Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (died 1946)

Werner von Blomberg

German General Staff officer and field marshal

Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg was a German general and politician who served as the first Minister of War in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1938. Blomberg had served as Chief of the Truppenamt, equivalent to the German General Staff, during the Weimar Republic from 1927 to 1929.