1 July 1916
Battle of the Somme, 1st
Commands German Second Army at the opening of the Allied Somme attack.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Somme in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Commands German Second Army at the opening of the Allied Somme attack.
Takes command of German Second Army after German forces on the Somme are reorganised.
Takes command of the reorganised German Second Army south of the Somme.
Commands German First Army forces resisting the British and Dominion attacks on the Somme front.
Injured by a grenade splinter & returns to Germany for the 1st time in 2 yrs
German forces complete the withdrawal from exposed Somme positions to the new defensive line.
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