Werner von Erdmannsdorff explained

Werner von Erdmannsdorff
Birth Date:	26 July 1891
Birth Place:	Bautzen, German Empire
Death Place:	Ljubliana, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Child: yes Death Cause: Execution by firing squad
Allegiance:	(to 1918) (to 1933)
Branch:	Army
Serviceyears:	1910–1945
Rank:	General of the Infantry
Commands:	18th Infantry Division LXXXXI Army Corps
Awards:	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Relations:	Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff (brother)

Werner von Erdmannsdorff (27 July 1891 – 5 June 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was married to Helene née von Tschirsky und Bögendorff (1895–1982).^[1]

As last commander of the LXXXXI Army Corps in Yugoslavia, Erdmannsdorff surrendered to the British troops in May 1945.

He was extradited to Yugoslavia and executed without trial on 5 June 1945 by Yugoslav partisans in Ljubljana, alongside generals Gustav Fehn (XV Mountain Corps), Friedrich Stephan (104th Jäger Division) and Heinz Kattner (Feldkommandant of Sarajevo).

He was the older brother of general Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff, who himself would be hanged in Minsk in January 1946 for war crimes.

Awards and decorations

• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 8 March 1942 as Oberst and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 30 (mot.)

References

Bibliography

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Notes and References

1. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser A Band XXVII, Band 132 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, p. 318–319