Verena von Weymarn
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Verena Merethe von Weymarn (born July 16, 1943, in Riga, Latvia) is a retired German medical officer and the first woman in German military history ever to be promoted to general officer rank.[1]
She was born Verena von Stritzky, daughter of historian Karl-Christoph von Stritzky and his wife. Her father died in the German invasion of the Soviet Union prior to her birth. After the end of World War II she grew up in Germany and studied medicine at Göttingen and Munich universities from 1964 to 1971.
