Waldemar Erfurth

Waldemar Erfurth (4 August 1879 – 2 May 1971) was a German general of infantry, a writer and liaison officer to Finland during World War II.

Erfurth was born in Berlin. He served in World War I, winning the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern. After the war, he continued in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. As German–Finnish military relations intensified in early 1941, Erfurth was posted as liaison officer at the Finnish headquarters in St. Michel, where he served from 1941 to 1944. His principal Finnish counterpart was the chief of the general staff, Erik Heinrichs. After the war he published extensively on military history, including works on the Murmansk Railway and his time at the Finnish headquarters. He died in Tübingen.

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