• Operation Frankton

Date of birth:

October 3rd, 1894 (Osnabrück/Hanover, Germany)

Date of death:

October 9th, 1976 (Kreuth am Tegernsee/Bavaria, Germany)

Nationality:

German

Walter Warlimont was a German artillery general and military strategist. Commissioned in 1914, he served in World War I before transitioning into key roles in the interwar years. He studied U.S. industrial mobilization and later became Chief of the Industrial Mobilization Section in Germany.

During the Spanish Civil War, he coordinated German aid to Franco. His 1937 memorandum influenced Hitler’s creation of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. Promoted to Generalmajor in 1940, he helped plan invasions of Poland, France, and Russia. By 1942, he was Generalleutnant and Deputy Chief of the Armed Forces Operations Staff.

Wounded in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler, he was later suspected of conspiracy. In 1948, he was convicted in the High Command Trial for war crimes, sentenced to life imprisonment, and released in 1954*. He authored Inside Hitler’s Headquarters 1939–1945 before passing away in Kreuth, Bavaria.

*General Warlimont was tried at Nuremberg in 1948 for his role in the executions of numerous figures, including six Marines who took part in Operation Frankton.

Promotions:
June 1914: Leutnant;
1926: Hauptmann;
1933: Major;
1935: Oberstleutnant;
February 1938: Oberst;
August 1st, 1940: Generalmajor;
April 1st, 1943: Generalleutnant;
April 1st, 1944: General der Artillerie.

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• Photo 1: Willi Schumacher Collection
• - Warlimont W., Im Hauptquartier der deutschen Wehrmacht
  - Friedrich J., Das Gesetz des Krieges, Das deutsche Heer in Rußland 1941-1945, Der Prozeß gegen das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Piper, München, 1995
  - Axis Biographical Research
  - Beckerd, Hubert, Walter Warlimont, Stellvertretender Chef des Wehrmachtsführungsstabes 1938/44
  

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