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Erich von Gündell
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Erich Gustav Wilhelm Theodor von Gündell (13.4.1854 - 23.121924) place of birth: Goslar, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) German general of infantry who was brought out of retirement when the war began to command a reserve corps on the Western Front attached to Crown Prince Wilhelm's Fifth Army. He subsequently commanded Army Detachment "B" during the last two years of the war. Near the end of the war, von Gündell chaired the Commission for Armistice negotiations which was set up by Chancellor von Baden subsequent to his Peace Note to President Wilson. Prior to the war, von Gündell was a delegate at the Hague Peace Conference of 1907, where he submitted an amendment recognizing the rights of civilians in occupied countries.
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