Erwin von Witzleben

Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben was a German officer, by 1940 in the rank of Generalfeldmarschall , and army commander in the Second World War. A leading conspirator in theJuly plot, he was designated to become CommanderinChief of the Wehrmacht in a postNazi regime had the plot succeeded

Erwin von Witzleben was born in Breslau in the Prussian province of Silesia, the son of Georg von Witzleben , a Hauptmann in the Prussian Army, and his wife Therese ne Brandenburg. The Witzleben dynasty was an Uradel family of old nobility and many officers, descending from Witzleben in Thuringia.

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