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Robert August
Valentin Albert Reinhold von Massow
(26.03.1839 - 16.12.1927)
place of birth: Gumbin, Pommern (Globino, Poland)
Königreich
Preußen: KG,
General der Cavallerie
Robert von Massow was a Prussian cavalry officer who served as a
corps-level commander in the latter part of the 19th century. From 1898 through
1903, General von Massow was the commander of IX. Armee-Korps in
Hamburg-Altona. In the years prior to the Great War, he further served as president
of the Imperial Military Tribunal (Reichsmilitärgericht)
in Charlottenburg. In 1905, he was decorated with Prussia's highest order of
chivalry, the Schwarzer Adler-Orden (Order of the Black Eagle.)Massow retired from active duty in 1906 in protest of the
Kaiser having interfered in his courtroom verdicts. His son Ewald von Massow was
an SS-Gruppenführer during the Second World War.
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