Ferdinand Schörner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ferdinand Schörner

German Field Marshal

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1892

Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 02-Jul-1973

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ferdinand Schörner (12 June 1892 – 2 July 1973) was a German army officer and Nazi war criminal.
He was a general and later Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.
He commanded several army groups and was the last Commander-in-chief of the German Army. Schörner is commonly represented in historical literature as a simple disciplinarian and a slavish devotee of Hitler's defensive orders, after Germany lost the initiative in second half of World War II 1942/43.
More recent research by American historian Howard Davis Grier and German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser depicts Schörner as a talented commander with "astonishing" organizational ability in managing an army group of 500,000 men during the fighting in late 1944 on the Eastern Front.
He was harsh against superiors as well as subordinates and carried out operations on his own authority against Hitler's orders when he considered it necessary, such as the evacuation of the Sõrve Peninsula.Schörner was a convinced Nazi and became well known for his brutality.
By the end of World War II he was Hitler's favorite commander.
Following the war he was convicted of war crimes by courts in the Soviet Union and West Germany and was imprisoned in the USSR, East Germany and West Germany.
At his death in 1973 he was the last living German Field Marshal.