12/31/2022 0 Comments Lucia maria mollin![]() Patton, who was assigned to the VII Corps headquarters near the city. Army Major General George Patton IV, the son of his father's World War II adversary, General George S. While Oberbürgermeister of Stuttgart, Rommel began a much-publicised friendship with U.S. In defending his decision against criticism from within his own party, Rommel said "All enmity must end at some point and I think in this case it ends with death" As the mayor of Stuttgart, he was also known for his effort to give the Red Army Faction terrorists who had committed suicide at the Stuttgart- Stammheim prison a proper burial, despite the concern that the graves would become a pilgrimage point for radical leftists. He was re-elected after the first round of elections in 1982 with 69.8% and in 1990 with 71.7% of the votes. In 1974, Rommel succeeded Arnulf Klett as Oberbürgermeister (equivalent to Mayor) of Stuttgart by winning 58.5% of the votes in the second round of elections, defeating Peter Conradi of the Social Democratic Party. ![]() After a stint working as a lawyer, in 1956, Rommel entered the civil service and later became state secretary in the state government of Baden-Württemberg. He married Liselotte in 1954 and had a daughter named Catherine. In 1947, he took his Abitur while studying in Biberach an der Riß and went on to study law at the University of Tübingen. He was taken prisoner of war, was interrogated by (among others) general Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, and disclosed the truth about his father's death. Stationed in Riedlingen at the end of April, he deserted just before the French First Army entered the town. ![]() ![]() In February 1945, Rommel was dismissed from air force service and in March was conscripted into the paramilitary Reichsarbeitsdienst service. On 14 October 1944, he was present at his parents' house when his father was led off to be forced to commit suicide for his alleged complicity in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, which was publicly portrayed by the Nazi leadership as a death resulting from a war injury. He considered joining the Waffen SS, but his father opposed it. Rommel was born in Stuttgart and entered service as a Luftwaffenhelfer (air force assistant) in 1943 at age 14, serving in an anti-aircraft battery. ![]()
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