Falkenheim ww2
Falkenheim germany.
German high command ww1
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(11.09.1861 - 08.04.1922)
place of birth: Burg Belchau - Graudenz Westpreußen (Grydziadz, PL)
Königreich Preußen: Kriegsminister, Generalstabschef, General der Infanterie
Bornto an impoverished but aristocratic Junker family in West Prussia (parents: Fedor von Falkenhayn and Franziska von Rosenberg), young Erich was commissioned as a second lieutenant by age 19.
Twenty years later, in the early 1900s, Major von Falkenhayn found himself serving in China as a military instructor and on Count von Waldersee's general staff during the Boxer Rebellion. A favorite of Wilhelm II -- he had been one of young Crown Prince Willy's military instructors -- Falkenhayn returned to Germany, worked his way up through several staff positions and, one
