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Erwin Rommel's mistress

Walburga Stemmer (March – October ) was a woman who had an affair with German field marshal Erwin Rommel and gave birth to his daughter, Gertrud Stemmer (later Mrs.

Gertrud Pan), on 8 December Rommel's family put pressure on him to leave Stemmer and return to his fiancée Lucie Mollin, whom he soon married.

Stemmer died in , when Rommel's wife Lucie was pregnant with the couple's son Manfred.

Her cause of death was given as pneumonia, though it is generally accepted that she probably committed suicide.

Life

Stemmer was the daughter of a seamstress. She was twenty years old and working as a fruit-seller in Weingarten (Württemberg) when she met Rommel, who was assigned to the area to train army recruits.^[1] He was separated from his fiancée Lucie, who was studying in Danzig.

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In , a year after he met Walburga, their daughter Gertrud was born, to Rommel's delight. He wrote to Walburga, calling her his "little mouse". He sa