Waldemar Erfurth

Waldemar Erfurth
Erfurth with C. G. E. Mannerheim.
Born	4 August 1879 Berlin, German Empire
Died	2 May 1971(1971-05-02) (aged 91) Tübingen, West Germany
Allegiance	German Empire  Weimar Republic  Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Heer (Wehrmacht)
Rank	General der Infanterie
Battles/wars	World War I World War II Continuation War
Awards	Iron Cross of 1914, 1st class Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords Finnish Order of the Cross of Liberty, First Class with Breast Star and Swords
Other work	Writer

Waldemar Erfurth (4 August 1879 – 2 May 1971) was a German general of infantry, a writer and liaison officer to Finland during World War II

Erfurth was born in Berlin. He served in World War I, winning the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern. After the war, he continued in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. During the Second World War, he was a liaison officer in the Finnish headquarters 1941–44. He wrote a book about the Murmansk railroad and a war journal from 1944. He died in Tübingen.

Awards and decorations

• Iron Cross of 1914, 1st and 2nd class^[1]
• Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords (7 November 1916)^[1]
• Prussian Service Cross Award^[1]
• Bavarian Military Merit Order, 3rd class with Swords^[1]
• Knight's Cross, First Class of the Order of Albrecht with Swords^[1]
• Military Merit Cross, 2nd class (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)^[1]
• War Merit Cross, 2nd class (Brunswick)^[1]
• Hanseatic Cross of Lubeck^[1]
• Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd class with war decoration (Austria)^[1]
• Austrian Military Merit Cross, 3rd class with war decoration^[1]
• Ottoman War Medal (Turkish: Harp Madalyası; "Gallipoli Star", or "Iron Crescent")^[1]
• Order of Bravery 4th Class, 1st stage (Bulgaria)^[1]
• Finnish Order of the Cross of Liberty, First Class with Breast Star and Swords (16 September 1941) [5] ^[2]
• Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords (8 November 1944)

Bibliography

• Der finnische Krieg (1950)
• Die Geschichte des deutschen Generalstabs von 1918 bis 1945 (1957)

References