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Wedderstedt Wedderstedt is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Selke-Aue Selke-Aue is a municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, German ...

– 26 May 1927, in

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) was a

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and

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during

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. He was a recipient of

Pour le Mérite The ' (; , ) is an order of merit (german: Verdienstorden) established in 1740 by Frederick the Great, King Frederick II of Prussia. The was awarded as both a military and civil honour and ranked, along with the Order of the Black Eagle, the Or ...

Awards

Iron Cross The Iron Cross (german: link=no, Eisernes Kreuz, , abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). King Frederick William III of Prussia est ...

II Class *

I Class *

(1 September 1916)

References

*''Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch'', Teil B 1941, Seite 480, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941 *

Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels The ''Almanach de Gotha'' (german: Gothaischer Hofkalender) is a directory of Europe's royalty and higher nobility, also including the major governmental, military and diplomatic corps, as well as statistical data by country. First published ...

, ''Adelslexikon'' Band XIV, Seite 54, Band 131 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003 *''Der Völkerkrieg'', Band 2, Seite 106, Casimir Hermann Baer (Herausgeber), Stuttgart 1914 1854 births 1927 deaths Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class Generals of Artillery (Prussia) Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class) German Army generals of World War I People from Harz (district) People from the Province of Saxony {{Germany-army-bio-stub