Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German general
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Place of Birth: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
About Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein
- Friedrich Siegmund Georg Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (also German: Kreß; 24 April 1870 – 16 October 1948) was a German general from Nuremberg.
- He was a member of the group of German officers who assisted in the direction of the Ottoman Army during World War I.
- Kress von Kressenstein was part of the military mission of Otto Liman von Sanders to the Ottoman Empire, which arrived shortly before World War I broke out.
- He was also the main leader for the Ottoman Desert Command Force (DCF). Kress came from a patrician family in Nuremberg.
- His father, Georg Kress von Kressenstein (1840–1911), was a high court judge.
- Kress von Kressenstein joined the Bavarian army as an ensign in the artillery in 1888.
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