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Günther Emanuel Graf von
Kirchbach
(09.08.1850 - 06.11.1925)
place of birth: Erfurt (Thuringian
Saxony)
Königreich
Preußen: OBH,
Generaloberst
Graf von Kirchbach served as an Imperial
German Generaloberst who began military career in 1868 as an
infantry officer. Participating in the Franco-Prussian War
of 1870-71 as a second lieutenant, by 1907 he had attained the rank of
General der Infanterie and was in command of the V. Army Corps in the
Duchy of Posen. In 1911, he was appointed to preside over the Imperial
Military Tribunal (Reichsmilitärgericht).
At war's outbreak, von Kirchbach was
under Bülow's
Second Army on the Western Front as commander of the X. Reserve Corps
but was wounded early on and spent the next two years on convalescence
leave. In the fall of 1916 he served on the Eastern Front as commander
of a Landwehrkorps and of Army
Detachment "D". He remained in the East for the rest of the
war as commander of the Eighth Army and Army Group Kiev. He died in
1925 in Bad Blankenburg, Thuringia. His father, General Hugo Graf von
Kirchbach, was a Pour le Merite recipient who
commanded the Prussian Fifth Army Corps during the Franco-Prussian War
of 1870-71.
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