- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWerner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg
- Nickname
- Rubber Lion
- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Werner von Blomberg was born on September 2, 1878 in Stargard, Pomerania, Germany [now Stargard Szczecinski, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He died on March 22, 1946 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.
- Chief of the German Troop Office in the Weimar Republic.
- First Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief.
- April 1936: Became Hitler's first field marshal.
- His idea to get soldiers to pledge an oath of personal loyalty to Hitler.
- Served at the Western Front in World War I.
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