Fritz Schlieper was born 4 August 1892 in
Koldromb,
Posen. In 1911, he joined the
German Army. After the First World War, Schlieper continued to serve in the
Weimar Republic's
Reichswehr and when the Weimar Republic was replaced by
Nazi Germany, he remained in the
Heer component of the
Wehrmacht and from 1935 to 1939 commanded the 17th Artillery Regiment. In 1939, he was promoted to
Generalmajor and served as Chief of Staff for Military District XIII and during the
Invasion of Poland, served as the Chief of Staff for Frontier Sector Center. From 1939 to 1940, he was also the Quartermaster for the
18th Army. During
Operation Barbarossa, he commanded the
45th Infantry Division in one of the initial battles, the
Defense of Brest Fortress. For his part in these battles, he would be awarded the
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. In 1942, he was transferred to
Slovakia to lead Nazi German military mission at Slovakian Ministry of Defence. He was released from his position after conflict with Minister General
Ferdinand Čatloš. From 1944 until the war's end, he was the Chief of Special Staff II. After the war, Schlieper lived in
Nürnberg until his death on 4 June 1977. ==Awards==