Talk:Werner von Blomberg

Stargard/Pomerania !

You know, there were a number of places in "Deutsches Reich" which bore the name "STARGARD", or similar:

1. Stargard in Pommern (now Stargard Szczecinski, Poland) 2. Stargard (Burg Stargard) in Mecklenburg 3. (Preussisch) Stargard, near Danzig (now Starogard Gdanski, Poland) 4. Stargardt (Brandenburg).

To give the exact place, one should name "Stargard in Pommern" here Thanks, WernerE (german wiki), 18.2.05

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Above originally posted in the article by 129.187.244.28. Moved here by Lupo 11:00, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Frau von Blomberg was not a former prostitute

The claim made here (which I had to remove twice) that Frau von Blomberg was a former prostitute is erroneous. Both Len Deighton in his book Blitzkrieg and Ian Kershaw in Volume 2 of his Hitler biography say quite clearly that the Frau Blomberg's criminal record was for posing for pornographic photos, not prostitution. The claim that Frau Blomberg was a former prostitute was just a malicious smear on the part of Hermann Göring to discredit Blomberg, something that far too people are willing to repeat today, presumably because it sounds more salacious-A.S. Brown (talk) 22:44, 8 June 2010 (UTC)--.

Indeed, that is my understanding as well, and it's what the main body of the article says. Am removing the claim from the intro.Paulturtle (talk) 02:43, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, Paul!--A.S. Brown (talk) 09:15, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Duplicate of photo

I don't see the value of having two identical photos of von Blomberg in the one article (one being hand-coloured I believe). I would remove the hand-coloured altogether and move up the black-and-white to take its place. After a week, and without comment, I shall edit to reflect my view.shall

I think the colorized photo is fine 71.178.8.66 (talk) 23:29, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Pour la Merite reference

I don't know how to add references, so if anyone wanted to remove the Citation Needed tag in the section on his early life, the reference for him being decorated with the Pour la Merite is: Kirstin A. Schäfer: Werner von Blomberg – Hitlers erster Feldmarschall. Eine Biographie. Paderborn 2006. ISBN 3-506-71391-4, S. 25–29. (as cited in his article in the German wiki). Supporting evidence that he had it: it's the big cross hanging round his neck in the photograph. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.63.76 (talk) 10:15, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Honeymoon and suicide urging portion needs to be amended

The section of this article about Raeder sending an officer to repeatedly urge Blomberg to kill himself is wrong.

Raeder sent an officer to encourage Blomberg to divorce his wife but in a singular argument the officer became passionate and encouraged Blomberg to kill himself. Blomberg wrote about the incident to Keitel who, along with Göring, was upset at what the officer had done.

See this excerpt from Faver’s book about the Munich conference, available here: https://catalogtest.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/7848236/Excerpt

In a bizarre, tragicomic final twist to the story, they were pursued there by a young naval officer, Baron Hubertus von Wangenheim, who had acted as Blomberg's adjutant at the Wehrmachtsamt. Wangenheim had been despatched by Admiral Raeder in a final effort, as Keitel had made before his departure, to persuade Blomberg to divorce his wife and thus save the honor of the officer corps. However, the arrogant and overzealous young officer far exceeded his instructions. On finding Blomberg in his hotel, he first described in gruesome detail the full litany of Erna's previous indiscretions, and then thrust his revolver into the field marshal's face with the suggestion that he should do the honorable thing. Blomberg, who was by now enjoying married life far too much even to consider such nonsense, waved the young fanatic away and wrote angrily to Keitel, complaining that Wangenheim "apparently held entirely different opinions and a different standard of life." Keitel was furious that Wangenheim had gone to Capri without his permission, and that the clumsy attempt to offer Blomberg the honorable way out had shown "an extraordinary arrogance on the part of this young officer who believes it is his duty to be the guardian of the honour of the officer corps." Göring, meanwhile, was so angry that he threatened to have the young officer shot. A dead field marshal was the very last thing that either he or Hitler needed at that precise moment Saslett (talk) 07:44, 17 January 2025 (UTC)