Bork, Max Herman, born on 01-01-1899, in Lasdehnen,
East Prussia, joined the Army on 31-07-1916, as a Fahnenjunker in the Kaiserlichen Armee, with the I. Ersatz-Batailon des Infanterie-Regiments 176
. He followed a training as Machine Gunner with the Fortress-MG-Kompanie in Thorn and during World War I, he was all the time in the fields with the 176th Westpreußisches Infanterie-Regiment. In battle on the Western Front, in Flandern,
near Armentieres, near Ypern-La Bessee, Monche-Bapaume and near Cambrai-St. Quentin he was wounded
in the face as a Company leader, on 28-10-1918. He was awarded with the Iron Cross.
After the war a member of the 76th Volunteer Infantry Regiment in battle against the Frei Corpses
. He was allowed to stay in the new Reichswehr and promoted to Major in the General Staff. At the beginning of World War II, he is assigned to the Staff of Transport Department of the OKH
and active on the Western front. As Oberst he gets the command of the LIII Armeekorps and is awarded with the German Cross, for his efforts on the Russian front. Mid February 1943 he is released of his post and lands in the Führer Reserve (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know). On 10-03-1943 he is given the command of the 6th Army under General Egon von Neindorff
Neindorff was killed in battle, age 51 on 15-04-1944 in Tarnopol. On the 55th birthday of the Führer, 20 April 1943, promoted to Generalmajor, he again is released of his command and in the infamous Führer Reserve in April 1944. Bork becomes the rank of Generalleutnant on 01-07-1944, shortly after D-Day.
He is awarded with the Iron Cross for his excellent leading in the retreating battles along the river Rhine by commanding General des LXXX. Armee-Korps General der Infanterie, Franz Beyer












Death and burial ground of Bork, Max Herman.





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