General Command 66

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The Generalkommando 66 was a large unit of the army of the German Empire in the First World War .

structure

The General Command 66 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 forerunner of the General Command was the Nowogrodek Army Group , named after a town in what is now Belarus . The General of the Infantry Ludwig von Held was appointed commander of the newly established General Command zbV No. 66 on April 15, 1917 . At the end of the war, the General Command was deployed on southern sections of the Western Front. It comprised at that time:

Commanding general

Rank Surname date
General of the Infantry Ludwig von Held April 15, 1917 to February 3, 1918
Lieutenant General Adolf von der Esch February 3, 1918 to September 22, 1918
Lieutenant General Walter von Bergmann September 22, 1918 until the end of the war