Eberhard Rodt Explained

Eberhard Rodt
Birth Date:4 December 1895
Birth Place:Munich, German Empire
Death Place:Munich, West Germany
Branch:Army (Wehrmacht)
Rank:Generalleutnant
Commands:22nd Panzer Division
15th Panzergrenadier Division
Battles:World War II
Awards:Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

Eberhard Rodt (4 December 1895 – 14 December 1979) was a German general during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

On 25 August 1941, he took an important role in the German capture of Dnipropetrovsk. Rodt, then a colonel within 13th Panzer Division, seized a Soviet pontoon bridge across the Dnieper river after Red Army forces had destroyed all fortified bridges across the river in the city. Rodt's ad hoc decision allowed German forces to establish a preliminary bridgehead on the east shore of the river, providing cover for the forces of the III Army Corps to begin their crossing.[1]

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Bibliography

. Walther-Peer Fellgiebel . 2000 . 1986 . Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile . The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches . German . Friedberg, Germany . Podzun-Pallas . 978-3-7909-0284-6.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Wettstein, Adrian E. . Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization . University of Rochester Press . 2012 . 9781580464079 . Kay, Alex J. . 45–72; here: 55 . Urban Warfare Doctrine on the Eastern Front . Rutherford, Jeff . Stahel, David.
  2. Thomas 1998, p. 216.
  3. Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 381.
  4. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 293.
  5. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 84.