Heinrich Eberbach

Heinrich Kurt Alfons Willy Eberbach was a German General der Panzertruppen in the German Army of World War II. He was a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, awarded by Nazi Germany to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

Eberbach was born onNovember 1895 in Stuttgart, at the time the capital of the Kingdom of Wrttemberg in the German Empire. His father, a merchant, died when he was six years old. Subsequently his mother raised him and the other four children by herself. From Easter 1911 onwards, Eberbach attended the Oberrealschule, a secondary school, in Stuttgart and graduated with his Abitur onJune 1914. During late 1914 Eberbach fought in France as a corporal, and by February 1915 he was promoted to Lieutenant.

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