Detlof von Winterfeldt (28 May 1867-3 July 1940) was a German military attaché and a Major-General in the Imperial German Army.
Biography[]
Detlof von Winterfeldt was the son of General Rudolf von Winterfeldt, the brother of Hans von Winterfeldt, and the cousin of Joachim von Winterfeldt-Menkin. He joined the Imperial German Army in 1886 and served in the General Staff before being sent as a military attaché to Brussels in 1901 and to Paris in 1909. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1913, and he was given charge of a department of the General Staff at the outbreak of World War I. From August 1917 to November 1918, he served as a military representative to the Chancellor in Berlin, with the rank of Major-General. He was a member of the peace commission which signed the Armistice of Compiegne at the end of World War I, and he resigned from the commission in protest in January 1919, after which he was transferred to the army in September 1919 and retired shortly after. He died in Berlin in 1940, and two of his sons died during World War II.