Gotthard Heinrici

Gotthard Heinrici was a general in the German Army during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. He was the commanderinchief of the Army Group Vistula, remnants of Army Group Centre, in front of Berlin in April 1945.

Heinrici was born onDecember 1886 in Gumbinnen, East Prussia, a province in the Kingdom of Prussia. Today it is Gusev, Russia. He was the son of Paul Heinrici, a local minister of the Evangelical Church in Germany and later superintendent and member of the consistory, and his wife Gisela, ne von Rauchhaupt. As a child, Heinrici attended the Kniglichen FriedrichsGymnasium in Gumbinnen, a secondary school, where he graduated with his Abitur in 1905.

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