Key facts
- Leader
- Alfred Jodl
- Preceded by
- Office established
- Succeeded by
- Horst Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels
- Born
- ( 1894-10-03 ) 3 October 1894, Osnabrück , Province of Hanover , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
- Died
- 9 October 1976 (1976-10-09) (aged 82), Kreuth , Bavaria , West Germany
- Spouse
- Anita von Kleydorff ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 )
- Parent s
- Louis Warlimont (father), Anna Rinck (mother)
- Allegiance
- German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
- Branch service
- Imperial German Army Reichswehr German Army
- Years of service
- 1914–1945
- Rank
- General der Artillerie
- Battles wars
- World War I , World War II
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Walter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Osnabrück
- Place of death
- Kreuth
- Occupation
- military officer
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- High Command Trial
- Conflict
- World War II in the Balkans
- Military branch
- Wehrmacht
- Military rank
- General of the Artillery
- Image
- Walter-Warlimont.jpg
- Convicted of
- crime against humanity
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- Commons category
- Walter Warlimont
- date of birth
- 1894-10-03
- date of death
- 1976-10-09
- allegiance
- German Empire
- start of work period
- 1914-00-00
- significant person
- Kurt Zeitzler
- member of
- High Command of the Armed Forces
- end of work period
- 1945-00-00
- archives at
- German Federal Archives
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Encyclopedic overview
Walter Warlimont (WAH-li-moh; 3 October 1894 – 9 October 1976) was a German Army staff officer and general during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of the departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Armed Forces High Command. Following the war, Warlimont was convicted in the High Command Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal. He was released in 1954.
World War I and inter-war years
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Walter Warlimont” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.