Manfred Rommel (born December 24, 1928) is a German politician (CDU), who was Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996. He is one of the most popular local politicians of the CDU.
Rommel was born in Stuttgart, the only son of WWII Field Marshall Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel and Lucia Maria Mollin. At the age of 14, he entered service in the Luftwaffe, serving at an anti-aircraft battery. Later, Manfred considered joining th...
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Manfred Rommel (born December 24, 1928) is a German politician (CDU), who was Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996. He is one of the most popular local politicians of the CDU.
Rommel was born in Stuttgart, the only son of WWII Field Marshall Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel and Lucia Maria Mollin. At the age of 14, he entered service in the Luftwaffe, serving at an anti-aircraft battery. Later, Manfred considered joining the Waffen SS, but his father opposed it. After his father was forced to commit suicide for his alleged complicity in the July 20 Plot, he deserted from the Wehrmacht and surrendered to General de Lattre de Tassigny's French First Army.
Rommel collaborated with Basil Liddell-Hart in the edition of The Rommel Papers, a collection of diaries, letters and notes that his father wrote during and after his military campaigns. In 1947, he took his Abitur in Biberach an der Riß and went on to study law at the University of Tübingen. In 1956, he started...
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