H. Norman Schwarzkopf senior

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Schwarzkopf, first super-intendent of the New Jersey State Police (1921).
Schwarzkopf to the right of Charles Lindbergh (1935).

Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf senior (born August 28, 1895 in Newark , New Jersey , † November 25, 1958 ) was an American police officer and major general . He was best known as the head of the New Jersey State Police during the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby . He is also the father of the commander of the Allied Forces during the 2nd Gulf War in 1991 , Norman Schwarzkopf junior .

Life

Schwarzkopf's grandparents came from Germany, which enabled him to learn German as well as English. After successfully completing his training at the US Army Academy at West Point in 1917 , he was deployed as a lieutenant in the American Expeditionary Forces during the First World War in France and returned to the United States with the rank of colonel .

After his return to the United States, Schwarzkopf became the first superintendent of the newly established New Jersey State Police in 1921 , and he was to hold this position until 1936. He became known through the investigation into the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.

In 1940 he returned to the US Army. Because of his experience as police chief, he was deployed from August 1942 as a member of the US military mission in Iran to reorganize the gendarmerie. In 1948, Schwarzkopf was dismissed as head of the military mission for the reorganization of the gendarmerie (GENMISH) and head of the Iranian gendarmerie by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and replaced by the Iranian general Sadiq Kupal. Schwarzkopf then returned to the USA in the summer of 1948.

After the end of his mission in Iran, Schwarzkopf, by then already Brigadier General , became first deputy and later commander of all military police (provost marshal) for the US occupation zone in Germany.

In August 1953, during the Abadan crisis , Schwarzkopf was sent to Iran to carry out Operation Ajax together with CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt Jr. that led to the overthrow of incumbent Prime Minister Mossadegh .

In late 1953, he retired as major general . Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf died on November 25, 1958 of complications from lung cancer. He was married to Ruth Bowman (1900-1977), a nurse from West Virginia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “In His Father's Footsteps” in “Into the Eye of the Storm” by Scott Baron, 2007 ( archive link ( Memento from March 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), English ).
  2. ↑ List of head of the New Jersey State Police on the website of the New Jersey State Police ( English ).
  3. ^ Kristen Blake: The US-Soviet confrontation in Iran, 1945–1962. University Press of America, 2009, p. 17.
  4. ^ Kristen Blake: The US-Soviet confrontation in Iran, 1945–1962. University Press of America, 2009, p. 49.
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzkopf, H. Norman senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarzkopf, Herbert Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American police officer and general
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1958