ALBERT, DUKE OF WURTTEMBERG 939), German general, the son of Duke Philip of Wurttemberg, was born in Vienna on Dec. 23, 1865. As the king and queen of Wurt temberg had no male heir, he was the heir presumptive to the Wurttemberg throne. He passed through the different grades of a military career and was appointed general in command of the XI. Army Corps at Cassel in 1906, and in 1 gob was entrusted with the command of the Wurttemberg Army Corps. In 1913 he was advanced to the rank of generaloberst (colonel-general, immedi ately below field-marshal) and was appointed inspector-general of the VI. Army inspection. At the outbreak of the World War he took over the leadership of the IV. Army on the western front, was advanced to the rank of field-marshal-general in 1916 and ap pointed chief-in-command of the group of armies on the front in Alsace-Lorraine, which fought under his leadership until the end of the war. Since then he has lived as a private citizen on his Wurt temberg estates. He married in 1893 the late Archduchess Mar garete Sophie of Austria (d. 1902), the sister of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who was assassinated at Sarajevo.