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Friedrich Paulus
Friedrich Paulus was born in Breitenau, Germany, on September 23, 1890. The son of a treasurer, Paulus attempted to become an officer-cadet in the German Navy but was rejected because of his lack of aristocratic blood. After briefly studying law at the University of Marburg he joined the German Army in 1910. The following year he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment.
On the outbreak of the First World War Paulus was adjutant of the III Battalion. In 1915 he was assigned to the staff of the 2nd Prussian Jaeger Regiment and two years later to the operations staff of the Alpine Corps. During the war he served on the Eastern Front and the Western Front.
Paulus remained in the army after the war and was appointed adjutant to the 14th Infantry Regiment at Konstanz. In 1922, he was given general staff training and the following year joined Army Group 2 at Kassel. From 1924 to 1927, he was a General Staff officer with Wehrkreis V at Stuttgart. One senior officer commented that Paulus was: "slow, but very methodical". Anothe
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Friedrich Paulus
German field marshal (1890–1957)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 to February 1943). The battle ended in disaster for the Wehrmacht when Soviet forces encircled the Germans within the city, leading to the ultimate death or capture of most of the 265,000-strong 6th Army, their Axis allies, and collaborators.
Paulus fought in World War I and saw action in France and the Balkans. He was considered a promising officer; by the time World War II broke out, he had been promoted to major general. Paulus took part in the invasions of Poland and the Low Countries, after which he was named deputy chief of the German Army General Staff. In that capacity, Paulus helped plan the invasion of the Soviet Union.
In 1942, Paulus was given command of the 6th Army despite his lack of field experience. He led the drive to Stalingrad but was cut off and surrounded in t
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Paulus and Stalingrad; the names are always linked, the German commander who suffered
one of the greatest military defeats in history and the hitherto unknown Russian city where that
defeat took place.
Friedrich Paulus was born in 1890, in that narrow window of time which brought him to the
First World War as a junior officer and to the Second as a general. His birthplace was
Breitenau, a little country town deep in Hesse. His ancestors were of basic country stock
but some became minor public servants; Paulus's father was the cashier of an approved
school. He inherited good health, a fine physique and a noble bearing from those forebears
but he was far from being a 'von' a prefix frequently but mistakenly attributed to him. He
soon suffered from his lack of social status. After performing well at school, he applied for
a cadetship in the Imperial Navy but was refused. Disappointed, he turned to the study of law
at Marburg University but was quickly released from this when the German Army started to
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