Keitel, Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav
- Date of birth:
- September 22nd, 1882 (Helmscherode/Lower Saxony, Germany)
- Date of death:
- October 16th, 1946 (Nuremberg/Bavaria, Germany)
- Buried on:
- Wenzbach
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
1902 Leutnant im Nds.Feld.Art.Rgt.46
1929 Chef Org.-Abt.im Tr.Amt
1934 Generalmajor
1935 Chef Wehrmachtsamt
1937 General d.Art.
1938 Chef OKW
1940 GFM
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Silbernes Verdienstkreuz des Herzoglich Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden
With swords
Orden Heinrichs des Löwen - Ritter
Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen / Hessische Tapferkeitsmedaille
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
Friedrich-August Kreuz 2.Klasse
Hamburgisches Hanseatenkreuz
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
Bremischen Hanseatenkreuz
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
Militärverdienstkreuz III. Klasse
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Rank:
- Generaloberst (General)
- Unit:
- OKW
- Awarded on:
- April 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generaloberst
- Unit:
- OKW
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generaloberst
- Unit:
- Chef Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
- Awarded on:
- September 30th, 1939
Ordinul Mihai Viteazul Clasa 3
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalfeldmarschall
- Awarded on:
- October 14th, 1941
Royal Decree no. 2868 dated 14 October 1941. Awarded during his visit to Bucharest for the victory parade held to celebrate the capture of Odessa.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalfeldmarschall
- Awarded on:
- October 14th, 1941
Royal Decree no. 2868 dated 14 October 1941. Awarded during his visit to Bucharest for the victory parade held to celebrate the capture of Odessa.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalfeldmarschall
- Awarded on:
- October 14th, 1941
Royal Decree no. 2868 dated 14 October 1941. Awarded during his visit to Bucharest for the victory parade held to celebrate the capture of Odessa.
Vapaudenristin Suurristi (VR SR)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalfeldmarschall
- Awarded on:
- March 25th, 1942
Version with swords.
Ordine Militare di Savoia - Cavaliere di Gran Croce
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshall)
- Awarded on:
- April 24th, 1942
Presented by King Victor Emmanuel.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshall)
- Unit:
- Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Wehrmacht
- Awarded on:
- July 20th, 1944
Presented on September 2nd, 1944.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
Sources
- Photo 1: Willi Schumacher Collection
- - Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
- The wehrmacht at war 1939-1945 the units and commanders, Andris J. Kursietis ISBN 907532338-7
- Romanian Armed Forces in the Second World War
- Daten-Buch
- ritterkreuztraeger-1939-45.de
- Schenectady Gazette - april 24, 1942
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