Fedor von Bock |Fedor von Bock| Generaloberst Fedor von Bock,
1939 |Nickname||"Holy Fire of Küstrin" "Der Sterber"| 3 December
1880| |Died||4 May 1945 |Allegiance|| German Empire (to 1918)
Weimar Republic (to 1933) |Years of service||1898–1945|
|Rank||Field Marschal (German: Generalfeldmarschall)| |Commands
held||Army Group North, 1939 Army Group B, 1940 Army Group
Center, 1941 Army Group South, 1942 |Awards||Pour le Mérite
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich
Fedor von Bock (3 December 1880 – 4 May 1945) was a German Field
Marshal who served in the German army during the Second World
War. As a leader who lectured his soldiers about the honor of
dying for the German Fatherland, he was nicknamed "Der Sterber"
(literally, ambiguously, and ironically: "The Dier"). Bock
served as the commander of Army Group North during the Invasion
of Poland in 1939, commander of Army Group B during the Invasion
of France in 1940, and later as the commander of Army Group
Center during the attack on th