PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Baer, von, Bern
Date of birth: March 20th, 1911 (Berlin/Prussia, Germany)
Date of death:  November 27th, 1981 (Rösrath/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Nationality:  German
BIOGRAPHY: 
In service from 1st April 1930. After the war he became a prisoner of war with the Soviet Union. After his release in 1956 he went into service with the Bundeswehr. He retired in 1968 with the rank of Generalmajor.
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: September 21st, 1939
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: May 29th, 1940
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Oberstleutnant im Generalstab
Unit: Ia 16.Panzer-Division / 4.Panzerarmee / Heeresgruppe Mitte
Awarded on: January 13th, 1944
Details: 2539th Award.
Submitted on January 4th 1944.
Preliminary Document dated January 17th 1944.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Oberstleutnant im Generalstab
Unit: Chef des Stabes Fallschirm-Panzer-Korps „Hermann Göring“
Awarded on: February 28th, 1945
Details: 761st Award.
 
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Picture source:   - Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv
Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
- Federl, C., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, Germany, 2000
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
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