BESELER, HANS VON (1850-1921), Prussian general and governor of Poland during the German occupation, was born on April 27, 185o, at Greifswald, and entered the army. He was on the retired list at the outbreak of the World War, but was recalled. He conducted the siege of Antwerp, which he occupied on Oct. 9, 1914. In he was employed on the eastern front, where he took Novogeorgievsk on Aug. 19. From Aug. 27, 1915, to Nov. 1918 he was German governor-general of Poland at Warsaw. He endeavoured, with diminishing success, to organize a form of Polish national government and representation under German auspices and to form a Polish army under German con trol, until the Armistice put an end to his schemes. He died near Potsdam on Dec. 22, 1921.