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