Walburga Stemmer

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Walburga Stemmer (died 1928) was a fruit-seller living in Weingarten (Württemberg) who historians John Bierman and Colin Smith assert had an affair with Erwin Rommel and gave birth to his daughter, Gertrud Pan, in 1913. Rommel turned away from her and in 1916 married another woman, Lucie Mollin.

Stemmer died in 1928, a few months before Rommel had a child, Manfred, with Lucie. Her cause of death is sometimes given as pneumonia though others claim that she committed suicide.

• The Battle of Alamein: Turning Point, World War II, by Bierman and Smith (2002). ISBN 0-670-03040-6
• Biography of Rommel on Channel 4 in part describing his relationship with Stemmer