Waldemar Erfurth

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General of the Infantry Waldemar Erfurth (right) with Field Marshal Mannerheim (before 1945)

Waldemar Erfurth (born August 4, 1879 in Berlin , † May 2, 1971 in Tübingen ) was a German military historian , strategist and officer in three German armies. During the First World War he already served as a general staff officer , he was reactivated in the Wehrmacht and most recently held the rank of general of the infantry . After the Second World War he worked in the Operational History (German) Section and emerged as a military writer.

Origin and family

Erfurth was the son of the Privy Prussian Land Surveyor Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Erfurth (1839-1919) and his wife Martha, née. Jaw. He was first taught at home and then attended the Ascanisches Gymnasium in Berlin until he graduated from high school .

Waldemar Erfurth, Protestant, was married and the father of two children. His son served as an officer in the Bundeswehr .

Part of his estate is in the Federal Archives .

Military career (1897–1931)

Prussian Army and First World War

Promotions

Erfurth entered on September 20, 1897 as a volunteer with the prospect of promotion to the fusilier regiment "Prince Heinrich of Prussia" (Brandenburg) No. 35 in Brandenburg an der Havel .

In 1899 he was promoted to lieutenant in the Prussian Army . In 1903 he was assigned to the Spandau rifle factory for training in the gun repair business . In 1904 he became adjutant of the 1st Battalion of the Fusilier Regiment 35. In 1906 he was assigned to the Prussian War Academy . In 1909 he was then assigned to the Guards Foot Artillery Regiment. From 1910 the service in the Great General Staff followed . In February 1914 he was Ib in the General Staff of the XX. Army Corps .

During the First World War , in August 1914, Erfurth became a general staff officer in the mobile general command of the XX. Army Corps. In March 1915 he was transferred to the General Staff of the 36th Reserve Division . In August 1916 he was named XXII. Reserve corps commanded, as he was made available for special use by Army Group Linsingen . In October 1916 he was assigned as Ia in the General Staff of the 203rd Infantry Division and two months later as Ia in the General Staff of the General Command for Special Use 52. In July 1917, he became a General Staff Officer at the Land recording . A little later he was transferred to the General Staff of the 9th Army . In January 1918 he completed the 4th general staff course in Wahn. In June 1918 he was Ia in the General Staff of the XIV Reserve Corps . As of September 17, 1918, Erfurth, as a major, was entrusted with the management of the business as chief of the general staff of the 5th Reserve Corps .

Takeover in the Reichswehr

Promotions

After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and deployed to Military District Command I in Königsberg . In 1920 he became a general staff officer and in 1921 chief of staff in the 1st division . In 1924 he became commander of the III. Battalion of the 14th (Bad.) Infantry Regiment . In the same year he completed the machine gun training course at the Königsbrück military training area and in 1925 the artillery course in Jüterbog. In 1927 he served with the Regimental Staff of Infantry Regiment 14. He was finally entrusted with the maintenance of the business of the Chief of Staff of General Command 1 or Chief of Staff of Group Command 1. In 1928 he was commanded for the infantry combat school course in Döberitz.

From October 1929 until his retirement on September 30, 1931, Erfurth was Infantry Leader II . In 1930 he was one of the 42 generals of the German Imperial Army according to the ranking list at the time.

History studies (1930s)

From 1931 to 1934 Erfurth studied history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau , where he received a teaching position for war history after completing his studies and in 1939 with Gerhard Ritter with the work (as a "dissertation substitute") The Destruction Victory. A study on the interaction of separate armies on the Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

While the English translation ( Surprise ) of The Surprise in War was still praised by the American historian William O. Shanahan in 1944 , his writings from the 1930s, The Surprise in the War and The Destruction Victory , were in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ) placed on the list of literature to be discarded.

Reactivation (1935) and World War II

War science activity

On September 1, 1934, Erfurth was employed as the head of the evaluation of war experience group in the Army General Staff (former liaison between the Office of Defense and the Reichsarchiv (Viebahn Group)) and reactivated in the Wehrmacht on November 1, 1935 . He was now head of the resulting 7th (war history) department in the Army General Staff . This was the editor of the Schlieffen estate and responsible for the military journal, Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau . In 1938 Erfurth was appointed senior quartermaster V (war science) in the Army General Staff; the office was re-established. Subordinate to him were the military history research institute of the army (formerly the research institute for war and army history), the chief of the army archives Lieutenant General Friedrich von Rabenau and the 7th (war history) department under the direction of Major Walter Scherff . In spring 1941 he was directly subordinate to the Chief of the General Staff of the Army, Colonel General Franz Halder . After the war, Erfurth reported that Hitler had ordered the dissolution of the Oberquartiermeister V department in 1942.

Liaison General in Finland

General of the Infantry Waldemar Erfurth (back center) during Adolf Hitler's visit to Finland (1942)

From June 1941 he served as commander of the northern liaison staff in Mikkeli , Finland, which in 1942 was renamed German General at the High Command of the Finnish Wehrmacht (under the direction of Field Marshal Mannerheim ). Mannerheim later attested Erfurth "a fine [] humanistic [] education". Erfurth, who had been friends with Mannerheim for a long time, often took the Finnish point of view during his time in Finland, as Michael Jonas stated. Erfurth was considered important for German-Finnish relations , but was not a National Socialist after Jonas . As a liaison officer , he was nevertheless involved in the coordination of the German and Finnish troops in the run-up to the Continuation War between Finland (on the side of the German Reich) and the Soviet Union. In June 1942, Erfurth was a member of the welcoming committee when Hitler visited Finland. However, through his cautious communication with Berlin, Erfurth created more space for the Finnish military to act independently, and he also minimized the influence of the SS and the NSDAP in Finland. In the course of breaking off diplomatic relations shortly before the armistice in Moscow in autumn 1944, he, envoy Wipert von Blücher and others left Finland via the south-western city of Turku and neutral Sweden .

Leader reserve and captivity

On September 11, 1944, he was transferred to the OKH Führerreserve ; from December 7, 1944 he was General for Special Use 4 in the High Command of the Wehrmacht . On May 6, 1945 he came as a general of the infantry (from 1940) into US American captivity , from which he was released on June 30, 1947 under automatic arrest.

Post-war period and journalism

Operational History (German) Section

While he was a prisoner of war, Erfurth was a member of the Advisory Board of Colonel Frank J. Vida and head of the German "scientific commission", which re-examined the work submitted by the Germans, in the Historical Division of the US Army in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In March 1947 he was commissioned by the former field marshal and later convicted war criminal Georg von Küchler to teach a German and not a US American war history. According to Bernd Wegner , Erfurth nevertheless endeavored in the Historical Division - who was the oldest German officer and the only trained historian there - "honestly" to impart the basics of "historical method and source criticism" to his colleagues. He was one of those authors who "made a name for themselves early on as authors of special studies in war history or military science". From 1947/48 Erfurth then worked on the STAPLE project of the Historical Division in Neustadt (Hesse). In 1948 he was released from automatic detention; he then worked as a "homeworker". Erfurth also worked as a member of the group of authors of the Control Group and as a member of the working group for defense research that was established in 1954 . He published in the Federal Republic a. a. in the military journals Europäische Sicherheit and Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau . For Wolfram Wette , the former Wehrmacht officer Erfurth was also known for reporting uncritically about aspects of the war.

Publication on the Finnish War

His book The Finnish War 1941-1944 was received differently over time. The British historian J. Hampden Jackson drew a positive résumé, who found the description of the political situation particularly remarkable. Walther Hubatsch stated that problems were "carefully examined". The "knightly [] spirit of Mannerheim" lives in the script, according to Hubatsch. Stefan Klemp , who commented on Erfurth's contribution to the Finnish war, saw the author downplaying on the one hand, but on the other hand, Erfurth contributed significantly more to the “finding of the truth” and his legacy was to be classified as “more reliable” than that of the former SS-Standartenführer Franz Clerk . For example, Erfurth addressed violence against property and people and the use of scorched earth tactics in Finland. The US-American historian Earl F. Ziemke , who described Erfurth as an important contemporary witness, stated that the author had a broad, but not a deep view due to the role at that time. Agilolf Keßelring counts the book, which, like Erfurth's treatise on the German General Staff, was included in Rolf Düsterberg's study on military memorial literature for the Second World War, as "military memoir literature ". In any case, Winfried Heinemann (MGFA) considers the descriptions of Erfurth to be "inadequate".

Publication on the German General Staff

His work, The History of the German General Staff from 1918 to 1945 , published by the Muster-Schmidt- Verlag, was criticized by Hans Herzfeld for not having presented an original historiography, but rather describing “personal experiences”. He also attested to his lack of source criticism . In essence, Erfurth rejected Generaloberst Beck's (resistance fighter) approach from the extra-military responsibility of the soldier in times of unrest. For Manfred Messerschmidt was judged "from the perspective of [a] former General Staff officer." According to the British historian Michael Howard , who called Erfurt a “nationalist”, the book would have fundamentally contributed to the understanding of the General Staff, even though the author excused the Wehrmacht as “apolitical” in connection with Hitler's rise. Fritz Ernst praised the fact that "for the first time a really documented history of the General Staff of recent times" had been presented. Nevertheless, it could also be viewed as " apologetic "; Erfurth made a characterization of his comrades on the basis of "personal knowledge". Kurt Pätzold denied the memoir allegation here, while Erfurth emerged as "an accomplished military historian in the true sense of the word".

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The surprise in war. Middle. Berlin 1938.
  • English translation by Stefan T. Possony and Daniel Vilfroy: Surprise (= Military classics . 3). Military Service Publ. Co., Harrisburg 1943.
  • The annihilation victory. A study of the interaction between separate armies . Mittler, Berlin 1939.
  • The Finnish War 1941–1944. Limes-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1950. (2nd revised edition: The Finnish War 1941–1944. With a foreword by Dietrich Erfurth, Limes-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-8090-2110-5 ; approved unabridged paperback edition: The Finnish War 1941–1944. (= Heyne story . 20). Timeline, person index and bibliography were compiled by Wolfgang Ruppert, Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-48048-1 )
  • English first publication: The Last Finnish War (1941–44) . US Army, Europe's Foreign Military Study, 1949. ( The Last Finnish War (1941–44) . University Publications of America, Washington, DC 1979, ISBN 0-313-27082-1 )
  • Finnish translation by WE Tuompo : Suomi sodan myrskyssä 1941–1944 . Söderström, Porvoo u. a. 1951. (2nd edition 1951)
  • Finnish translation of Erfurt's war diary by Eino E. Suolahti : Sotapäiväkirja vuodelta 1944 . Söderström, Porvoo u. a. 1954. ( Sotapäiväkirja vuodelta 1944. Docendo, Jyväskylä 2014, ISBN 978-952-291-049-3 )
  • The history of the German General Staff from 1918 to 1945 (= studies on the history of the 2nd World War . Vol. 1). Musterschmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1957. (2nd, revised and expanded edition 1960; 3rd improved edition 1963)

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Karl Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Brockmann: The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials in the general rank (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 4). Volume 3: Dahlmann – Fitzlaff . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1994, ISBN 3-7648-2443-3 , pp. 362-364.
  • Esther-Julia Howell: Learn from the vanquished ?. The war history cooperation between the US Army and the former Wehrmacht elite 1945–1961 (= Studies on Contemporary History . Volume 90). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin a. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-041478-3 , esp. Pp. 331-332 (biogram).

Web links

Commons : Waldemar Erfurth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Esther-Julia Howell: Learn from the vanquished ?. The war-history cooperation between the US Army and the former Wehrmacht elite 1945–1961 . Berlin 2015, p. 331.
  2. ↑ Waldemar Erfurth , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1957 of May 13, 1957, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  3. ↑ Esther-Julia Howell: Learn from the vanquished ?. The war-history cooperation between the US Army and the former Wehrmacht elite 1945–1961 . Berlin 2015, p. 20.
  4. ↑ a b c Dermot Bradley, Karl Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Brockmann: Die Generale des Heeres 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general . Volume 3: Dahlmann – Fitzlaff . Osnabrück 1994, p. 362.
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  6. ↑ Nikolaus von Preradovich : The social origin of the Reichswehr-Generalität 1930. In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 54 (1967) 4, pp. 481-486, pp. 482 f.
  7. ↑ Manfred Kehrig: “… and not form a state within a state. Sketches for the Development of Military Archives 1945–1955 ”. In: Friedrich P. Kahlenberg (Ed.): From the work of the archives. Contributions to archives, source studies and history. Festschrift for Hans Booms (= writings of the Federal Archives. 36). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1989, ISBN 3-7646-1892-2 , pp. 368-408, here: p. 383.
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personal data
SURNAME Erfurth, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian and officer, most recently General of the Infantry
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 2nd 1971
Place of death Tübingen