Anatol August Friedrich Albrecht Graf von Bredow
(07.01.1859 - 22.03.1941)
place of birth:  Potsdam, Brandenburg
Königreich Preußen:  KG,  General der Kavallerie  ch.


Prussian count and cavalry officer Anatol von Bredow oversaw during the early stages of World War One those divisional troops charged with defending Fortress Posen on the Eastern Front. He later commanded a Landwehr division and spent the last year of the War serving as a corps commander. 

Graf von Bredow came from a long line of Prussian military nobility. After schooling with the Kadettenkorps, he joined a cavalry regiment in 1877 and functioned primarily as a staff officer. He additionally spent a few years in London with the German military attaché staff. Von Bredow was eventually selected to command a cavalry brigade in Metz and later retired from active duty at the rank of Generalmajor. 

German mobilization in the summer of 1914 had saw Bredow reactivated as a acting commander at 8. brigade headquarters, soon thereafter transferred to Fortress Posen to command the Hauptreserve there. His  troops marched into Poland as part of Korps-Frommel and distinguished themselves in fighting their Russian counterparts. General von Bredow's eldest son served as a battery commander and was killed in action during the Somme Offensive. The youngest of his three sons flew for Germany's field air service and was killed over the skies of Baranowitschi. Graf von Bredow received the brevet rank of General der Kavallerie (charakter) on 27 August 1939 for Tannenberg Remembrance Day.

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