The name matches Gerhard Peter, an army first lieutenant who received the Knight's Cross on 15 November 1941. He commanded the 3rd company of Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon 16, the combat engineers of an armoured division, during the 1941 campaign in the Soviet Union. No further biography was found.
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