Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb

Nazi field marshal

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1876

Place of Birth: Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 29-Apr-1956

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb (5 September 1876 – 29 April 1956) was a German field marshal and war criminal in World War II.
Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Max Joseph which granted him the title of nobility.
In the Invasion of France, he commanded Army Group C, responsible for the breakthrough of the Maginot Line. During Operation Barbarossa—the invasion of the Soviet Union—Leeb commanded Army Group North, which advanced through the Baltic States towards Leningrad (present day St.
Petersburg), eventually laying siege to the city.
Units under Leeb’s command committed war crimes against the civilian population and closely cooperated with the SS Einsatzgruppen, death squads primarily tasked with the murder of the Jewish population as part of the Holocaust. Leeb was a beneficiary of Adolf Hitler's bribery scheme for senior Wehrmacht officers, receiving secret, extra-legal gifts of 250,000 Reichsmark in 1941 and of an estate valued at 638,000 Reichsmark in 1943.
Following the war, Leeb was tried in the High Command Trial as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials.
He was convicted of transmitting the Barbarossa Decree and its criminal application by subordinate units and sentenced to three years' imprisonment time served.