Sunday, December 26, 2010

GENERAL DER KAVALLERIE SIEGFRIED WESTPHAL


Born: 18.3.1902 in Leipzig
Died: 2.7.1982
 Assignments and commands:
  • Commander of 164 Leichte-Infanterie-Division (temporarily): 6.12.1942-30.12.1942- In staff of the Panzer-Armee "Afrika"
  • Ia of the "Deutsche-Italienische" Panzer-Armee
  • Chief of staff of Oberbefehlshaber "Südwest" and the Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe "C" (1943-1944)
  • Chief of staff of Oberbefehlshaber "West" (1944-1945)
Promotions:
  • Oberst: 1.8.1942
  • Generalmajor: 1.3.1943
  • Generalleutnant: 1.4.1944
  • General der Kavallerie: 1.2.1945
Assignments and commands:
  • Ia of 58 Infanterie-Division: 1.9.1939
  • Ia of XXVI Armee-Korps: 5.3.1940
  • Ia of Panzergruppe Afrika: 15.6.1941
Awards and decorations:
  • Knight´s Cross: 29.11.1942
  • German Cross in Gold
Awards:
  • 1939 Iron Cross 2nd class
  • 1939 Iron Cross 1st class
  • Tank Combat Badge in Silver
1941 - Erwin Rommel Pushing is Horst Command Car. Behind him is General Siegrfried Westphal
Notes:
  • He was seriously wounded on the first day of june 1942.
  • American POW: 8.5.1945 - December, 1947
  • Westphal took up a career in the Ruhrstahl Company and rose to be a director of that organisation. He retired in 1972.
  • Campaigns: West (1940); North Africa (1941/1942); Italy (1943/1944); West (1944/1945)
  • Westphal wrote The book "The German Army in the West" (1952).


Thanks to Francisco de Asís Romero y Medina,
Ken McCanliss and TH for the top picture

2 comments:

  1. Are your sure the officer behind Rommel is not F.W. von Mellenthin?

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    1. Well. Not shure. In facto looks like Friedrich von Mellenthin. I try to figure it. Thanks

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