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Jun 19, 2002 · Family: Wilhelm Keitel married Lisa Fontaine in April 1909 – three sons (Karl-Heinz, Ernst-Wilhelm, Hans-Georg) and three daughters, one of whom died early from an incurable disease (Nona and Erika).
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Keitel was the uncle of Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, wife of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, where the first atomic bombs were developed.
Wilhelm Keitel married Lisa Fontaine, the wealthy daughter of a landowner, in April 1909. The couple had six children, though one of them died as an infant. His eldest son, Karl-Heinz Keitel, joined the military, following in his father’s footsteps.
Wilhelm Keitel, field marshal and head of the German Armed Forces High Command during World War II. One of Adolf Hitler’s most loyal and trusted lieutenants, he became chief of the Fuhrer’s personal military staff and helped direct most of the Third Reich’s World War II campaigns.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 13, 2018 · On April 18, 1909 he married Lisa Fontaine, daughter of a real estate owner. The marriage would produce 6 children one of which passed away at a tender age. Shortly after the outbreak of WW 1, in September 1914, Keitel was injured on his lower left arm by a piece of shrapnel at the front in Belgium.
Walter Dornberger, Werhner von Braun, and Ernst Steinhof met with Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, and Alfred Jodl at the Wolf's Lair (Wolfsschanze) in Rastenburg, Germany (now Kętrzyn, Poland).
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was commander of all German armed forces during World War II. Learn about his military career and postwar trial.
