EICHHORN, HERMANN VON German field-marshal, was born at Breslau on Feb. 13, 1848. He took part as a young officer, in the campaigns of 1866 and 1870-71. In 1913 he was appointed inspector-general of the VII. Army in spection at Saarbrucken. At the outbreak of the World War he was incapacitated by an accident, but took part in the battle of Soissons in Jan. 1915. In that month he was appointed to the command of the X. Army, which fought in the battle of the Masurian lakes in February. In August he took Kovno and after wards the fortresses of Grodno and Olita, and continued his victorious advance into Russia. From 1916 to 1918 Eichhorn was in command of the army group known by his name in Cour land. In Dec. 1917 he was raised to the rank of general field marshal and sent to the Ukraine as chief-in-command of the German troops on the eastern front. He was assassinated at Kiev on July 3o, 1918.