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Bernhard Franz Karl Adolf von Hülsen
(20.4.1865 - 21.4.1950)
place of birth:  Kosel, Schleswig-Holstein


Bernhard von Hülsen served as a Prussian officer during the Great War, but is best known for commanding his namesake Freikorps Hülsen during the Weimar Republic. Upon the dissolution of the Freikorps into the Reichswehr, von Hülsen became head of the Reichswehr-Brigrade 3 in Potsdam.
 
Assignments and Commands  (pre-War)
20.03.1911 XIV. Armeekorps - Karlsruhe  (von Hoiningen's Chief of Staff)
07.07.1913 5. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß - Spandau  (Cdr)
   
Assignments and Commands  (during Great War)
02.08.1914 5. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß  (Cdr)
30.08.1914 Marine-Division Flandern  (Admiral von Schröder's Chief of Staff)     (redesignated Marinekorps Flandern)  
15.11.1914 Marinekorps Flandern
01.07.1916 3. Garde-Infanterie-Brigade  (Cdr)
02.01.1917 231. Infanterie-Division  (Cdr)
   
Assignments and Commands  (post-War)
01.05.1919 Reichswehr-Brigade 3 - Potsdam  (Cdr)
   
Pour le Merite:  n/a
highest rank:  Generalleutnant




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