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Viktor Albrecht
(3.3.1859 - 28.11.1930)
place of birth:  Danzig  (Gdansk, Poland)


 German lieutenant general who began the war as division-level commander of the 1st Guard Reserves under Gallwitz' elite Guard Reserve Corps (attached to Second Army). Following the War of the Frontiers, his unit was sent to besiege the fortress at Namur, Belgium and was then transferred to the Eighth Army on the Eastern Front. Albrecht served as corps commander during the last two years of the war. Albrecht also received the honorary rank of General der Infanterie in 1919.





 
Assignments and Commands  (pre-War)
01.10.1879 ,,Kaiser Alexander” Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 1 - Berlin     (Einjährig Freiwilliger)
09.05.1880 2. Nassauisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 88 - Mainz
12.03.1881 Leutnant
22.03.1887 Oberleutnant
01.10.1888 Danziger Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 128 - Danzig
17.06.1891 Hauptmann
22.03.1897 9. Westpreußisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 176 - Kulm
27.01.1900 Grenadier-Regiment ,,Friedrich Wilhelm I” (2. Ostpreußisches) Nr. 3 - Königsberg
27.01.1900 Major
15.11.1904 Jäger-Bataillon ,,Graf Yorck von Wartenburg” (Ostpreußisches) Nr. 1 - Ortelsburg
10.04.1906 Oberstleutnant
20.04.1909 Oberst
07.07.1909 5. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß - Spandau  (Cdr)
19.12.1911 Inspektion der Marine-Infanterie - Kiel  (Inspector General)
01.10.1912 Generalmajor
02.07.1913 3. Garde-Infanterie-Brigade - Berlin  (Cdr)
   
Assignments and Commands  (during Great War)
02.08.1914 1. Garde-Reserve-Division
18.04.1916 Generalleutnant
24.01.1917 XVIII. Armeekorps     (replaced Schenck)
27.08.1918 zur Disposition gestellt
02.10.1918 XX. Armeekorps     (reformed from Armeeabteilung "D") 
   
Pour le Merite:  22 August 1915
highest rank:  Generalleutnant




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