Date of birth:

September 23rd, 1906 (Reval, Estonia)

Date of death:

July 12th, 1973 (Niederfüllbach, Bavaria, Germany)

Nationality:

German

At the outbreak of the second World War Bernd von Pezold was attached tot the Generalstab des Heeres, Quartiermeister III 2.Abteilung.
Later het was transferred tot Oberquartiermeister IV 12. Abteilung. Fremde Heere Ost. Foreign Armies East, staff intelligence specialist on the subject.
On 31 July 1942 Major von Pezold was assigned tot the 14. Panzer Division as Ia.
On 13 Janaury 1943 Oberstleutnant i.G. Bernd von Pezold took temporary command of the remnants of the 14. Panzer Division as the divisional commander Lattmann took over command of the also trapped 389. Infanterie Division.
On 20 January 1943 Generaloberst Hans Hube requested to A.O.K 6 over Heeresgruppe Don following officers who were trapped at Stalingrad to be flown out and assist him to coordinate the Stalingrad Airlift. Rudolf Sieckenius (kommandeur Panzer Regiment 2), Bernd von Pezold (Ia 14. Panzer Division), Heinrich Seidel Ib (14. Panzer Division), Erich Domaschk (Kompanieführer Panzer Regiment 103), Erwin Engelbrecht (01 14. Panzer Division) and Wolfgang Ledig (IIa 14. Panzer Division).
Seidel (flight 17 on 20 january 1943), Sieckenius, Domaschk flew out. Pezold, Engelbrecht and Ledig went in Russian captivity.
On 30 january 1943 Bernd von Pezold was promoted Oberst i.G.
By then the 14. Panzer Division was already bled to death. From several sources we know that in the last days of the German 6. Armee at Stalingrad Pezold became Ia of Kampfgruppe Wolff. (Oberst Wilhelm Wolff – 9. Flak ? or was it another Wolf(f) Kampfgruppe ? )
Oberst i.G. Bernd Leonid von Pezold went in Russian captivity on 31 January 1943. He was released from Russian captivity disabled on 16 January 1956.

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• Photo: Oberst i.G. Bernd Leonid von Pezold
  
• - NAZI JERMAN: Foto Pertempuran Stalingrad