born Sept. 22, 1882, Helmscherode, Ger.
died Oct. 16, 1946, Nürnberg
German field marshal.
After serving in World War I, he held administrative posts from 1918 to 1933, after which he became minister of war (1935) and head of the German armed forces high command (1938). Although one of Nürnberg trials and executed as a war criminal.