Heinrich Burchard

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| name = Heinrich Burchard

| birth_date = {{birth-date|5 October 1894}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|4|11|1894|10|5|df=y}}

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| allegiance = {{Flag|German Empire}} (to 1918)
{{Flag|Weimar Republic}} (to 1933)
{{Flag|Nazi Germany}}

| branch = Luftwaffe

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| rank = General der Flakartillerie

| commands = 7th Flak Division
19th Flak Division

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World War II

| awards = Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (?)

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Heinrich Burchard (5 October 1894 – 11 April 1945) was a general in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several flak divisions. Burchard committed suicide on 11 April 1945.

Awards and decorations

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 31 October 1944 as Generalleutnant and commander of the 7th Flak DivisionFellgiebel 2000, p. 150.{{refn|Walther-Peer Fellgiebel has struck Heinrich Burchard from the list of Knight's Cross recipients. He noted that Burchard never received the Knight's Cross but the German Cross in Gold on 15 March 1943 instead.Fellgiebel 2000, p. 510.|group="Note"}}

Notes

References

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=Bibliography=

{{Cite book

|last=Fellgiebel

|first=Walther-Peer

|authorlink=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel

|year=2000

|orig-date=1986

|title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile

|trans-title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches

|language=German

|location=Friedberg, Germany

|publisher=Podzun-Pallas

|isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6

}}

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Category:1894 births

Category:1945 deaths

Category:People from Fulda

Category:Luftwaffe World War II generals