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Günther Graf von Kirchbach
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Günther Emanuel 2. Graf von Kirchbach (1850-1925) place of birth: Erfurt (Saxony) Saxon count and colonel general who began military career in 1868 as an infantry officer. Participated in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) as a second lieutenant. By 1907 he was a general of infantry in command of the V. Army Corps in the Duchy of Posen. In 1911 he was appointed to preside over the Imperial Military Tribunal (Reichsmilitärgericht). At war's outbreak, he was under Bülow's Second Army on the Western Front as commander of the X. Reserves but was wounded early on and spent the next two years on convalescence leave. In the fall of 1916 he served on the Eastern Front as commander of a Landwehrkorps and of Army Detachment "D". He remained in the East for the rest of the war as commander of the Eighth Army and Army Group Kiev.
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