Alfred von Oberndorff (9 December 1870-16 March 1963) was a German diplomat and a co-signer of the Armistice of Compiegne in 1918.
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Alfred Maria Fortunatus Franziskus Caesar Graf von Oberndorff was born in Edingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany in 1870. Oberndorff served in the German Foreign Service in Madrid from 1900 to 1905, in Brussels from 1905 to 1907, in Madrid from 1907 to 1910, in Vienna from 1910 to 1912, in Norway from 1912 to 1916, in Bulgaria from 1916 to 1918, and in Poland from 1920 to 1921. During World War I, he served as the German Empire's representative for foreign policy issues, and, in that capacity, he co-signed the Armistice of Compiegne on 11 November 1918, ending the war. He advocated for rapprochement with France during the 1920s, and he died in Heidelberg in 1963 at the age of 93.