Schwarzkopf, Herbert, Sr., MG

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Last Rank
Major General
Last Service Branch
US
Last Primary MOS
0002-General Officer
Last MOS Group
General Officer
Primary Unit
1953-1957, Military Mission Iran
Service Years
1917 - 1953
Other Languages
German
Persian-Iranian-Farsi
US
Major General

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Home State
New Jersey
New Jersey
Year of Birth
1895
 
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Date of Passing
Nov 25, 1958
 

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He was the father of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the commander of all coalition forces for Operation Desert Shield/Storm (1990-1991).

 
The United States had declared war on Germany in April 1917, and needing a large number of Second Lieutenants, had directed that the senior class of West Point were to be graduated and commissioned immediately. In 1917, he was sent to Europe as part of the American Expeditionary Force, and while at the front, was gassed with Mustard Gas, which affected his lungs and made him susceptible to respiratory illnesses for the remainder of his life. For this, he was awarded the Purple Heart Medal. He would marry Ruth Bowman, a registered nurse from West Virginia (1900-1977) who helped care for him. Due to his leadership and his fluency in German, he was rapidly promoted to Colonel, and appointed Provost Marshal to the occupation forces in Germany following the end of the war. In 1921, he decided to leave the Army and accepted an appointment by New Jersey Governor Edward I. Edwards as the Commandant of the newly formed New Jersey State Police (Badge No. 1). Personally training the first 25 troopers, he organized the State Police into two troops: a northern troop on motorcycles to combat Mafia controlled activities such as narcotics, whiskey running, and gambling rings in the New Jersey suburbs of New York City, and a southern troop on horses, to combat the many moonshine rings that were circumventing the Prohibition laws. He became publicly known for his role in the 1932 Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping case, and when he narrated the popular radio show "Gang Busters" in the late 1930s. When the Army began building up again in 1940, he accepted a commission and reentered the Army as a Colonel, as the G-2 (Intelligence) of the 44th Infantry Division. In 1942, he was stationed with the Military Mission to Iran and tasked to train the Iranian police, for which he was later awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. His Iranian recruits would later suppress a Soviet inspired People's Republic of Azerbaijan in 1946. Following World War II, he was promoted to Brigadier General, and sent to Germany to serve as Deputy Provost Marshal for the American Zone of Occupation. In 1953, as a Major General, he was sent to Iran as part of a CIA inspired plot to convince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to return to Iran and take power there, and remained there long enough to organize and train the Iranian security forces which would guard the Shah. Returning to the United States, he retired from the Army in 1957 and died the following year in West Orange, New Jersey, from complications of lung cancer. At his request, he was buried in the US Military Academy National Cemetery at West Point.
 

 
 
 
 

   
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SCHWARZKOPF, HERBERT N 
  MAJ GEN AUS RET
  DATE OF BIRTH: 08/28/1895
  DATE OF DEATH: 11/25/1958
  BURIED AT: SECTION X  SITE 160
  US MILITARY ACADEMY
 
 
 
 
 
 

   

   1940-1942, 44th Infantry Division

Colonel
From Month/Year
- / 1940
To Month/Year
- / 1942
Unit
44th Infantry Division Unit Page
Rank
Colonel
MOS
Not Specified
Base, Fort or City
Fort Dix
State/Country
New Jersey
 
 
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 44th Infantry Division Details

44th Infantry Division
Type
Support
 
Parent Unit
Infantry Divisions
Strength
Division
Created/Owned By
Not Specified
   

Last Updated: Dec 18, 2010
   
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When the Army began building up again in 1940, he accepted a commission and reentered the Army as a Colonel, as the G-2 (Intelligence) of the 44th Infantry Division.

   
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7 Members Also There at Same Time
44th Infantry Division

Dean, William Frishe, MG, (1921-1955) Major General
Muir, James, MG, (1910-1945) USA 0002 Major General
Halsey, Milton, MG, (1917-1953) USA 0002 Brigadier General
Sibert, Franklin, MG, (1912-1946) USA 0002 Brigadier General
Bartz, Carl, T/4, (1942-1946) IN 745 Technician Fourth Grade
Hinkle, Estel, PFC, (1941-1945) IN 745 Private First Class
Vijil, Pablo R, PFC, (1942-1945) Private First Class

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