The 1st Battle of Kharkov was named so by a German field army born in which year ?
First Battle of Kharkov The 1st Battle of Kharkov, so named by Wilhelm Keitel, was the 1941 tactical battle for the city of Kharkov (now "Kharkiv") (Ukrainian SSR) during the final phase of Operation "Barbarossa" between the German 6th Army of Army Group South and the Soviet Southwestern Front. The Soviet 38th Army was ordered to defend the city while its factories were dismantled for relocation farther east.
Volker Wieker Volker Wieker (born 1 March 1954 in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony) is the Chief of Staff ("Generalinspekteur", lit. "Inspector General") of the "Bundeswehr", the German armed forces, and a general of the German Army. As the highest-ranking officer of the Bundeswehr he is the government's chief military adviser and the general ultimately in charge of its operations. Trained as an artillery officer, Wieker served in every major foreign Bundeswehr deployment since 1996, including Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.