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Georg Otto Hermann Balck (7 December 1893 – 29 November 1982) was a highly decorated officer of the German Army who served in both World War I and World War II, rising to the rank of General der Panzertruppe.
Pour le Mérite. The list contains recipients of the Pour le Mérite military class. Since the foundation, a total of 5,430 persons received this award. The Pour le Mérite was the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order for officers until the end of World War I.
Hermann Kriebel, NSDAP supporter; Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, SS General; Walter Krüger, SS General; Georg von Küchler, German Army Field Marshal; Otto Lancelle, German Army General; Friedrich Landfried, German lawyer, State Secretary and Luftwaffe Major; Otto Lasch, German Army General; Johann von Leers, SS Major and Propaganda Ministry official
Hermann Balck (1893–1982) 21 September 1944: 24 December 1944: 94 days (1) Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz (1883–1948) 24 December 1944 ... Tessin, Georg (1980).
B. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski; Hans-Ulrich Back; Hermann Balck; Eleonore Baur; Hans Baur; Helmut Bechler; Fritz Becker (general) Wilhelm Behrens; Heinrich Bennecke
Hermann Balck (1893–1982) 5 August 1944: 21 September 1944: ... Tessin, Georg (1973). Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945. Vol.
Armeegruppe Balck: Army Group Balck: Hermann Balck: Previously "Army Group Fretter-Pico" (see below); designation in early 1945 for German 6th Army and Hungarian 3rd Army. [3]: 5 Armeegruppe Blumentritt: Army Group Blumentritt: Günther Blumentritt: Formed in the final days of the war to oversee the German forces along the North Sea coast. [1]: 13
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grades were based on four separate enactments.The first enactment, Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 1573 of 1 September 1939 instituted the Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz), the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes).