Wolfgang Muff
German general
Wolfgang Muff (15 March 1880 – 17 May 1947) was a German career military officer who fought in both world wars. Beginning in 1899, he served successively in the Imperial German Army, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht, attaining the rank of General of the Infantry during World War II and retiring in 1943.
Service in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic
Born in 1880 at Ulm to Generalleutnant Karl von Muff, Wolfgang Muff attended the Karlsgymnasium in Stuttgart and joined the Army of Württemberg, a component of the Imperial German Army, as an officer cadet in 1899. Assigned to the 126th (8th Württemberg) Infantry Regiment in Strasbourg, he was commissioned as a Leutnant in 1900. He served as a battalion adjutant and was seconded to the Prussian Staff College in Berlin in 1908. Rising through the ranks, he fought in World War I and served in several staff positions, including that of the Chief of Field Railways, and he also was attached for a time to the Great General Staff. He participated in the 2nd Army's 1918 spring offensive in France as a battalion commander with the 120th (2nd Württemberg) Infantry Regiment, and was severely wounded. Muff was heavily decorated, including earning both classes of the Iron Cross. At the end of the war, he was a Major on the staff of Army Group Gallwitz.
Muff remained in the post-war Reichswehr during the Weimar Republic and was assigned to Wehrkreis (military district) V in Stuttgart.
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