Claes, Heinrich, born on 01-01-1884 in Mühlhausen,
Thüringen, entered the Army on 03-03-1904, age 20, as a Fahnenjunker in the 70th Infantry Regiment. At the beginning of World War I he was the Flying Group Leader of the 4th Army, not involved in the first war he was retired, on 30-10-1919, 35 years old. He rejoined Hermann Goering’s
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Service as a Supplemental Officer, on 30-11-1934, until 31-12-1938. With the outbreak of World War II he was adviser in the Staff of the Commander with Luftwaffe Army Group North. Army Group North, “Heeresgruppe Nord”, under command of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock ,
was a German strategic echelon formation, commanding a grouping of field armies during World War II. The army group was subordinated to the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH)
, the German army high command, and coordinated the operations of attached separate army corps, reserve formations, rear services and logistics. Army Group North had successive the following commanders, Fedor von Bock,
Field Marshal Wilhelm Freiherr von Leeb,
General der Artillerie, Georg Küchler,
Field Marshal, Walter Model,
Generaloberst der Kavallerie, Georg Lindemann,
Generaloberst der Infanterie, Johann Friessner,
General Field Marshal der Gebirgstruppe, Ferdinand Schörner

























Death and burial ground of Claes, Heinrich.





