Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff

Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff
Born25 April 1893
Kamenz, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Died30 January 1946(1946-01-30) (aged 52)
Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Allegiance German Empire (to 1918)
Weimar Republic (to 1933)
Nazi Germany
BranchArmy (Wehrmacht)
Service years1913–1933
1934–1945
RankGeneralmajor
Commands465th Division
"Fortress Mogilev"
ConflictsWorld War I

World War II

AwardsKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross
RelationsWerner von Erdmannsdorff (brother)

Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff (25 April 1893 – 30 January 1946) was a German general during World War II. He was convicted by a Soviet military tribunal for war crimes at the Minsk Trial and executed in 1946.

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