Walter Karl Ernst August von Reichenau (8 October 1884 – 17 January 1942) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was nicknamed "The Bull."

Walter Karl Gustav August Ernst von Reichenau war ein deutscher Heeresoffizier. Er war seit 1933 federführend bei der Eingliederung der Reichswehr in den NS-Staat tätig. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges war Reichenau als Armee- und Heeresgruppenoberbefehlshaber an führender Stelle an Kriegsverbrechen in der Sowjetunion beteiligt.

Walter von Reichenau, the son of a Prussian general, was born in Germany on August 16t, 1884. He joined the German Army when he was eighteen and, in 1904, became an officer in the 1st Guards Field Artillery Regiment.

2025年1月13日 · Walther von Reichenau was a German field marshal who commanded the army that captured Warsaw (1939) and the 6th Army in its encircling movement through Belgium (1940) on the Western front during World War II.

Von Reichenau was Chief of the Wehrmachtamt, until then the-Ministeramt. He was a strong personality and full of initiative, a man of action and instinct rather than of intellect. Ambitious, clever, highly educated, even a poet, he was nevertheless of a sturdy nature and a sportsman.

2025年1月19日 · Walther von Reichenau was a confidant of Adolf Hitler and had responsibility in the assacianation of Ernst Röhm and the deminishing of the SA during the Night of the long Knives". In 1940 he was promoted to Generalfeldmarschall and was also responsible for many warcrimes committed at the Easter front by military under his command.

Walter Karl Ernst August von Reichenau (8 October 1884 – 17 January 1942) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was nicknamed "The Bull." Reichenau commanded the 6th Army, during the invasions of …

Walther von Reichenau was born to a Prussian general and followed his father's footsteps by joining the German Army in 1902. By 1904, he was an officer with the 1st Guards Field Artillery Regiment. He entered War Academy in 1914, and then fought in WW1 on the Western Front, earning an Iron Cross. He remained in the army after Germany's defeat.

Walther von Reichenau. Born October 8, 1884 in Karlsruhe, Germany died January 17, 1942, in flight near Poltava, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.) Reichenau was born in Karlsruhe to a Prussian general and joined the German Army in 1903. During World War I he served on the Western Front.

Walter Karl Ernst August von Reichenau was a German Generalfeldmarschall in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was nicknamed "The Bull." Reichenau commanded the 6th Army, during the invasions of Belgium and France.