Jodl, Alfred Gustav, born in Wurzburg,
on 10-05-1890, fifteen months after Adolf Hitler (did you know) (see Hitler parents)
, as son of Alfred Jodl Sr. and Therese, born Baumgärtler, who were not yet married at the time of his birth. The couple had another son Ferdinand Alfred Friedrich,
the later General and also three daughters, who all died young.





Alfred attended cadet school and 1910 joined a field military regiment in the German Army. Soon after the outbreak of the First World War Jodl suffered a severe thigh wound.
He recovered and saw further action on the Western Front and in 1917 Jodl served briefly on the Easter Front before returning to the west as a staff officer. Disillusioned by Germany’s defeat he considered leaving the army and becoming a doctor, but Jodl remained in the armed forces and joined the Versailles-limited Reichswehr.
Jodl had married Irma Pauline Karoline Gräfin von Bullion
, a woman five years his senior from an aristocratic Swabian family, in September 1913
She born 16-08-1885 died in Königsberg from pneumonia, on 17-04-1944, aged 58. contracted after major spinal surgery. In November 1944, Jodl married Luise Katharina von Benda
























to the Allies as the representative of Gross Admiral, Karl Dönitz,
together with Admiral, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg
and Generalleutnant der Wehrmacht, Eberhard Kinzel.
The officer behind Jodl is General Lieutenant, Sir Kenneth Strong who played a leading part in the negotiations for the unconditional surrender of Germany. Strong died in Eastborne, age 81, on 11-01-1982. Soon afterwards Jodl was arrested and charged with war crimes.





Death and burial ground of Jodl, Alfred Gustav.
At the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Jodl was charged of approving orders that violated the rules of war.











