Peter Leer (1899-1918) was an Imperial German Army private who was killed in action while serving on the Western Front of World War I.
Biography[]
Peter Leer was born in Germany in 1900, and he studied math during his youth; he was also known as a ladies' man. He and his high school classmates Albert Kropp, Paul Baumer, Friedrich Muller, Franz Kemmerich, and Joseph Behm were convinced to join the Imperial German Army in 1918 by their nationalistic teacher Kantorek, and they were assigned to Lieutenant Stanislaus Katzinsky's 2nd Company on the Western Front in France. He was mortally wounded when a shell tore through his hip during the Hundred Days Offensive.
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Leer as a student