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Rudiger Goltz

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GOLTZ, RUDIGER, COUNT VON DER (1865-1930), German lieutenant-general, was born at Zullichau on June 28, 1864. He commanded a division of the Landwehr at the battle of the Ma surian Lakes in Feb. 1915. In the spring of 1918 he led the Baltic Division into Finland and was appointed chief-in-command in the Baltic countries in Nov. 1918. In 1919 he was leading a volun teer army professedly against the Bolshevists, but he was sus pected of scheming to use his Baltic volunteers as an instrument for the royalist and reactionary movement and his recall was demanded. Sections of these troops (Das Baltikum) actually took part in the military occupation of Berlin which attended the Kapp coup in March 192o, and were with difficulty disbanded. He then took part in the youth movement, and in 1924 became president of the United Patriotic Associations. Count von der Goltz wrote Meine Sendung in Finnland and im Baltikum (192o).

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