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(16.01.1856 - 22.05.1940) place of birth: Mainz (Hesse) Königreich Bayern: Generalstabschef, KG, General der Infanterie Bavarian count and General der Infanterie Oskar von Xylander commanded I. Bavarian Corps under Rupprecht's Sixth Army throughout almost the entirety of the Great War. Oskar was actually born in Hessia, the son of Captain Otto Ritter und Edler von Xylander and his spouse Rosalia née Wagenseil. He started his military career with the 1st Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment in Munich and while there, met and married Wilhelmine Jung in November of 1878. The Xylander family had three sons and three daughters. Oskar von Xylander spent a great deal of his pre-War military service with 1st Bavarian Regiment and was ultimately selected to command it in 1904. In 1908, he replaced General Karl Ritter von Fasbender as Chief of the Bavarian General Staff. When Imperial German troops mobilized in the summer of 1914, General von Xylander was in command of I. Bavarian Corps, which was attached to the Sixth Field Army under the Bavarian Crown Prince. His troops were engaged early on in the War of the Frontiers in the Lorraine region and remained on the Western Front for the duration of the War. Bavaria's I. Armeekorps also took part in the bloodbath at Verdun in the summer of 1916, and the Kaiser recognized von Xylander for his leadership with the Pour le Merite. He was additionally awarded the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross) of Bavaria's highest military order - the Militär-Max-Joseph-Orden. Xylander was officially presented with the decoration on 14.11.1916. General der Infanterie Oskar von Xylander died on 22 May 1940 in Munich.
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