# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/werner-von-blomberg
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:27:12.357Z

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name: "Werner von Blomberg"
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description: "Germany's first Nazi-era war minister, the field marshal who rearmed Hitler's Wehrmacht and purged its ranks of dissenters — then found himself ousted in a sex scandal engineered by Göring and Himmler when his enthusiasm for the regime's war plans cooled."
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deathDate: "1946-03-14"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Werner von Blomberg served on the Western Front in World War I and climbed to chief of the Truppenamt, the covert General Staff, during the Weimar years from 1927 to 1929. President Hindenburg appointed him Defence Minister in January 1933, the same month Hitler took power. Renamed Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Blomberg steered Germany's rearmament and cleared the officer corps of anyone who balked at the new order. But as he grew wary of Nazi foreign adventurism, Göring and Himmler manufactured the Blomberg–Fritsch affair in 1938 and forced him out. He spent the war in obscurity, surfacing only at Nuremberg as a witness shortly before his death in March 1946.