Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt

Infobox Military Person
name= Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt
lived=birth date|1887|7|13|df=y — death date and age|1943|5|9|1887|7|13|df=y
placeofbirth=Perleberg
placeofdeath=Berlin


caption=
nickname=
allegiance=flagicon|German Empire German Empire (to 1918)
flagicon|Germany Weimar Republic (to 1933)
flagicon|Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
branch=Heer
serviceyears=1907-1943
rank=General der Infanterie
commands=23. Infanterie-Division
XXVIII. Armeekorps
II. Armeekorps
unit=
battles=World War I
*Battle of Verdun
World War II
*Operation Barbarossa
*Demyansk Pocket
awards=Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves
laterwork=

Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt [German title|Graf] (13 July 1887 – 9 May 1943) was a German general of the Infantry, serving during World War II.

Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt became ill in November 1942 and had to return to Germany. He died 9 May 1943 in the Reservelazarett 123 in Berlin-Zehlendorf.

Awards

* Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st Class
* Wound Badge (1918) in Black
* Cross of Honor
* "Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung IV. bis I. Klasse"
* "Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938"
* Eastern Front Medal
* Demyansk shield
* Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
** 2nd Class (19 September 1939)
** 1st Class (20 October 1939)
* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
** Knight's Cross (15 July 1941)
** 103. Oak Leaves (27 June 1942)

References

*cite web|title=Lexikon der Wehrmacht|work=Erich Abraham| url= http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/B/BrockdorffAhlefeldt.htm|accessdate=13 April| accessyear=2008
* Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer. "Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945". Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas, 2000. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.