General Command 64

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The Generalkommando 64 (Württemberg) was a large unit of the army of the German Empire in the First World War .

structure

General Command 64 was a General Command z. b. V. ( General Command for Special Use ). These emerged from 1916 and were purely command posts; the military units were assigned to him as required.

history

The Kingdom of Württemberg placed next to the state-owned XIII. Army Corps set up a second General Command, which, however, did not have any Württemberg troops.

On January 5, 1917, the Württemberg General of the Cavalry Wilhelm Karl von Urach , head of the House of Urach, a Württemberg branch line and previous commander of the 26th Division, took over command of the newly established General Command zbV No. 64 , which had been in charge since December 31, 1916 Lieutenant Colonel von Wöllwarth as chief of staff took over the organization of the association.

The General Command 64 was part of the Army Department B of General Erich von Gündell in the section of the Eastern Army Group Duke Albrecht von Württemberg . The command was given the task of defending the approximately 70-kilometer-wide section between Markirch and Gebweiler . Schoppenweier north of Colmar served as the headquarters of the General Command . Major fighting did not take place in 1917/18 on this difficult mountain front of the Vosges .

The general command included at the end of the war in October 1918

Commanding general

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General / General of the Cavalry Wilhelm Karl von Urach January 1917 until the end of the war

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