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Walter Friedrich Adolf von Bergmann  
(10.4.1864 - 7.3.1950)
place of birth:  Magdeburg, Sachsen  (Prussian Saxony)


German lieutenant general who served as von Kluck's Quartermaster General during the invasion of Belgium and sweep towards the Marne. He later served as commanding general of GenKdo 66 during the last few months of the war and commanded 13th Infantry Division for a couple months immediately following the War. As a general of infantry, Bergmann later commanded Wehrkreis V in Stuttgart and Gruppenkommando 1 in Berlin during the early 1920s.
 
Assignments and Commands  (pre-War)
16.11.1882 Leutnant
22.11.1910 XV. Armeekorps - Straßburg  (Fabeck's Chief of Staff)
31.11.1911 unknown
04.07.1913 Infanterie-Regiment ,,Graf Bose” (1. Thüringisches) Nr. 31 - Altona  (Cdr) 
   
Assignments and Commands  (during Great War)
02.08.1914 1. Armee  (Kluck's Quartermaster General)
00.00.1915 III. Armeekorps  (Lochow's Chief of Staff)
24.11.1915 12. Armee   (Fabeck's Chief of Staff)
05.10.1916 8. Armee  (Fabeck's Chief of Staff)
15.11.1916 unknown
25.02.1917 113. Infanterie-Division     (replaced Sontag)
28.02.1918 Military Government of Romania  (Chief of Staff)
15.07.1918 Generalleutnant
22.09.1918 Generalkommando 66     (replaced Esch)
   
Pour le Merite:  8 May 1918 
highest rank:  Generalleutnant

 



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