Artur Martin Phleps (29 November 1881 – 21 September 1944) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and German officer who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS during World War II. An Austro-Hungarian Army officer in World War I, he served in the Romanian Army during the interwar period, before joining the military forces of Nazi Germany in 1941. Seeing action with the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division Wiking...
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Artur Martin Phleps (29 November 1881 – 21 September 1944) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and German officer who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS during World War II. An Austro-Hungarian Army officer in World War I, he served in the Romanian Army during the interwar period, before joining the military forces of Nazi Germany in 1941. Seeing action with the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division Wiking he was later a commander of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen and the V SS Mountain Corps. Phleps was the recipient of numerous decorations, including the The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and the German Cross in Gold.
Artur Phleps was born in Birthälm (present-day Biertan), near Sibiu (Hermannstadt) - a region densely populated by ethnic Germans commonly referred to as Transylvanian Saxons. His father was a physician who came to Transylvania from Austrian Silesia. After finishing primary school in Sibiu,...
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