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1944 – Erwin von Witzleben. A German Field Marshal, Witzleben was a German Army conspirator in the 20 July Bomb Plot to kill Hitler. Witzleben, who would have been Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht in the planned post-coup government, arrived at Army Headquarters (OKH-HQ) in Berlin on 20 July to assume command of the coup forces. He was ...

December 04, 1881 - August 08, 1944. Erwin von Witzleben. A career officer, Erwin von Witzleben was among those allowed to remain in service in the Reichswehr after the First World War. He was married to Else Kleeberg, with whom he had a daughter and a son. Commander of military district III (Berlin) from 1934 on, Witzleben advocated the ...

Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben (4 December 1881 – 8 August 1944) was a German officer, by 1940 in the rank of a Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall), and army commander in World War II. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot, he was designated to become commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht armed forces in a post-Nazi regime. Erwin von Witzleben was born in Breslau in the ...

Erwin von Witzleben. Erwin von Witzleben was born in Breslau, Germany on 4th December, 1881. He joined the German Army in March 1901 as a second lieutenant in the 7th Grenadier Regiment. On the outbreak of the First World War Witzleben he was appointed Adjutant of the 19th Reserve Brigade. He served on the Western Front where he won the Iron Cross.

Field Marshall General von Witzleben was a German army officer and in WWII, an army commander and a resistance fighter in the July 20th Plot. Sentenced to death and hanged shortly thereafter. Full name: Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben Field Marshall General von Witzleben was a German army officer and in WWII, an army commander and ...