Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr.

Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf senior ( born August 28, 1895 in Newark, New Jersey, † November 25, 1958 ) was an American police officer and Major General. He was known primarily as head of the New Jersey State Police during the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. He is also the father of the commander of the allied forces during the second Gulf War in 1991, Norman Schwarzkopf junior.

Life

Schwarzkopf's parents came from Germany, which he learned in addition to the English and the German language early. After 1917 successfully his training, the academy of the U.S. Army at West Point ended, he was employed as a lieutenant in the American Expeditionary Forces in France and returned with the rank of colonel returned to the United States.

After his return to the United States in 1921 Schwarzkopf first superintendent of the newly formed State Police of New Jersey, he should hold that office until 1936. He became known through the investigation of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.

In 1940 he again entered the service of the U.S. Army. Because of his experience as a police chief he was employed from August 1942 as a member of the U.S. military mission in Iran to reorganize the gendarmerie. 1948 Schwarzkopf was as head of the military mission for the reorganization of the gendarmerie ( GENMISH ) and head of the Iranian Gendarmerie of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi dismissed and replaced by the Iranian General Sadiq Kupal. Schwarzkopf then returned in the summer of 1948 back to the U.S..

After the end of his mission in Iran Schwarzkopf was, by this time Brigadier General, first deputy, later commander of all military police ( provost marshal ) for the U.S. zone of occupation in Germany.

In August 1953, Schwarzkopf was sent during the Abadan crisis in Iran to prepare for the operation Ajax together with the CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. that led to the overthrow of the incumbent Prime Mossadegh.

The end of 1953 he became a Major General in retirement. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf died on November 25, 1958 of complications from lung cancer. He was married to Ruth Bowman (1900-1977), a nurse from West Virginia.