Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Waldersee
(1.9.1860 - 7.9.1932)
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German lieutenant general who briefly served as Eighth Army Command's Chief of Staff as the Great War broke out on the Eastern Front. He was fired at the end of August 1914 along with his commander Generaloberst von Prittwitz, when German Supreme Army Command replaced them with the historic pairing of Generals von Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Prior to the Great War, von Waldersee had served as von Bissing's VII. Corps Chief of Staff and was also a Senior Quartermaster on Germany's Great General Staff.