Walther Buhle
- Birth Date:
- 26.10.1894
- Death date:
- 28.12.1959
- Length of life:
- 65
- Days since birth:
- 47299
- Years since birth:
- 129
- Days since death:
- 23495
- Years since death:
- 64
- Categories:
- General, Officer, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- german
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
General Walther Buhle (26 October 1894 – 28 December 1959) was an infantry General in the German army who was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht from 1942 and chief of armaments for the army in 1945.
Career
He was born in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg and joined the army as a Cadet in July 1913. During World War I he was an officer in the infantry. Between the wars he served on the General Staff of the Reichswehr and the infantry and cavalry and by the outbreak of World War II he had reached the rank of Oberst in the Wehrmacht and was appointed chief of the organizations section of the Oberkommando des Heeres as senior officer to Claus Von Stauffenberg.
He was injured in 1944 by the 20 July plot bomb planted by von Stauffenberg at the Wolf's Lair headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia. He entered the conference room with von Stauffenberg and when a point was raised that von Stauffenberg might have been expected to answer, Buhle was perplexed that he was no longer present and looked for him in the corridor. A telephonist said he had left the building so he returned to the conference.
Buhle recovered from his injuries and in the last days of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler appointed him chief of armaments for the army. After the war he was imprisoned for two years, he then lived in Stuttgart where he died aged 65.
Decorations and awards
This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.
- Iron Cross of 1914, 1st and 2nd class
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords
- Knight's Cross of the Military Merit Order (Württemberg)
- Wound Badge (1918) in Black
- Iron Cross of 1939, 1st and 2nd class
- Wound Badge (20 July 1944)
Source: wikipedia.org
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20.07.1944 | Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
The 20 July plot refers to the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, in July 1944. The apparent purpose of the assassination attempt was to seize political control of Germany and its armed forces from the Nazi Party (including the SS) in order to obtain peace with the Allies as soon as possible. The underlying desire of many of the involved high ranking Wehrmacht officers was apparently to show to the world that not all Germans were like Hitler and the NSDAP. The details of the conspirators' peace initiatives remain unknown, but they likely would have included demands to accept wide reaching territorial annexations by Germany in Europe.