About Erwin von Witzleben
Job Wilhelm Georg Erwin Erdmann von Witzleben (4 December 1881 – 8 August 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall ('field marshal') in the Wehrmacht and Oberbefehlshaber West ('commander in chief in the west', abbreviated to OB West), during the Second World War. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was designated to become commander in chief of the Wehrmacht in a post-Nazi regime, had the plot succeeded. After being dishonourably discharged by the Ehrenhof ('court of honour'), he was murdered, after a show trial from the Volksgerichtshof ('people's court'). == Early years == Erwin von Witzleben was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) in the Prussian province of Silesia, the son of Job Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Erdmann von Witzleben (1838–1898), a Hauptmann ('captain') in the Prussian Army, and his wife, Therese, née Brandenburg. The Witzleben family was an Uradel family of old nobility and many military officers, originating in Witzleben, Thuringia. Witzleben completed the Prussian Cadet Corps program at Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie in Silesia and in Lichterfelde near Berlin, and on 22 June 1901 joined Grenadier Regiment König Wilhelm I No. 7 in Liegnitz, Silesia (now Legnica, Poland) as a Leutnant ('lieutenant'). In 1910, he was promoted to Oberleutnant ('first lieutenant'). On 21 May 1907, he married Alma Else Margarethe Kleeberg (1885–1942) from Chemnitz, Saxony, with whom he had a son and a daughter. == First World War == At the beginning of the First World War, Witzleben served as brigade adjutant in the 19th Reserve Infantry Brigade before being promoted to Hauptmann and company chief in Reserve Infantry Regiment No.
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