title: Victor Sellheim
Confederate Quartermaster-General's Department
Jesse Cross
Paul J. Vanderploog
Erich Ludendorff
Quartermaster General of the United States Army
Ronald Kirklin
George Forestier-Walker
Montgomery C. Meigs
Operation Michael
sentences: Major General Victor Sellheim {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (4 May 1866 – 25 January 1928) was an Australian military officer during the Second Boer War and World War I.
 Sellheim fought in the Second Boer War with Chauvel's Mounted Infantry and fought in the Battle of Modder River.
 For his actions during the war, Sellheim became a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
 After serving in a variety of staff positions, he became Quartermaster general of the Australian Military Forces in 1912 and two years later was Adjutant general.
 Between 1914 and 1916 he oversaw the Australian Imperial Force base at Cairo.
 He became the Adjutant general again.
 After the end of World War I, Sellheim became Quartermaster general in 1920 but resigned in 1927 to become Administrator of Norfolk Island, where he died on heart failure in 1928.
The Confederate Congress created the position of Quartermaster-General on 26 Feb 1861 and the Secretary of War was allowed one Colonel and six Majors to serve as Quartermasters.
 The first Quartermaster General was Col. Abraham C. Myers; his appointment would appear to have been a foregone conclusion as he was signing himself as Acting Quartermaster General on 2 January 1861.
Brigadier General Jesse R. Cross, USA was the 50th Quartermaster General of the United States Army and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia.
Major General Paul J. Vanderploog, USA (born March 22, 1941) is a retired American Quartermaster officer who served as the 41st Quartermaster General of the United States Army from 1989 to 1991.
 He was inducted into the U.S. Army Quartermaster Foundation's Hall of Fame in 2010.
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, the victor of the Battle of Liège and the Battle of Tannenberg.
 From August 1916, his appointment as Quartermaster general ("Erster Generalquartiermeister") made him the leader (along with Paul von Hindenburg) of the German war efforts during World War I until his resignation in October 1918, just before the end of hostilities.
The Quartermaster General of the United States Army is a general officer who is responsible for the Quartermaster Corps, the Quartermaster branch of the U.S. Army.
 The Quartermaster General does not command Quartermaster units, but is primarily focused on training, doctrine and professional development of Quartermaster soldiers.
 The Quartermaster General also serves as the Commanding General, U.S. Army Quartermaster Center and School, Fort Lee, Virginia and the traditional Quartermaster Corps.
 The office of the Quartermaster General was established by resolution of the Continental Congress on 16 June 1775, but the position was not filled until 14 August 1775.
 Perhaps the most famous Quartermaster General was Nathanael Greene, who was the third Quartermaster General, serving from March 1778 to August 1780.
 The first Quartermaster General to serve in the U.S. Army was Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania.
Brigadier General Ronald Kirklin is a serving general officer in the United States Army.
 Kirklin was the 53rd Quartermaster General and Commandant of the Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia from 2014 to 2016.
Born the son of Major-General George Edmund Lushington Walker, Forestier-Walker was educated at Rugby School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
 He was commissioned in 1884 and served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General during the Second Boer War.
 He became Chief Staff Officer of the Somaliland Field Force in 1902, Assistant Quartermaster General for Intelligence for the Somaliland Field Force in 1903 and saw action again during the East Africa Campaign before becoming Assistant Quartermaster General at Southern Command in 1910.
 He went on to be brigadier-general on the General Staff of Irish Command in 1912.
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs ( ; May 3, 1816 – January 2, 1892) was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War.
 Despite his Southern birth, Meigs strongly opposed secession and remained loyal to the Union; his record as Quartermaster General was regarded as outstanding, both in effectiveness and in ethical probity, and Secretary of State William H. Seward viewed it as a key factor in Union victory.
Operation "Michael" was a major German military offensive during the First World War that began the Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918.
 It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France.
 Its goal was to break through the Allied (Entente) lines and advance in a north-westerly direction to seize the Channel ports, which supplied the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and to drive the BEF into the sea.
 Two days later General Ludendorff, the Chief of the German General Staff, changed his plan and pushed for an offensive due west, along the whole of the British front north of the River Somme.
 This was designed to separate the French and British Armies and crush the British forces by pushing them into the sea.
 The offensive ended at Villers-Bretonneux, to the east of the Allied communications centre at Amiens, where the Allies managed to halt the German advance; the German Armies had suffered many casualties and were unable to maintain supplies to the advancing troops.

Question: Question: What Quartermaster General was involved in Operation Michael? 

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 Major General Victor Sellheim {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (4 May 1866 – 25 January 1928) was an Australian military officer during the Second Boer War and World War I.
 Sellheim fought in the Second Boer War with Chauvel's Mounted Infantry and fought in the Battle of Modder River.
 For his actions during the war, Sellheim became a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
 After serving in a variety of staff positions, he became Quartermaster general of the Australian Military Forces in 1912 and two years later was Adjutant general.
 Between 1914 and 1916 he oversaw the Australian Imperial Force base at Cairo.
 He became the Adjutant general again.
 After the end of World War I, Sellheim became Quartermaster general in 1920 but resigned in 1927 to become Administrator of Norfolk Island, where he died on heart failure in 1928. 

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 The Confederate Congress created the position of Quartermaster-General on 26 Feb 1861 and the Secretary of War was allowed one Colonel and six Majors to serve as Quartermasters.
 The first Quartermaster General was Col. Abraham C. Myers; his appointment would appear to have been a foregone conclusion as he was signing himself as Acting Quartermaster General on 2 January 1861. 

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 Brigadier General Jesse R. Cross, USA was the 50th Quartermaster General of the United States Army and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia. 

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 Major General Paul J. Vanderploog, USA (born March 22, 1941) is a retired American Quartermaster officer who served as the 41st Quartermaster General of the United States Army from 1989 to 1991.
 He was inducted into the U.S. Army Quartermaster Foundation's Hall of Fame in 2010. 

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 Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, the victor of the Battle of Liège and the Battle of Tannenberg.
 From August 1916, his appointment as Quartermaster general ("Erster Generalquartiermeister") made him the leader (along with Paul von Hindenburg) of the German war efforts during World War I until his resignation in October 1918, just before the end of hostilities. 

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 Brigadier General Ronald Kirklin is a serving general officer in the United States Army.
 Kirklin was the 53rd Quartermaster General and Commandant of the Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia from 2014 to 2016. 

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 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs ( ; May 3, 1816 – January 2, 1892) was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War.
 Despite his Southern birth, Meigs strongly opposed secession and remained loyal to the Union; his record as Quartermaster General was regarded as outstanding, both in effectiveness and in ethical probity, and Secretary of State William H. Seward viewed it as a key factor in Union victory. 

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 Operation "Michael" was a major German military offensive during the First World War that began the Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918.
 It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France.
 Its goal was to break through the Allied (Entente) lines and advance in a north-westerly direction to seize the Channel ports, which supplied the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and to drive the BEF into the sea.
 Two days later General Ludendorff, the Chief of the German General Staff, changed his plan and pushed for an offensive due west, along the whole of the British front north of the River Somme.
 This was designed to separate the French and British Armies and crush the British forces by pushing them into the sea.
 The offensive ended at Villers-Bretonneux, to the east of the Allied communications centre at Amiens, where the Allies managed to halt the German advance; the German Armies had suffered many casualties and were unable to maintain supplies to the advancing troops. 

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Answer: Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff