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GENERAL DER ARTELLERIE KARL BECKER VISOR Price: 4500 Euro Shipping Germany: 8 Euro
Shipping EU: 18 Euro Becker ( 14. September 1879 in Speyer; † 8. April 1940 in Berlin ) was appointed General Major in 1933, and was, since 1932 chief of the Heeres Waffen Amt.
He was also chief of the Rocket department, and co-founder of Heeresversuchanstalt Peenemünde. He commidded suicide in 1940, after beeing blamed for ammunition-shortages. He still recieved a state funeral, attented also by Mr. Hitler among others. |
