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Theo Helmut Lieb

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Years of service
  
1910–45

Rank
  
Generalleutnant


Name
  
Theo-Helmut Lieb

Service/branch
  
German Army

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Nickname(s)
  
TheobaldLion of Cherkassy

Allegiance
  
German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany

Battles/wars
  
World War IWorld War IIBattle of FranceOperation BarbarossaSiege of LeningradCase BlueBattle of Kiev (1943)Cherkassy PocketGothic Line OffensiveSpring Offensive 1945

Died
  
March 20, 1981, Freudenstadt, Germany

Awards
  
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Battles and wars
  
World War I, Battle of France

Commands held
  
306e division d'infanterie, 112th Infantry Division, 42e corps d'armee, 34th Infantry Division

Similar People
  
Wilhelm Stemmermann, Erich von Manstein, Otto Wohler, Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Ludvik Svoboda

Theo-Helmut Lieb (25 November 1889 – 20 March 1981) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who held several divisional commands during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

Awards and decorations

  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 7 February 1944 as Generalleutnant and commander of XXXXII. Armeekorps
  • 400th Oak Leaves on 18 February 1944 as Generalleutnant and commander of XXXXII. Armeekorps

    • References

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