Winrich Behr

Winrich Behr
Born(1918-01-22)22 January 1918
Berlin
Died25 April 2011(2011-04-25) (aged 93)
Hubbelrath
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Service/branchArmy
RankMajor
Unit3./AufklAbt 3
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross
RelationsNicolaus von Below (brother in law)

Winrich Behr (22 January 1918 – 25 April 2011) was a German officer during World War II. He was on the intelligence staff of the Sixth Army during the Stalingrad encirclement. Behr had served Friedrich Paulus, Erwin Rommel, Gunther von Kluge, Walter Model. He was the witness of Model's last hours in Ruhr Pocket.

In January 1943 he was sent by Paulus to try to convince Hitler of the hopelessness of winning the war on the Eastern Front; this mission did not succeed.

After the war, Behr began studying at the University of Bonn. He served as the assistant general secretary of the Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG, or European Economic Union) Commission in Brussels.

A decade after the war, Winrich Behr sought out the burial site of the Field Marshal Walter Model in the isolated woods south of Duisburg, together with Hansgeorg Model, the field marshal's son.

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