Harald Mors, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harald Mors

Germany military officer of World War II

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1910

Place of Birth: Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt

Date of Death: 11-Feb-2001

Profession: paratrooper

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Major Harald-Otto Mors (1910 – 11 February 2001) was a battalion commander with the Fallschirmjäger who planned and led the Gran Sasso raid to rescue Benito Mussolini following his arrest in September 1943.
He received the German Cross in Gold on 26 September 1943.Mors played a key role in planning the raid, and participated as commander of the secondary force that secured the lower cable-car station at the foot of the Gran Sasso mountain as the airborne raid was underway at the mountain top, where Mussolini was held.



Description	German photographer Worked as a war correspondent for the german propaganda at World War II and covered the Gran Sasso raid (Unternehmen Eiche). He later worked as a photojournalist based in Lindau and is co-founder of the fotoform group.
Date of birth/death	13 May 1920	4 August 2006
Location of birth/death	Urbar	Lindau
Work period	1939-2006
Work location	1939-1942 Lichtbildstelle 1942-1944 war corespondent in France and Italy 1949-2006 Lindau, international projects
Authority control	: Q109691 VIAF: 96547454 ISNI: 0000 0001 0927 652X ULAN: 500116841 LCCN: n50006724 GND: 121297713 WorldCat