Kurt Oskar von Sperling
(18.02.1850 - 31.08.1914)
place of birth:  Breslau, Niederschlesien
Königreich Preußen:  Stellv KG,  General der Infanterie ch. z.D.


General von Sperling served at the beginning of the Great War as acting commander of Prussia's VI. Armee-Korps. Sperling was the eldest son of Prussian Generalmajor Oskar von Sperling (1824-99.) Kurt's sister Gertrud was the future wife of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg. Young Kurt was commissioned as a Sekonde-Lieutenant in 1866 and was assigned to 3. Garde-Grenadier-Regiment in Breslau. He and his comrades soon went into battle during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 where he saw action at St Privat and the Siege of Paris. Sperling was wounded in the leg and upper chest area and late received the Iron Cross 2nd Class.

Back in peacetime Germany, Sperling completed the three-year War Academy course and was detached for duty at Great General Staff headquarters. Thereafter, he served his way up through commands at the regiment, brigade, and division levels. As a Generalleutnant, he was assigned in 1907 as the Prussian Military Governor of Cologne. Sperling received in 1908 an honorary promotion to General der Infanterie (charakter) and retired from active duty in April 1904. At the August 1914 outbreak of the Great War, von Sperling was reactivated to function as General von Pritzelwitz's acting commander at VI. Armee-Korps headquarters in Breslau, before he unexpectedly died about one month later.

	General der Infanterie	105.03.1908  (charakter)
	Eisernes Kreuz II	Deutsch-Französischer Krieg  1870–1871