Walter Warlimont

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Walter Warlimont
Warlimont in 1939
Deputy Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command
In office 1 September 1939 – 6 September 1944
Leader	Alfred Jodl
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Horst Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels
Personal details
Born	(1894-10-03)3 October 1894 Osnabrück, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died	9 October 1976(1976-10-09) (aged 82) Kreuth, Bavaria, West Germany
Spouse	Anita von Kleydorff ​ (m. 1927)​
Parent(s)	Louis Warlimont (father) Anna Rinck (mother)
Military service
Allegiance	German Empire  Weimar Republic  Nazi Germany
Branch/service	Imperial German Army  Reichsheer  German Army
Years of service	1914–1945
Rank	General of the Artillery
Battles/wars	World War I World War II

Walter Warlimont (3 October 1894 – 9 October 1976) was a German staff officer during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Armed Forces High Command. Following the war, Warlimont was convicted in the High Command Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal. He was released in 1954.