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German general and Knight's Cross recipients
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Mainz
Death
18 March 1979 (aged 82 years)
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Bad Tölz
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82 years
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Biography
Eugen-Heinrich Bleyer (20 November 1896 – 18 March 1979) was a highly decorated Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, Nazi Germany's highest award for valour. Bleyer was captured by Yugoslavian troops in May 1945. In 1949 he was sentenced to death, but his sentence was changed to 18 years imprisonment and he was released in 1952.
Awards and decorations
- Iron Cross (1914)
- 2nd Class (5 October 1915)
- 1st Class (13 August 1916)
- Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 (15 January 1935)
- Iron Cross (1939)
- 2nd Class (27 January 1940)
- 1st Class (16 June 1940)
- Order of the Cross of Liberty 2nd Class with Swords (23 September 1941)
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 14 December 1941 as Oberstleutnant and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 379
- Mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht (15 February 1944)
- Merit Cross 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (17 August 1967)
- Fellgiebel 2000, p. 115.
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