Alfred Jodl Biography
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In two volumes. Volume 2. Biographical certificates. Born on May 10 in Würzburg in a military family. As a student, Jodl entered the Cadet Corps, and then, in the 4th Bavarian regiment of field artillery. He received the title of Lieutenant. During the First World War, he took part in battles on the Western and Eastern fronts; was wounded. In Jodl, he began his studies in an illegally created contrary to the terms of the Versailles Agreement to the General Staff.
He established himself as a “thinking, decisive, energetic, with good physical preparation, a born leader and a suitable candidate for the highest team posts.” In Jodl, he received an appointment to the Office of the Ground Forces, and in March he took the place of the head of the operational department of the OKV. In October, he became the commander of the 2nd Mountain Rifle Division.
The title of Major General was awarded to Jodl. He participated in the development and planning of many large -scale military operations, including the Weiss - an attack on Poland, the Vessyubung - an invasion of Norway. He was among the closest environment of the Fuhrer and was unconditionally devoted to him. After the failures on the Eastern Front and Jodl’s attempts to join General Franz Galder and Field Marshal Wilhelm Liszt’s relationship, Jodl’s relationship and Hitler deteriorated so much that the Führer thought to replace Yodl by General Friedrich Paulus when he won under Stalingrad.
Jodl was wounded at the Führer’s headquarters under Rastenburg by an explosion of a bomb during an attempt on Hitler as a result of the July conspiracy, Jodl remained in Berlin and Hitler until April, until he moved to the command post of Gross-Admiral Dunitsa. On behalf of Dönitsa, Jodl put his signature on the document on the surrender of Germany before the Western allies on May 7 in Reims.
As Albert Speer recalled, "the exact and restrained defense of Jodl made a strong impression. It seems that he was one of the few who managed to become higher than the situation. "Jodl claimed that the soldier could not be responsible for the decisions of politicians. He insisted that he honestly fulfilled his duty, obeying the Fuhrer, and considered the war to be a fair business.
The tribunal found him guilty and sentenced him to death. He wrote:" He [a guitler] he [Hitler]. He buried himself under the ruins of the Reich and his hopes. Let the one who wants to curse him for this, I can’t. "At dawn on October 16, Army General Alfred Jodl was hanged. His body was cremated, and the ashes were secretly exported and dispersed. The material of the Encyclopedia of the Third Reich-www.
Jodel with Hitler. Jodl Alfred graduated from the Cadet Corps, served in the 1st, took part in the 1st; The world was in the position of the battery. Among other ch. Materials of the Soviet military encyclopedia in 8 volumes were used, Volume 3. Son of the captain of artillery. He received education in the Cadet Corps. He was promoted to lieutenants of the 4th Bavarian Artillery Regiment.
Member of the 1st World War. He fought on the western and eastern fronts. After demobilization of the army, he was left to serve in the Reichswehr. In the end of the secret course of the officer of the General Staff. With the head of the defense department of the country of the military department of the military ministry, the closest employee of General V., when creating Yodl, took only a limited participation in the creation of war plans with Poland and France, since their development was entrusted with A.
Planned and coordinated the surgery "Veserubung" - the occupation of Norway. During its holding, he refused to fulfill the order of Hitler, who demanded to withdraw the gene division. Ditle from Narvik. Then he won Hitler's great trust. He entered the closest circle of close Fuhrer. In August, he entered into conflict with the Fuhrer, speaking in support of General F. B’s position, he was sent to the Caucasus to the Army Group A, returning, supported the actions of Field Marshal V.
Sheet, which caused Hitler's anger. During this period, the issue of replacing Jodl at his post, General F. Paulus, was seriously considered, which was prevented by the surrender of the latter near Stalingrad. He refused to comply with Hitler’s order, according to which the enemy paratroopers were captured by the captivity. During the attempt on Hitler on behalf of Germany, together with Admiral G.
Friedburg, Dönitsa was arrested. As the main war criminal, he appeared to the court of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Found guilty of crimes against the world, against humanity, in war crimes and sentenced to death.The second wife of Jodl - Louise von Benda - achieved the organization of the re -trial of Jodl in Munich in, on which Yodl was fully justified.
Materials of Prince. Biographical Encyclopedic Dictionary. Frank and A. his father was a retired Bavarian artillery captain, who was forced to abandon the actual military service, intending to marry the Franconian girl from a simple family of farmers and Melnikov. Alfred was one of the five children born in this marriage. His three sisters died at an early age, his brother, Ferdinand, during the Second World War [30] of war rose to the general of the Mountain Rifle troops.
The young Alfred Jodl, as a student, joined the Cadet Corps, in the year-in the 4th Bavarian regiment of field artillery. In the year he received the title of lieutenant. Soon after, he married Countess Irma Irma von Bullion from a noble Swabian family, despite the sharp objections from her father, Oberst, Count von Bullion. The countess, who was five years older than him, turned out to be a smart and cheerful secular lady.
Alfred simply adored her. During the war. Jodl fought as an officer of artillery both on French and Russian fronts. In the first month of the war, he was wounded by fragments of a grenade, but soon recovered and returned to the front line. After the war ended, he remained in the army and began a secret study at the General Staff in the year. In the days of the Weimar Republic, Yodl served as a head officer and, reaching the major, received an appointment to the operational department of the military department, the secret department of the General Staff.
Jodl was a competent specialist and a brave soldier, but his indomitable enthusiasm and devotion to Hitler and the NSDAP created a deep abyss between him and other officers, which was never overcome. In the year, Jodl, who had become an overs on that time [31], was appointed to the Ground Forces Office. A few months later, in March, Lieutenant General Max von Viban, due to the fear of developing the Austrian crisis into the war, had a nervous breakdown.
And the place of the head of the operational department of the OKV took Jodl. Oberst Yodl enthusiastically began fulfilling his new duties and sharply criticized army generals such as Ludwig Beck, who, after Hitler’s speech, said that Germany was not ready for war. Jodl, in his diary, called the behavior of the generals "cowardly." He also added that they should pay more attention to issues of military strategy, and not discuss political decisions.
He further noted that he sees a real tragedy that when the whole nation rallied in support of the Fuhrer, only the army generals were the exception. Undoubtedly, the loyalty and faith of Jodl in Hitler knew no boundaries, he sincerely considered the Fuhrer the infallible. Meanwhile, in the year, Jodl received the title of Major General and the command of the infantry division.
In this post, Jodl remained until the end of the war. In the year, he received an increase and became a general of artillery, and on January 30, on the day of the yodl, Yodl received the rank of General General, jumping over the title of Lieutenant General.