Brauchitsch, Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von, born 01-10-1881 in Berlin
, Josef Goebbels (did you know) was Hitler’s Gauleiter of Berlin. He the sixth of seven children of the later Prussian cavalry General and director of the Prussian War Academy Bernhard von Brauchitsch (1833-1910)
and his wife Charlotte Sophie Auguste Bertha, born von Gordon
(1844-1906). He was a third-degree uncle of racing driver Manfred von Brauchitsch
and, as brother-in-law of Hans von Haeften
, also an uncle of resistance fighters Hans Bernd von Haeften
and Werner von Haeften.
His sister Hedwig was a matron of the Protestant deaconess motherhouse in Frankenstein. His older brother, who died in 1935, was Major General Adolf von Brauchitsch. 










Brauchitsch was a German Field Marshal and the Commander in Chief of the Wehrmacht, in the early years of World war II. Brauchitsch was a brother in law of Werner Karl von Haeften who was participated in Oberst der Kavallerie, Graf Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
the Wolfschanze bomb attack, 20-07-1944. The Brauchitsch family had a long tradition of military service, and like his forefathers, Brauchitsch was raised in the tradition of the Prussian officer corps. His family moved in the leading social circles of Berlin’s high society, and his family name and father’s military rank put him on equal footing with any officer or official. In his teens, Brauchitsch was interested in politics, and was fascinated by art. To help him pursue these interests, his father enrolled him at Französisches Gymnasium Berlin rather than a military academy. His military career began as a Fahnenjunker in 1895 with the Königin Elisabeth Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr.3
. He was commissioned into the Prussian Guard Corps
in March 1900. From December 1900 he was with the 3rd Garde-Feldartillerie-Regiment, as a Lieutenant, Promoted to Oberleutnant on 18-10-1909 and Hauptmann on 18-12-1913. By the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Brauchitsch had reached the rank of Hauptmann, and was appointed staff officer to the XVI Army Corps stationed near Metz. During World War I, he served with the 34th Infantry Division and Guards Reserve Corps. Between 1914 and 1916, he took part in the Battle of Verdun
and Battle of the Argonne Forest. In the remaining two years of the conflict, Brauchitsch took part in the Third Battle of the Aisne, the Aisne-Marne offensive, the Second Battle of the Aisne, the Battle of Armentières, and the Battle of Flanders. Brauchitsch was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class
and the House Order of Hohenzollern, and ended the war with the rank of major. After Adolf Hitler (did you know)



















After the early successes of the war, he became more and more subservient to Hitler, complying with the Führer’s orders even against his own better judgment.
He had failed to take Moscow in the war against Josef Stalin’s
Soviet Union, earning Hitler’s enmity. In 1941, things went further downhill for von Brauchitsch, as he endured a serious heart attack and Hitler (see Hitler Paula)
relieved him on the 19-12-1941, age 60. Hitler himself assumed the role of Commander-in-Chief of the Army. From then on, von Brauchitsch lived with a cloud over his name. At the end of the war, von Brauchitsch was arrested on his estate in Schleswig-Holstein, charged with war crimes, together with Generalfeldmarschall der Infanterie, Oberbefehlhaber Heeresgruppe Sud, Erich von Manstein
and Generalfeldmarschall der Panzertruppe, Kommandeur Battle of the Bulge, Gerd von Rundstedt,
Later taken to Great Britain, being imprisoned at Island Farm. Generalfeldmarschall von Brauchitsch was to have been tried by a British Military Court in 1949.






Death and burial ground of Brauchitsch, Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von.













Message(s), tips or interesting graves for the webmaster: robhopmans@outlook.com:
Leave a Reply