Gustav Fehn

Gustav Fehn (21 February 1892 – 5 June 1945) was a German general during World War II.

Fehn was born in Nuremberg in 1892 and entered the Royal Prussian Army in 1912. He fought in World War I as a junior officer and was awarded the Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd class, the Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg, the Friedrich-August Cross of Oldenburg and the Wound Badge in black.¹ He remained in the peacetime Reichswehr. During World War II, Fehn served in the Afrika Korps from November 1942 to January 1943, LXXVI Panzer Corps from July–August 1943, the XXI Army Corps from October 1943 – July 1944 and then the XV Mountain Corps in the Balkans until his surrender to Yugoslav partisans, who shot him without trial on 5 June 1945.

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st Class
• Iron Cross
  • 2nd Class (20 September 1939)
  • 1st Class (12 October 1939)
• Panzer Badge in Silver
• German Cross in Gold (7 July 19
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 5 August 1940 as Oberst and commander of Schützen-Regiment 33²

References

Bibliography

• Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Militaer-Verlag.  978-3-938845-17-2.