Böckmann, Herbert Ernst Adolf Wilhelm von, born on 24-07-1886 in Bremen,
was a German General who commanded the L Armeekorps during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. He joined the Army on 14-03-1905 at the age of 19, in the 1st Badische Leib Grenadier Regiment 109
in Karlsruhe, as a Fähnrich. He came to the war academy and entered World War I as a pilot of the 8th Field Flyer Regiment. Böckmann was in the “Freikorps Hülsen ” after the war, like many infatuated WWI soldiers and from 01-10-1920 allowed in the new Reichswehr.









For 10 days, Kleffel served as the last commander of the short-lived 25th Army in the Netherlands, until it was converted on 07-04-1945 to the Netherlands High Command (Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande), under Generaloberst Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz.
Kleffell was part of the General Staff when Blaskowitz surrendered OB Niederlande to I Canadian Corps’ Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes
at Wageningen on 6 May 1945, effectively ending the war in the Netherlands.



Chief of the Army Personal Office, General der Infanterie, died after bomb attack in the Wolfsschanze, Rudolf Schmundt




Death and burial ground of Böckmann, Herbert Ernst Adolf Wilhelm von.

He was indeed retired on 31-03-1943, at the young age of 56. His son Werner a Oberleutnant was killed in Russia, age 25, also in 1943. Herbert Böckmann lived after the war in Baden Baden, as General der Infanterie, Kommandeur der XXV Korps, Friedrich von Choltitz
Herbert died at the old age of 87, on 10-03-1974 in Baden Baden and is buried on the cemetery of Lichtenthal in Baden Baden. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, Stalingrad disaster,
is buried on the Hauptfriedhof of Baden Baden. The Generalmajor der Infanterie, Field Commander, Eugen Bilharz
, Generalmajor der Luftnachrichtentruppe, Kommandeur Luftsignal Instruction Staff, Friedrich Fähnert
Generalmajor der Infanterie, Commander of Directing Office of Catch Command West, Erich Fitzau




















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