# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gotthard-heinrici
# Generated: 2026-09-01T01:20:33.984Z

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description: "A German general whose name became shorthand for holding impossible lines: Heinrici earned the Wehrmacht's reputation as its best defensive tactician, the man they sent when retreat wasn't allowed and the front was already collapsing."
tagline: "German general (1886–1971)"
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birthDate: "1886-12-25"
deathDate: "1971-12-13"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Feodor August Gotthard Heinrici was born on 25 December 1886 and spent the Second World War becoming the German army's go-to expert when a position needed holding against long odds. By 1945, with the Reich crumbling, he was given Army Group Vistula — a formation scraped together from the shattered remnants of Army Group A and Army Group Center — and told to defend Berlin from Soviet forces pushing west from the Vistula River. It was the kind of assignment that defined his war: arrive late, inherit wreckage, delay the inevitable. He died on 10 December 1971.