{{short description|WWII military general officer of Nazi Germany}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Philipp Kleffel|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox military person | name = Philipp Kleffel | birth_date = 9 December 1887 | death_date = {{death date and age|1964|10|10|1887|12|9|df=y}} | birth_place = Birkenfelde, Kreis Znin, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire | death_place = Coburg, Bavaria, West Germany | image = | caption = | nickname = | allegiance = German Empire<br/>Weimar Republic<br/>Nazi Germany | branch = {{tree list}} * Imperial German Army ** Prussian Army * ''Freikorps'' * ''Reichswehr'' * German Army {{tree list/end}} | service_years = 1905–1945 | rank = ''General der Kavallerie'' | commands = 1st Infantry Division<br/>L Army Corps<br/>XVI Army Corps<br/>XXX Army Corps<br/>25th Army | unit = | battles = {{tree list}} * World War I ---- * World War II ** Battle of Belgium ** Battle of France ** Operation Barbarossa ** Siege of Leningrad ** Siegfried Line Campaign ** Liberation of Arnhem {{tree list/end}} | awards = Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross | other_work = }}
'''Philipp Kleffel''' (9 December 1887 – 10 October 1964) was a German general during World War II who commanded several corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.
For 10 days, Kleffel served as the last commander of the short-lived 25th Army in the Netherlands, until it was converted on 7 April 1945 to the Netherlands High Command (Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande), under ''Generaloberst'' Johannes Blaskowitz. Kleffell was part of the general staff when Blaskowitz surrendered OB Niederlande to I Canadian Corps' Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes at Wageningen on 6 May 1945, effectively ending the war in the Netherlands.<ref>[https://www.axishistory.com/list-all-categories/146-germany-heer/heer-static-commands/2470-oberbefehlshaber-niederlande Axis history]</ref>
==Awards and decorations== * Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Class * Frederick August Cross (Oldenburg), 2nd and 1st Class * Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 with Swords on 20 December 1934 * Wehrmacht Long Service Award, 4th to 1st Class for 25 years ** 1st Class on 2 October 1936 * Repetition Clasp 1939 to the Iron Cross 1914, 2nd and 1st Class ** 2nd Class on 28 May 1940 ** 1st Class on 24 June 1940 * Eastern Front Medal on 25 July 1942 * Order of the Cross of Liberty, 1st Class with Oak Leaves and Swords on 29 March 1943 * German Cross in Gold on 10 May 1943 * Spanisch Cruz de Guerra (War Cross) on 18 July 1943 * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 16 February 1942 as ''Generalleutnant'' and commander of 1. Infanterie-Division<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 209.</ref> ==References==
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===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book |last=Fellgiebel |first=Walther-Peer |year=2000 |orig-date=1986 |title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile |trans-title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches |language=German |location=Friedberg, Germany |publisher=Podzun-Pallas |isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6 }} {{refend}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box |before=Generalleutnant Joachim von Kortzfleisch |after=Generalmajor Dr. Friedrich Altrichter |title= Commander of 1. Infanterie-Division |years=14 April 1940 - 12 July 1941 }} {{succession box |before=Generalmajor Dr. Friedrich Altrichter |after=Generalleutnant Martin Grase |title= Commander of 1. Infanterie-Division |years=4 September 1941 - 16 January 1942 }} {{succession box |before=General der Kavallerie Georg Lindemann |after=General der Infanterie Herbert von Böckmann |title= Commander of L. Armeekorps |years=19 January 1942 - 3 March 1942 }} {{succession box |before=General der Infanterie Herbert von Böckmann |after=General der Infanterie Wilhelm Wegener |title= Commander of L. Armeekorps |years=20 July 1942 - 17 September 1943 }} {{succession box |before=Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann |after=Generalleutnant Arnold Burmeister |title= Commander of XXX. Armeekorps |years=16 December 1944 - 25 April 1945 }} {{succession box |before=General der Infanterie Günther Blumentritt |after=None |title= Commander of 25. Armee |years=28 March 1945 - 7 April 1945 }} {{s-end}}
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