Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, who succeeded Hitler as head of the German state, accepted unconditional surrender. He sent Colonel General Alfred Jodl and General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeburg to General Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims. There Jodl signed the final surrender document on May 7, effective May 8. On May 9 Friedeburg, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel, and General Hans Jürgen Stumpff signed a similar document in Marshal Zhukov's headquarters in Berlin.