Winrich Behr

Winrich Behr (22 January 1918 – 25 April 2011[1]) was a German officer during World War II.

Behr had served Friedrich Paulus, Erwin Rommel, Gunther von Kluge, Walter Model.

[2] In January 1943 he was sent by Paulus to try to convince Hitler of the hopelessness of winning the war on the Eastern Front; this mission did not succeed.

He served as the assistant general secretary of the Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG, or European Economic Union) Commission in Brussels.

[4] A decade after the war, Winrich Behr sought out the burial site of the Field Marshal Walter Model in the isolated woods south of Duisburg, together with Hansgeorg Model, the field marshal's son.