Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Gentlemen,
I am hoping someone could kindly confirm the promotion dates for Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg.
I have been reading about him and have come across three conflicting dates for his promotion to Oberstleutnant (01 Oct 18/20 Dec 1920) Which is the correct date?
Also, are there dates recorded for the ranks of Fahnenjunker (1894?), Fähnrich (1896?) etc?
Many thanks
Pierce
I am hoping someone could kindly confirm the promotion dates for Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg.
I have been reading about him and have come across three conflicting dates for his promotion to Oberstleutnant (01 Oct 18/20 Dec 1920) Which is the correct date?
Also, are there dates recorded for the ranks of Fahnenjunker (1894?), Fähnrich (1896?) etc?
Many thanks
Pierce
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Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Hi Luftkrieg
Promotion to Oberstleutnant 28.12.1920 with RDA 1.10.1920 (137), im RWM kommandiert zum Stabe des Infarnterie-Führers VI
Best regards
Santiago
Promotion to Oberstleutnant 28.12.1920 with RDA 1.10.1920 (137), im RWM kommandiert zum Stabe des Infarnterie-Führers VI
Best regards
Santiago
Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Santiago
Thank you for your reply and help. It is appreciated.
May I ask what source you are using? Is it by chance the 1924 Ranklist? I have the 1925 but by then von Blomberg was already promoted to Oberst.
Many thanks
Pierce
Thank you for your reply and help. It is appreciated.
May I ask what source you are using? Is it by chance the 1924 Ranklist? I have the 1925 but by then von Blomberg was already promoted to Oberst.
Many thanks
Pierce
Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Is there any record of when von Blomberg was promoted to the ranks of Fahnenjunker and Fähnrich?
Thanks
Pierce
Thanks
Pierce
Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
According to "Die Generale des Heeres", Blomberg started his service as Leutnant (then Sekondelieutenant) in 1897 and never held a lower rank.
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Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Thank you for your reply askropp.
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Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Hi,
Werner von Blomberg
??.??.1945-14.03.1946 US-Kriegsgefangenschaft
Pls
Aisin
Werner von Blomberg
??.??.1945-14.03.1946 US-Kriegsgefangenschaft
Pls
Aisin
Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
My notes say he was captured / arrested on 04.06.1945 in Bad Wiessee.
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Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Confirmed by his biography (Kirstin A. Schäfer: Werner von Blomberg: Hitlers erster Feldmarschall. Eine Biographie)askropp wrote:My notes say he was captured / arrested on 04.06.1945 in Bad Wiessee.
Apparenly US officials paid him their first visit on 30.05.1945 in his house in Bad Wiessee. He was placed under arrest on 04.06.1945 and spent the following years in prisons in Nürnberg and Oberursel im Taunus. On 16.02.1946 he was transferred to the hospital, where on 20.02.1946 he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer (cancer of the large intestine).
Jake
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Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Tks, askropp & Jake
Aisin
Aisin
Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
When did von Blomberg officially retire from the Army?
Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
On 04.02.1938.
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Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Thank you for confirming. This is the date I have but I wondered why, if dismissed on 27.01.1938, it took over a week later, with Blomberg out of the country, for him to retire from the Army. Was it an administrative process perhaps? I had read he was followed to Capri to have some papers signed pertaining to his resignation.askropp wrote:On 04.02.1938.
Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
Are these seniority dates accurate:
31.08.1933: Generaloberst (with seniority from 30.08.1933)?
20.04.1936: Generalfeldmarschall (with seniority from 01.04.1936)?
31.08.1933: Generaloberst (with seniority from 30.08.1933)?
20.04.1936: Generalfeldmarschall (with seniority from 01.04.1936)?
Re: Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg Promotion Dates
No
von Blomberg's RDA as Generalfeldmarschall was 20.04.1936 according to the DAL for 07.10.1936 and 12.10.1937
Regards
John
von Blomberg's RDA as Generalfeldmarschall was 20.04.1936 according to the DAL for 07.10.1936 and 12.10.1937
Regards
John