Hans Kannengiesser (1868 - 1945) was a
German
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military officer during
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. He was among the German advisors to the
Ottoman Empire
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when the First World War broke out. As opposed to being a liaison officer with the Ottoman Army, he commanded Ottoman troops in the field including the
Ottoman 9th Division. The 9th Division was part of the
Fifth Army, which was commanded during part of the Gallipoli campaign by German General
Otto Liman von Sanders
Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders (; 17 February 1855 – 22 August 1929) was an Imperial German Army general who served as a military adviser to the Ottoman Army during the First World War. In 1918 he commanded an Ottoman army during the Sin ...
.
Early in the battle he was wounded by a machine gun bullet to the chest first by the New Zealanders. On September 7th he had recovered enough to return to the front. After the war, Kannengiesser wrote a book about the battle of Gallipoli "The Campaign in Gallipoli".
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German Army generals of World War I
Ottoman Army officers
Ottoman military personnel of World War I
1868 births
1945 deaths
People from Görlitz
Military personnel from Saxony