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| serviceyears= 1895–1938; 1939–1942 | rank=''Generalfeldmarschall'' | commands= | unit= | battles= | awards= | laterwork=}} Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb (5 September 1876 – 29 April 1956) was a German field marshal of the Second World War, during which his younger brother, Emil Leeb, rose to the rank of ''General der Artillerie''. In 1940, after the Fall of France, Leeb was promoted to field marshal during the 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony. ==Youth== Born in Landsberg am Lech, Upper Bavaria. When his father, Major Adolf Leeb relocated to Passau, his wife Katharina, a Hengersberg native, and their son came with him. Their daughter Hedwig and their son Emil Leeb were born in Passau.〔Anna Rosmus ''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 243f〕 The young Wilhelm Josef Franz Leeb joined the Bavarian Army in 1895 as an officer cadet. After being commissioned as a lieutenant of artillery, Leeb served in China during the Boxer Rebellion. He later attended the Bavarian War Academy in Munich from 1907 to 1909, before two years' service on the General Staff in Berlin until 1911. Promoted to captain, Leeb served as a battery commander in the Bavarian 10th Field Artillery Regiment at Erlangen (1912–1913). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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