑ a b c Torsten Diedrich: Paulus: the trauma of Stalingrad: a biography . Schöningh, 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76403-4 , pp. 568 ( google.de [accessed on May 28, 2020]).
  2. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4844-5 , pp. 11 ( google.de [accessed on May 28, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Cherntsy German Soldiers Cementary, Ivanovo area. ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stalingrad.net
  4. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Pepper, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently general of the artillery in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Funds
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1955
Place of death POW camp 5110/48 Woikowo in Tschernzy, Soviet Union