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Viktor Theodor Wilhelm Hahndorff
(20.2.1858 - 5.10.1935)
place of birth:  


General Hahndorff served the final two years of the Great War as Deputy Chief of General Staff to Field Marshal von Hindenburg. Hahndorff had previously been a division-level commander on both the Eastern and Western Front.





 
Assignments and Commands  (pre-War)
11.02.1879 Leutnant
16.06.1906 4. Badisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr.66 - Lahr  (Cdr)
19.11.1909 unknown
00.00.0000 Generalmajor
02.05.1912 36. Feldartillerie-Brigade - Danzig  (Cdr)
   
Assignments and Commands  (during Great War)
29.08.1914 36. Feldartillerie-Brigade  =  8. Armee
25.11.1914 4. Reserve-Division     (replaced von Thiesenhausen)
14.06.1915 107. Infanterie-Division     (replaced von Moser)
01.11.1916 Generalleutnant
16.11.1916 Oberste Heeresleitung, Generalquartiermeister - Pless  (Hindenburg's Deputy Chief of GenStaff)     (replaced Wild)
   
Pour le Merite:  n/a
highest rank:  Generalleutnant





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