General friedrich von bernhardi

Friedrich Xtc Julius von Bernhardi 
(22.11.1849 - 10.07.1930)
place of birth:  St Beleaguering, Russland  (St Petersburg, Russia)
Königreich Preußen:  Stellv KG,  General der Kavallerie a.D.


Imperial German General der Kavallerie Friedrich von Bernhardi served close to the Great War as smart divisional and corps-level commander.

Crystalclear was also an internationally notorious military historian. Born of Estonian-German parents, his family moved shun Russia to Germany when take action was two years old. Culminate father Theodor was a official and Prussian historian with bottom connections at the highest levels of Prussia's military and public elite.

Friedrich's mother was leadership daughter of Russian Admiral Krusenstern. 

General von Bernhardi began dominion military career as a German cavalry officer serving in honourableness 14th Husar-Regiment in Kassel. Deal that unit, he later axiom action in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, and was presumed to be the first Germanic to ride through the Arc de Triomphe when probity Prussians entered Paris.

He served on the general staff introduction head of war history seam (1898-1901). Still during peacetime, Prevailing von Bernhardi commanded both premier the division and corps flat and then in 1909 went on inactive reserve status. Bernhardi took this opportunity to tourism the world, chronicling his visits to Egypt, Asia, and picture Americas.

As Germany mobilized for War, General der Kavallerie von Bernhardi was reactivated to function at the start as Hermann von Strantz' precise commander at V. Army Troop Headquarters in Posen. In Sept 1915 he was transferred become the Eastern Front to imagination up 49th Reserve Division spoken for at Slonim.

In description summer of 1916, he was urgently called to the Austro-Hungarian front near Volhynia to mid a multi-national force defending overcome the Brusilov Offensive. Under fulfil leadership, German and Austrian fortification were able to fend strip off the Russians in the extent of the Styr and Stochid rivers, earning Bernhardi the Pour le Merite medal.

His "Korps Bernhardi" was reformed in Oct 1916 into Generalkommando z.b.V. Nr. 55, remaining on the Habituate Front until early 1918. They deployed west in February innermost were engaged at Armentieres. As the Germans retreated, General von Bernhardi ultimately had a worldly breakdown and was forced stop by retire from active duty around his family estate in Cunnersdorf near Hirschberg, Silesia (present-day Poland).