Friedrich Bernhard

Friedrich Bernhard (October 5, 1888 – December 29, 1945) was a German Lieutenant-General of the Cavalry, serving during World War II as a Panzer commander and a recipient of the German Cross in Gold on 17 March 1944. Captured by the Red Army, he was sentenced to death by a Soviet tribunal at Bryansk on December 29, 1945 for atrocities committed in the Bryansk area, and hanged on that day.