Erwin von Witzleben

Job Wilhelm Georg Erwin Erdmann von Witzleben (4 Disamba 1881 - 8 Agusta 1944) ya kasance Janarfeldmarschall na Jamus (Field Marshal) a cikin Wehrmacht da Oberbefehlshaber West (Commander in Chief in the West), a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu . Wani jagora mai makirci a cikin makircin 20 ga Yuli don kashe Adolf Hitler, [1] an sanya shi ya zama Babban kwamandan Wehrmacht a cikin mulkin Nazi, idan makircin ya yi nasara. Bayan da Ehrenhof (Court of Honor) ta sallame shi, an kashe shi, bayan shari'ar nunawa daga Volksgerichtshof (County of People).

Shekaru na farko

An haifi Erwin von Witzleben a Breslau (yanzu Wrocław, Poland) a lardin Prussian na Silesia, ɗan Wilhelm Job Georg Friedrich Erdmann von Witz Leben (1838-1898), Hauptmann (kapitan) a cikin Sojojin Prussia, da matarsa, Therese, née Brandenburg . Iyalin Witzleben dangin Uradel ne na tsoffin sarakuna da jami'an soja da yawa, waɗanda suka samo asali ne daga Witzleben, Thuringia .

Witzleben ya kammala shirin Prussian Cadet Corps a Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie a Silesia da Berlin)" id="mwLQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lichterfelde (Berlin)">Lichterfelde kusa da Berlin, kuma a ranar 22 ga Yuni 1901 ya shiga Grenadier Regiment König Wilhelm I No. 7 a Liegniz, Silesia (yanzu Legnica, Poland) a matsayin Leutnant (Lieutenant). A shekara ta 1910, an kara shi zuwa Oberleutnant (first lieutenant).

A ranar 21 ga Mayu 1907, ya auri Alma Else Margarethe Kleeberg (1885-1942) daga Chemnitz, Saxony tare da wanda ya haifi ɗa da 'yar.

Yaƙin Duniya na farko

A farkon Yaƙin Duniya na farko, Witzleben ya yi aiki a matsayin brigade adjutant a cikin 19th Reserve Infantry Brigade kafin a kara shi zuwa Hauptmann da kuma shugaban kamfanin a cikin Reserve Infantary Regiment No.6 a watan Oktoba na shekara ta 1914. Daga baya, a cikin wannan rukunin, ya zama kwamandan battalion. Rukuninsa ya yi yaƙi a Verdun, yankin Champagne da Flanders da sauran wurare. Ya ji rauni sosai kuma an ba shi Iron Cross, duka aji na farko da na biyu. Bayan haka, an tura shi zuwa horo na Janar Staff kuma ya ga ƙarshen yaƙin a matsayin Babban Jami'in Janar na farko na 121st Division.

Shekaru na Tsakanin Yaƙe-yaƙe

Witzleben (r.) tare da Reichswehr Janaroberst Wilhelm Heye, c. 1930

Ya kasance a cikin Reichswehr Babban ƙarshen yaƙin, Witzleben ya Farko rike mukamin kwamandan kamfanin. A shekara ta 1923, ya sami kansa a matsayin Manjo a cikin ma'aikatan Sashe na huɗu a Dresden. A shekara ta 1928, ya zama kwamandan battalion a cikin 6th Infantry Regiment kuma ya riƙe wannan matsayi a matsayin Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) a shekara mai zuwa. Bayan ci gaba zuwa Oberst (kolonel) a 1931, ya zama kwamandan jami'in 8th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment a Frankfurt an der Oder .

Ba da daɗewa ba kafin Adolf Hitler ya kwace mulki tare da Dokar Enabling ta 1933, Witzleben ya zama kwamandan jami'in [./6th_Infantry_Division_(<i id=]Wehrmacht)" id="mwWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="6th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">Infanterieführer VI a Hanover. An ɗaukaka shi zuwa Janarmajor (babban janar) a ranar 1 ga Fabrairu 1934 kuma ya koma Potsdam a matsayin sabon kwamandan 3rd Infantry Division. Ya gaji Janar Werner von Fritsch a matsayin kwamandan Wehrkreis III wanda ya kasance daga 1934 zuwa 1938. An ɗaukaka shi zuwa Generalleutnant (Lieutenant Janar) kuma a cikin sabuwar Wehrmacht ya zama kwamandan III Army Corps a Berlin a watan Satumbar 1935. A shekara ta 1936, an kara shi zuwa Janar der Infanterie (janar na sojan ƙasa).

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Tun a farkon 1934, Witzleben ya nuna adawarsa ga mulkin Nazi lokacin da shi da janar Erich von Manstein, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, da Gerd von Rundstedt suka bukaci bincike game da mutuwar janar Kurt von Schleicher da Ferdinand von Bredow a cikin Night of the Long Knives .