Early Years
Erwin von Witzleben was born in Breslau in Prussian Silesia to an Uradel family of old nobility and many officers descending from Witzleben in Thuringia. He completed the Prussian cadet corps program in Wahlstatt, Silesia and Lichterfelde near Berlin, and on 22 June 1901 joined the Grenadier Regiment (König Wilhelm I) No. 7 in Liegnitz as lieutenant. In 1910, he was promoted to first lieutenant.
He was married to Else Kleeberg (who was born in Chemnitz, Saxony). The couple had a son and a daughter.
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