Otto
Hermann von Lossow
(15.01.1868 - 25.11.1938)
place of birth: Hof an der Saale,
Oberfranken (Bavaria)
Königreich
Bayern: AK-Stabschef,
Mil-Bevollm, Generalmajor
Otto von Lossow grew up in the
northern Bavarian household of Landrat Oskar
von Lossow. He enlisted in the Bavarian Army in 1886, serving with the
Königliche Infanterie-Leib-Regiment in Munich and attended the Military
Academy there as well. Otto worked at various assignments, receiving
training as a general staff officer. He participated in a relief
expedition with the German Empire in China during the Boxer
Rebellion in 1900. Beginning in 1911, Lossow served in Turkey
with the Turkish General Staff, also participating in the Balkan
Wars.
The Great War saw him spending the first year
on the Western Front as von
Fasbender's Chief of Staff in the II. Bavarian Reserve Corps, attached
to Sixth Army. Thereafter transferring to Istanbul, he worked with the
Germany's Turkish allies as military attache. He thus had a small role
in the planning of the ongoing defense of Gallipoli
during the Allied landings there. It was to no avail that von Lossow
vehemently protested the starving out of the Armenian people carried
out by the Young Turks' regime.
Following the War, Generalmajor von Lossow
was assigned as commandant of the Infantry School in Munich. As part of
the transitional Reichswehr forces in post-War
Germany, he later became commander of Wehrkreis VII, the region which
covered Bavaria. In 1923, von Lossow played a fairly prominent role in
the Beer Hall Putsch along with Gustav Ritter von
Kahr and Hans Ritter von Seisser. As a result, Reichswehr
commander von Seeckt replaced him with Friedrich Kress von
Kressenstein. He thereafter retired to live in Turkey, but died back in
Munich in November 1938.
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Generalmajor |
12.04.1916 |
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China-Denkmünze |
Ostasiatisches Expeditionskorps 1900-01 |
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