Georg Pfeiffer (5 May 1890 â 28 June 1944) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who commanded the VI Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Pfeiffer was killed in a Soviet air attack on 28 June 1944 at Mogilev during Operation Bagration, the Soviet 1944 summer offensive. Pfeiffer served as a police officer, including as a member of the Weimar Sicherheitspolizei, before the war.