Wachenfeld, Edmund, born 24-11-1878 in Mülhausen, Alsace,
entered the Army, age 18, as a Fahnenjunker in the 10th Foot Artillery Regiment. On 18-10-1897 Edmund was promoted to Leutnant in this regiment. At the same time he was appointed Hohenzollern’s Foot Artillery Regiment No. 13. On 22-03-1910, he was promoted to the Hauptmann at the same time promoted to the General Staff. In autumn 1913 he was transferred to the General Staff of the V. Army Corps under command of General der Infanterie Hermann von Strantz.
In World War I he was then used in various General Staffs. On 18-12- 1916, he was promoted to Major. During the war, he was awarded a few awards. He came to the peace commission. On 01-10-1920, he was then appointed to the Ia Group Command 1.


He started a pilot training
in 1912, age 34, was a Chief of Operations in the Staff of different Divisions and ended the first war in the General Staff of Commander in Chief East. Wachenfeld was allowed in the new 100.000 men Reichswehr
On 01-10-1929, he was appointed with simultaneous promotion to Generalmajor der Artillery I. On 01-10-1930, he was appointed Chief of Staff of Group Command 1 in Berlin. Between October 1931 and March 1932 he was represented by Generalmajor Ludwig Beck.





He entered Hermann Göring´s




Death and burial ground of Wachenfeld, Edmund.















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