Alfred Jodl

Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl May 1890 October 1946 was a German general who was the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command during World War II. He signed the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich for the then President Karl Dnitz in 1945. He was executed by the Allied Powers for war crimes in 1946.

Alfred Jodl was born out of wedlock as Alfred Josef Ferdinand Baumgrtler in Wrzburg, Bavaria, Germany. He was the son of Alfred Jodl and Therese Baumgrtler, assuming the surname Jodl upon his parents marriage in 1899. He was educated at a military Cadet School in Munich, from which he graduated in 1910. Ferdinand Jodl, who also was to become a General in the Army, was his younger brother. The philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl at the University of Vienna was his uncle. After completing his schooling, Jodl joined the German Imperial Army and received an officers commission into the artillery.

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