Short answers, pulled from the story.
Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was born on the 15th of November 1891 in Heidenheim from Ulm within the Kingdom of Württemberg. His father served as an artillery lieutenant before becoming a local government official.
Erwin Rommel fought in Romania and Italy during World War I while leading his battalion to capture 81 guns and 9,000 Italian soldiers at Matajur and Longarone in October 1917. These actions earned him the Pour le Mérite which is Germany's highest military honor.
The invasion of France began on the 10th of May 1940 under Erwin Rommel's command of the 7th Panzer Division. His forces advanced rapidly to reach the Meuse River by the third day and took 10,000 prisoners on the 17th of May while losing only 36 men.
Rommel arrived in Tripoli on the 12th of February 1941 to command the new Afrika Korps. He rejected instructions from the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht to hold a defensive line near Sirte and launched an offensive with only part of his forces available on the 24th of March 1941.
On the 17th of July 1944 Erwin Rommel's staff car was strafed by Allied fighters near Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery causing him to suffer three skull fractures that forced his removal from command. Two generals from Hitler's headquarters visited him at his home on the 14th of October 1944 and he chose suicide to avoid execution.