Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-23
NOTABLE GERMANS
ARE IN COMMAND
Bit Of Information Concern
ing Teuton Commanders
in the Present War.

Washington, d. c., Sept. 23.-Much
as has been written about h German
armies in france and their comman-
ders, Americans know little or moth
ing about the latter.
The two German commanders
whose names have f~igured-most prom
inently in the war news are General
eral Karl w. P. Won Buelow. Both
are elderly men, having passed their
Goth birthday last spring.
General Won Kluck was born at
Muensten, in Westphalia, and was ed
ucated in the gymnasium In that city.
He entered the army in 1866, and
took part In the campaign Of 1866
as q second lieutenant Of the 56th in.
fantry.
He held that rank in the Franco
Prussian war. during which he was
twice wounded in the Metz campaign.
and not until 1878 did he become a
first lieutenant. The next year he was
married I'm 1875 he became adjutant
years later he won his ~captaincy.
From 1881 to 1884 he was attached
to a military school at Juelich. a sub
urb of AK, and he was then made
commanding officer at Annaburg,
and. after. becoming a major in 1887,
at Neu Breisach.
In 1889 he received command Of
a battalion Of the 66th infantry and
was made its lieutenant colonel in
1893. Three years later he became
colonel, with command OF the Land
wehr district of Berlin. and in 1898
he obtained the saith Fusilier regi-
ment. -.
A major general the next year
commanding the 23rd infantry bri-
gade, in 1902 he reached the rank Of
lieutenant general and command of
the 37th division. In 1906 he was
charged with the direction of the 5th
Army Corps, and later in the same
year he was commissioned general of
infantry.
From 1907 for six years he COM
manded the First Army Corps, and
last ear he was made inspector gen.
eral Of the Seventh inspection district,
with headquarters at Koenigsberg. He
has been decorated with the Iron
Cross. second class.
General von Buelow. who directed
the most Of the fighting in Belgium
and who was enormously reported
killed in one OF the engagements
there. has had a r very SINH
though including more STAFF than line
commands.
He was born in Berlin in 1876,
studied at the Hamm und Wilhelm
gymnasium. and October 81, 1854,
Joined tho Second Guards regiment,
the same in which his younger son
is now a lieutenant.
In the war between Prussia and
Austria in 1865 he served as lieute.
nant and was slightly wounded al
Soor. In the Franco-Prussian wal
he was with the Second Guards Land
wehr regiment and in 1871 was made
first lieutenant.
From 1872 for five years he served
as adjutant, and in 1877 he was made
a captain and transferred to the gen
eral staff. For one year 1884, he
commanded a company in the 96th
regiment, and he then returned to the
general staff as major.
In 1890, a lieutenant colonel, he
was chief Of the general staff OF the
Guards Corps, and in 1894, receiving
his coloncy the previous year, oh.
tanned command Of the Fourth
Guards regiment.
In 1897 he was made major rem.
eral with direction of the administra.
ton Of Justice in the army, and In
1900 he became lieutenant general
and III next year received command
OF Second Guards division.
He was quartermaster general on
the general staff in 1902 and the next
year received command of the Third
Army Corps. receiving the rank OF
general of infantry in 1904. Just
prior to the beginning Of the present
war he served Is inspector general OF
h Third inspection district, that OF
Hanover.