Fritz Schlieper

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Fritz Schlieper (4 August 1892 – 4 June 1977) was a German army officer who fought in World War I and World War II, and rose to the rank of Generalleutnant.

Born in Koldromb, Posen, he joined the army in 1911. After World War I he stayed in the army of the Weimar Republic and continued in the Wehrmacht after the Nazis came to power. From 1935 to 1939 he led 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 as Chief of Staff for Frontier Sector Center. From 1939 to 1940 he also served as Quartermaster for the 18th Army.

During Operation Barbarossa he commanded the 45th Infantry Division in the early battles, including the defense of Brest Fortress, and earned the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. In 1942 he was sent to Slovakia to lead a German military mission at the Slovak Ministry of Defence, but was dismissed after a dispute with Slovak Minister Ferdinand Čatloš. From 1944 to 1945 he was Chief of Special Staff II.

After the war he lived in Nürnberg and died there on 4 June 1977.