Andreas Heinrich Eugen Ritter von Zoellner
(18.08.1866 - 19.02.1945)
place of birth:  Regensburg, Bayern  (Bavaria)
Königreich Bayern:  Div-Kdr,  Generalmajor


Royal Bavarian general Eugen von Zoellner commanded Bavaria's 49th Reserve Division and 2. Infantry Division during the Great War. Immediately following Armistice, Generalmajor von Zoellner was tasked with commanding 6th Division headquartered in Regensburg until June 1919. He then commanded III. Bavarian Army Corps in Nürnberg for about three months. General von Zoellner spent his retirement years in Berlin, where in 1945 he was killed during a allied bomb raid.

 
 
Generalmajor  10.09.1914
 
 
 

  
 
Curriculum Vitae
   
08.04.1886 Sekonde-Lieutenant
06.11.1894 Premier-Lieutenant
01.10.1894 Bayerische Kriegsakademie - München  (graduated Sept 1897)
21.03.1900 Hauptmann
08.03.1907 Major
25.07.1910 Oberstleutnant
00.00.0000 Bayerischer Generalstab - München  (Chief Central Department)
23.01.1913 Oberst
00.00.0000 Großer Generalstab - Berlin  (attached to Great General Staff Headquarters)
00.00.0000 Reichsmilitärgericht - Berlin  (Bavarian Senate representative on Imperial Military Court)
   
Great War
   
02.08.1914 Bayerischer Generalstab - München  (Chief Central Department)
10.09.1914 Generalmajor
02.10.1916 49. Reserve-Division  (replaced Friedrich von Bernhardi) 
08.02.1917 2. Königlich Bayerische Infanterie-Division  (replaced Bernhard von Hartz)
00.00.1917 in den persönlichen Adelstand erhoben  (elevated into the Bavarian nobility, VOBK)
20.12.1918 6. Königlich Bayerische Infanterie-Division - Regensburg  (peacetime Cdr)
   
   
 

16.05.1914
 

 

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