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(11.10.1868 - 30.03.1933) place of birth: Stettin, Preußen (Prussia) Königreich Sachsen: AK-Stabschef, Bde-Kdr, Oberst Prussian staff officer Werner von Frankenberg was an Army colonel who during the Great War was engaged in various military ventures. He was born into the Silesian Uradel (ancient noble) house of Frankenberg, the son of Generalleutnant Egbert von Frankenberg und Proschlitz. Werner spent a good deal of his pre-War career doing staff work from regiment up to corps level. He likewise traveled a great deal, spending training time in Russia and deploying to China with the Ostasiatisches Expeditionskorps. Oberstleutnant von Frankenberg was likewise deployed with the German Mission in Turkey when war broke out in August 1914. He was later sent to the Western Front in 1916 to function as Chief of Staff at Hans von Kirchbach's Saxon XII. Reservekorps headquarters. For his exemplary performance during the 1916 Battle of the Somme, he was awarded the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross) of Saxony's highest military order - the Militär-St-Heinrich-Orden. After briefly in command of a grenadier regiment on the Romanian Front, Oberst von Frankenberg was then charged with raising and commanding the German expeditionary force known as the Asienkorps. These troops were deployed in support of the Ottoman war effort. They were initially intended to assist in the recapture of Baghdad but ended up fighting in defense of the Palestine Front. Upon being replaced by Oberst Gustav von Oppen, Frankenberg returned in August 1918 to the Western Front where he headed up a reserve infantry brigade until War's end. He remained on active duty and was eventually promoted to Generalmajor in 1920.
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