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NAME: Generalfeldmarschall Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
RANK: Generalfeldmarschall
CAPTURED: Bad Tölz, Germany
DATE: 1 May 1945
DATE OF BIRTH: 12
December 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH: Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH: 24 February 1953
(heart disease)
PLACE OF DEATH: Hannover
NATIONALITY: German
RELIGION: Evangelical
OCCUPATION: Regular Soldier
HEIGHT: 5’ 9”
WEIGHT: Unknown
HAIR COLOUR: Light
Brown
EYE COLOUR: Light
Brown
NEXT OF KIN: Kassel,
(US Zone)
Wife: Married Luise “Bila” von Goetz on 22 January 1902 – one son, Hans Gerd von Rundstedt, born 21 January 1903. The Field Marshal’s son died on 12 January 1948 followed by his wife, Bila, in October 1952. Both passed away in Hannover
- Fähnrich: 22 March 1892
- Sekondeleutnant:
17 June 1893 (renamed Leutnant on 1 January 1899)
- Oberleutnant:
1 October 1902
- Hauptmann:
24 March 1909
- Major:
28 November 1914
- Oberstleutnant:
1 October 1920
- Oberst:
1 February 1923 (12)
- Generalmajor:
1 November 1927
- Generalleutnant:
1 March 1929
- General
der Infanterie: 1 October 1932
- Generaloberst:
1 March 1938 (1)
- Generalfeldmarschall:
19 July 1940 (3)
Commands & Assignments:
- 1 April 1888: Entered the Cadet Institute at Oranienstein.
- 1 April 1890: Entered the Senior Cadet Institute at Gross Lichterfelde.
- 22 March 1892: Entered the Army as a Fähnrich in the Infanterie-Regiment von Wittlich (3. Kurhessisches) Nr.83.
- 1
October 1896: Battalion Adjutant in Infantry Regiment 83.
Gerd von Rundstedt taken while he was a Leutnant in 1897
- 22 March 1900: Regimental Adjutant of Infantry Regiment 83.
- 1 October 1902: Accepted to the War Academy in Berlin for General Staff training.
- 1 April 1907: Joined the Great General Staff in Berlin.
- 1 October 1910: General Staff Officer in the General Staff of the XI Army Corps, Kassel.
- 13 September 1912: Leader of 6th Company of the 2. Ober-elssäsiches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.171.
- 30 July 1914: Operations Officer (Ia) of the 22nd Reserve Infantry Division.
- November 1914: Evacuated sick from the Western Front with a lung infection.
- December 1914: On the staff of Military Government in Antwerp, Belgium.
- 1 April 1915: Chief of the General Staff of the 86th Infantry Division on the Eastern Front.
- July 1915: Evacuated sick from the Eastern Front with lung and heart ailments.
- 5 September 1915: Administrative and Logistics Officer (Ib) on the staff of the Military Government in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1 November 1916: Operations Officer (Ia) and, later, acting Chief of the General Staff of the XXV Reserve Corps in the Carpathians.
- 1 October 1917: Chief of the General Staff of the LIII Corps on the Eastern Front.
- 3 March 1918: Recommended for award of the Prussian Pour le Mérite Order; not approved.
- 1 August 1918: Chief of the General Staff of the XV Corps on the Western Front.
- December 1918: Posted to the Great General Staff. Again recommended for award of the Prussian Pour le Mérite Order; not approved due to abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II the previous month.
- 1 October 1919: On the staff of Wehrkreis [Military District] V, Stuttgart.
- May 1920: Chief of Staff of the 3rd Cavalry Division.
- 1 October 1923: Chief of Staff of Wehrkreis II and the 2nd Division, Stettin.
- 1 May 1925: Commander of the 18th Infantry Regiment, Paderborn.
- 1 October 1926: Chief of Staff of Group Command 2, Kassel.
- 1 October 1928: Commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, Breslau.
- 1 February 1932: Commander of Wehrkreis III, Berlin.
- 1 October 1932: Commander of Group Command 1, Berlin.
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Gerd
von Rundstedt wearing his Turkish war medal
Generals Werner Freiherr von Fritsch (centre) and Werner von Blomberg, circa 1935-37. Note that Fritsch is wearing his Knight of Justice of the Johanniter Order around his neck as well as the breast badge of the order (white Maltese cross) below his Iron Cross, 1st Class (1914). Werner von Blomberg is wearing his Prussian Pour le Mérite Order around his neck. |
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