Walter Model
1891 – 1945 · aged 54
German field marshal (1891-1945)
- Born
- 24 Jan 1891 · Genthin
- Died
- 21 Apr 1945 · Ratingen
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 24 Jan 1891BornBorn in Genthin
- 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
- 1914AwardIron Cross, 2nd class
- 1915AwardIron Cross, 1st class
- 1915AwardMilitary Merit Order (Bavaria)
- 1917AwardGallipoli Star
- 1917AwardHouse Order of Hohenzollern
- 1917AwardMilitary Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
- 1917AwardMilitary Merit Cross III. Class
- 1918AwardWound Badge (1918) in Black
- 1934AwardHonour Cross of the World War 1914/1918
- 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
- 1939AwardSpanish Cross
- 1941AwardPanzer Badge in Silver 1st Grade (without number)
- 1942AwardWound Badge (1939) in Gold
- 21 Apr 1945DiedDied in Ratingen
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1891 – 1945).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
Biography
Otto Moritz Walter Model (IPA: [ˈmoːdəl]; 24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner of defensive warfare. His relative success as commander of the Ninth Army in the battles of 1941–1942 determined his future career path.
Model first came to Hitler's attention before World War II, but their relationship did not become especially close until 1942. His tenacious style of fighting and loyalty to the Nazi regime won him plaudits from Hitler, who considered him one of his best field commanders and repeatedly sent him to salvage apparently desperate situations on the Eastern Front as commander of Army Group North, Army Group North Ukraine and
Army Group Centre.
In August 1944 Model was sent to the Western Front as commander of OB West and Army Group B. His relationship with Hitler broke down by the end of the war after the German defeat at the Battle of the Bulge. In the aftermath of the defeat of Army Group B and its encirclement in the Ruhr Pocket, Model took his own life on 21 April 1945.
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