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Militaria Autumn Auction 2022
Lot 395:
Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg visits the Barracks in Arnsberg
Werner von Blomberg (Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg) (born September 2, 1878 in Stargard, died March 14, 1946 in Nuremberg) – German field marshal.
He joined the army as a private in 1894.In 1897 he became a second lieutenant.
In the years 1905–1908 he performed various staff and military functions at the War Academy.
In 1911 he became a captain, and three years later an officer in a reserve division.
During World War I, he served on the Western Front and was awarded the highest imperial decoration Рthe order of Pour le M̩ite.
From 1919 he was a clerk at the Reichswehr Ministry, then at the staff of the 10th Reichswehr Brigade Doberitz.
In the years 1921–1924 he was the chief of staff of the 5th Division and the 5th Military District, and in 1925 he became the head of training.In 1927 he was promoted to major general and became the head of the Truppenamt – (an office subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, serving as the general staff of the German army, whose existence was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles, and two years later he became the commander of the 1st Military District in East Prussia. < br>
In 1933 he became an infantry general and minister of the Reichswehr.After Hitler came to power, he pledged loyalty to him, adopting the "Aryan paragraph" forbidding Jews from serving in the army and including the swastika symbol in its insignia.
Although these were mainly symbolic gestures – for example, at the insistence of President Hindenburg, Jewish veterans could not be expelled, and indeed only about seventy soldiers were dismissed – they were still significant concessions to Nazi ideology.
From 1935 he was the minister of war and the supreme commander of the Wehrmacht.
On April 1, 1936, he became a field marshal.
In January 1938, he was unexpectedly removed from the army and discharged from military service.
The pretext was a wedding with the 26-year-old civil servant Eva Gruhn (witnesses were Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring).
The vice police notified the Berlin Criminal Police that Gruhn had a record of prostitution and pornography and that she ran away with a Czech Jew in her youth, who probably persuaded her to pose for photos.
To be sure, the head of the Berlin criminal police asked General Keitel to identify one of the photos, but he was unable to do so and went to Hermann Göring.
The latter confirmed Gruhn’s identity and informed the Gestapo of this fact. Notified of the scandal, Hitler ordered the general to be removed from the army and stripped of all military titles.
However, the real reasons for the removal of the field marshal were the envy of H. Göring and Heinrich Himmler for Blomberg’s influence in the army and Hitler’s dissatisfaction with the general’s attitude, as documented in the report by Hossbach, Hitler’s adjutant.A few days later the Blomberg-Fritsch scandal broke out and General Werner von Fritsch and other conservative generals skeptical about Hitler’s plans were removed as well.
In 1945 he was arrested by the Allies. He died in the Nuremberg court prison in March 1946
The Jägerkaserne was a barracks in Arnsberg , North Rhine-Westphalia. It was built from 1935 and was given the name "Jägerkaserne" after it was inaugurated. The barracks were located in the Alt Arnsberg district on the southern outskirts of the city
Offices of the Wehrmacht a barracks in Arnsberg1937-1945:
Parts of the 60th and 64th Infantry Regiments
various state rifle battalions
Medical squadron
Army technical school
various replacement battalions
Pioneer Fortress Battalion Arnsberg
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