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Karl Ritter von Fasbender
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Karl Ritter von Fasbender (3.12.1852 - 13.5.1933) place of birth: Michelbacherhütte bei Wiesbaden, Hessen (Hesse) German count who spent his entire pre-war career in service of the Bavarian Army and served as Bavarian Chief of General Staff from 1907 to 1908. He was the son of factory owner Karl Fasbender and his wife Elisabeth Lossen. After studying law at the University of Würzburg for just one year, in October 1872 he changed plans and joined the Bavarian 9th Infantry Regiment in Würzburg as a one-year volunteer. At mobilization, Fasbender was brought out of inactive reserve status to command the I. Bavarian Reserve Corps under Rupprecht's Sixth Army on the Western Front. Serving under him in the ranks during this time was a young private with the 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment named Adolf Hitler. Fasbender remained with the I. Reserves until just before war's end when he was given command of the Nineteenth Army for two weeks. Upon the recommendation of Crown Prince Rupprecht, Fasbender was awarded the Grand Cross of the Militär-Max-Joseph-Orden in May 1917. He died in Munich on 13 May 1933.
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