Eberbach, Heinrich

Eberbach, Heinrich

▪ German military officer
born November 24, 1895, Stuttgart, Germany
died July 13, 1992, Notzingen

      German tank force commander in World War II.

      Eberbach entered the German army in July 1914 and fought on the Western Front during World War I, reaching the rank of lieutenant before he was wounded and taken prisoner by the French in 1915. After being freed in a prisoner-of-war exchange, he was sent to the Middle Eastern theatre, where he was captured by the British. At war's end he returned to Germany and became a lieutenant in the police force. He was a major in the police when he reentered the German army in 1935. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1937 and took command of an armoured regiment the following year.

      Eberbach led tank units in the campaigns against Poland (1939) and France (1940). In the invasion of the Soviet Union (1941), he commanded an armoured brigade in an unsuccessful raid against Moscow. He rose steadily as a capable tank commander on the Eastern Front. He was promoted to brigadier general in March 1942, took command of the 4th Panzer (armoured) Division that April, and was promoted to major general in January 1943. He served as an inspector general of armoured troops until he was hurriedly appointed to command Panzer Group West in its attempts to stem the Allied breakout from Normandy in northern France. Eberbach succeeded General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (Geyr von Schweppenburg, Leo) in this post on July 3, 1944, taking command of several panzer divisions, which were subsequently reorganized into Panzer Group Eberbach and then the Fifth Panzer Army. He was unable to halt the advancing Allied tide, however, and was soon relieved of command of the panzer units, which, under the command of Josef Dietrich (Dietrich, Josef), were subsequently encircled and almost completely destroyed in the Falaise pocket. Eberbach was captured by British troops on August 31 and imprisoned until his release in 1948.

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