Subsequent to the annexation of Austria , Rommel was appointed to supervise a military school to the South of Vienna, as a prelude to curate the safety of Adolf Hitler during the diplomatic visits beyond Germany. As we have discussed above, the geography of the military career of Erwin Rommel, as well as the majority of the German lifetime military men under Kaiser, Reichswehr, and then Wehrmacht, can be attributed as diversified on many directions.
To the moment of taking a married oath eyes-to-eyes with Lucia Maria Mollin on November 27, , Erwin Rommel had already been a father to an extramarital child Gertrude was born on December 8, , as well as the holder of the Iron Cross.
The reverential relations of Erwin Rommel with his wife Lucia have become history largely due to the personal correspondence, that Rommel had been sending home from the battlefields of WW1, then during his multiple career trips and later from the frontline of a new World World and from Africa in particular.
Erwin and Lucia entered into a marriage in the heart of the city of Danzig German at that time , a place they had found each other five years before. Lucia and son Manfred, born on Christmas eve, December 24, , would follow the father of the family for the next fifteen years. As well as prior to their marriage, a family would be accompanied by Maria Gertrud, a daughter of a woman, who had died a few months before Manfred was born. The Rommels would spend the next five years close to Vienna.
No sooner than in October , more than a half year after his definitive return from Africa, Erwin Rommel took his family to a new residence in the small city of Herrlingen , a suburb of Ulm. The decision was driven by the fact, that the Wiener Neustadt was no more a safe harbor due to the intense Allied air raids on Germany Hamburg was devastated in July , as it allocated some potential military targets, such as the Messerschmitt works nearby.
More than a century prior to the day, when the Erwin Rommel, the German Fieldmarshal, devastated by his own retreat from Africa, moved his family to a cozy city of Herrlingen, Philipp Jakob Wieland , a local German industrialist had become a pioneer of the metals industry in the territories.
He was way more than just a founder of the gargantuan metals conglomerate, known today as Wieland-Werke. Philipp Jakob Wieland once made his mind to fund the construction of a cheap accommodation-for-rent around the factories for the needs of his workers and he eventually established one among the first insurance companies in Germany of its kind, which was initiated to preserve the rights of the manpower.
While being far from ignoring the needs of his staff, the manufacturer himself set his heart on a charming location within the Herrlingen village, a cradle of his business empire, where he had once bought a couple of scrubby flour mills.
No sooner than in October Erwin Rommel, his wife Lucia, and their son Manfred finally left their long-ago residence in the Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt , their home from , to move in a villa in Herrlingen, a small township next to Ulm. Manfred Rommel, a young man of fifteen years old at that time, would periodically visit his parents and stay for some granted days while serving his cadet military service at the air defense battery.
The field marshal was severely hurt on July 17, , on the occasion when his car had been attacked by an Allied fighter aircraft. The years-old German national hero came across the believable loss of an eye, he suffered from a fracture of a temporal bone and cheekbones.
Not before August 8, , Rommel got medical approval of own volition to leave the second-in-a-row hospital and to go back home to Herrlingen for home treatment.
His transfer to Herrlingen was arranged by means of a car under the Red Cross. For the first time in years of his intense career as a lifetime military man, Erwin Rommel finally had a chance to take advantage of a rest back at his home, surrounded by a treat of his wife, a son, an adjutant, and two doctors. It took him less than a month to initiate walkings around the mansion and his damaged eye was now half-recovered.
In a matter of two years between and , the national star of Rommel had been brought down in the eyes of Hitler and regime to the status of an all-out and exhausted field-marshal, absorbed in defeatist thoughts, a figure that should now keep track on. They used to keep an eye on the villa in Herrlingen and even used threats to make the neighbors provide information on Erwin Rommel.
Once he reached the villa after a walk of a few hundred meters, Manfred found his father awaken, yet worried about the upcoming announced visit of two officers. By virtue of the testimonies of Lucia Rommel , Manfred Rommel , Hermann Aldinger adjutant , it was later established that the villa was surrounded by five trucks with armored men in civilian clothes.
The field marshal shared his worries and the given ultimatum with his nearest and dearest and took a place in a car apr, at 1 p. In the aftermath of the minute arrangement with the generals within his cabinet, the German national hero put his dress-coat, a leather coat, and dais final goodbyes to his wife, son, and adjutant.
The villa that witnessed the last two months and the last hours of Erwin Rommel was in the ownership of the Wieland family until , five years after the metals factory in Ulm had been destroyed by the Allied air raid.
Rommel was injured in an air raid during Operation Overlord. During the interrogation of one of the conspirators, Rommel's name was mentioned. Because he was seen as an accomplice, he was given the choice: commit suicide and receive a state funeral or a show trial. He chose suicide.
The reality surrounding Rommel's death was withheld. The German state cited the injuries he sustained in an air raid in Normandy as the cause of his death. Do you have more information about this location? Inform us! First time I have seen this memorial for Rommel I find it a sad one too. For such a man to have a crave stone so small and a wooden cross.
Perhaps Rommel should have statue erected within the uk new war semetery for all who gone before us. Lets push for this to happen. My father fought against Rommel in Africa, he said that Rommel was good enemy to fight. Our newest WW2 articles in your inbox every month?
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