Eugen Ferdinand Gottlieb von Dorrer
(18.11.1857 - 02.04.1916) - kia
place of birth:  Roßfeld, Oberamt Crailsheim
Königreich Württemberg:  Div-Kdr,  Generalleutnant z.D. (Art)


Exzellenz Eugen von Dorrer served as a division commander during the Great War. He began his military career in 1875 as a Royal Württemberg artillery officer in Ludwigsburg. As an Oberstleutnant in 1903, and with two tours of duty at Prussian Great General Staff Headquarters under his Belt, Dorrer was selected to replace Otto von Marchtaler as Württemberg's Military Attaché in Berlin. Although he remained in this assignment over the following eight years until 1911, he was additionally selected in 1907 as an aide-de-camp (and later General à la suite) in His Majesty King Wilhelm II.'s court. In 1913, Exzellenz von Dorrer was put in command of the Prussian 11. Infanterie-Division, although he soon retired from active duty.

With Germany mobilizing for the War in August 1914, Generalleutnant z.D. von Dorrer was soon recalled and sent to command the newly-formed 44. Reserve-Infanterie-Division. His troops marched into Western Flanders, where they saw action from October 1914 until June 1915. Von Dorrer and his reservists were then sent to the Eastern Front and were involved in numerous engagements, including battles in Lemberg and Brest-Litovsk. The division returned to the Western Front in February 1916, this time to Verdun, France to fight under General von Gallwitz. Just as the 9-month battle was getting underway, von Dorrer and his staff came under attack during a reconnaissance of the battle front. He was severely wounded and transported back to the German field hospital at Brieulles, where the general died two days later.

	Generalleutnant	04.02.1913