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Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders (17.2.1855 - 22.8.1929) place of birth: Stolp (Slupsk - Pomerania) General of cavalry who molded the Ottoman Army into an effective fighting force. Commanded the Fifth Turkish Army during its defense of Gallipoli (1915), thus preventing allied seizure of Constantinople. Commanded Fourth, Seventh and Eighth Turkish Armies in Syria and Palestine (1918) and replaced Falkenhayn as commander of Army Group Yildirim (1918). In Palestine he was defeated by the British under Allenby and the Arabs under T.E. Lawrence. Due to ancestry (his father was the Jewish banker Isaac Liepmann), he was considered by fellow generals such as von Seeckt to be unfit to command a German corps. Liman died on 22 August 1929 in Munich at the age of 74. |
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