Fedor von Bock

German field marshal (1880–1945)

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Lived 1880–1945, aged 65Germany

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1880–1945
Aged 65
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Updated 2026-06-21

A Prussian field marshal who led the largest land invasions of the Second World War — Poland, France, and the drive on Moscow — then argued himself out of favor with Hitler and spent the last years of the war in forced retirement.

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Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich Fedor von Bock was born 3 December 1880 and rose through the Imperial German Army as a staff officer in the First World War, continuing his climb through the interwar Reichswehr. Given his first command in 1935, he orchestrated the Anschluss and the seizure of the Sudetenland, then commanded Army Group North in Poland in 1939 and Army Group B in France in 1940, earning his field marshal's baton. In 1941 he led Army Group Center into the Soviet Union and directed Operation Typhoon, the attempt to take Moscow, which stalled in the mud of rasputitsa and broke again…

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