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Erich Gustav Wilhelm Theodor von Gündell
(13.4.1854 - 23.121924)
place of birth:  Goslar


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.





"A belligerent is also forbidden to force local nationals of the adverse party to be involved in the operations of war directed against their country, even if they served before war's outbreak."

                                                Major General  Erich von Gündell
                                                * Hague Peace Conference - 1907





Assignments and Commands  (pre-War)
01.04.1873  -  30.09.1881 Infanterie-Regiment Großherzhog von Sachsen (5. Thüringisches) Nr. 94 - Weimar     (Lt:  15.10.1874)
01.10.1881  -  19.07.1884 Königliche Kriegsakademie - Berlin     (Olt:   17.10.1883)
20.07.1884  -  31.03.1887 Infanterie-Regiment Großherzhog von Sachsen (5. Thüringisches) Nr. 94 - Weimar   
01.04.1887  -  23.03.1890 Großer Generalstab - Berlin     (Hpt:  22.3.1888)
24.03.1890  -  04.05.1891 6. Infantry-Division - Berlin  (General Staff)
05.05.1891  -  26.01.1893 Füsilier-Regiment Fürst Karl-Anton von Hohenzollern (1. Hohenzollernsches) Nr. 40 - Rastatt  (Coy Cdr)   
27.01.1893  -  30.09.1894 Großer Generalstab - Berlin     (Maj:  15.8.1893)
01.10.1894  -  13.12.1897 Königliche Kriegsakademie - Berlin  (Instructor)    
14.12.1897  -  12.09.1899 5. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.113 - Freiburg  (Bn Cdr)   
13.09.1899  -  08.07.1900  Großer Generalstab - Berlin  (Section Chief)     (Obslt:  18.4.1900)
09.07.1900  -  30.10.1901 Ostasiatisches Expeditionskorps  (Chief of Staff - East Asian Expedition Corps) 
31.10.1901  -  04.11.1901 Commission on East Asian Expedition
05.01.1901  -  23.04.1904 I. Armeekorps - Königsberg  (General Staff)     (Ob:  22.4.1902)
24.04.1904  -  21.02.1906 Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen (2. Magdeburgisches) Nr. 27 - Halberstadt  (Cdr)    
22.02.1906  -  00.00.0000 Großer Generalstab, Oberquartiermeister - Berlin  (Senior Quartermaster)     (GM:  14.6.1906)
00.00.0000  -  01.08.1914 außer Dienst
   
Assignments and Commands  (during Great War)
02.08.1914  -  02.09.1916 V. Reservekorps  =  5. Armee
03.09.1916  -  11.11.1918 Armeeabteilung "B"     (replaced Gaede) 
   
Pour le Merite:  28 August 1916
highest rank:  General der Infanterie




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