Prit Buttar - Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915 (General Military)

DEDICATION

To Amit, a tireless if sometimes baffled helper.

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

Arz, Arthur commander of VI Corps

Berchtold, Leopold von foreign minister

Bhm-Ermolli, Eduard Freiherr von commander of Third Army Boroevi, Svetozar commander of Third Army, replaced by Puhallo, later commander of Fifth Army Burin von Rajecz, Stephan foreign minister

Conrad von Htzendorf, Franz Xaver Josef chief of general staff Dankl, Viktor commander of First Army, replaced by Kirchbach, commander of k.u.k. forces in Tyrol May 1915

Frederick, Archduke commander-in-chief k.u.k. Army Joseph Ferdinand, Archduke commander of Fourth Army Kirchbach, Karl Freiherr von commander of I Corps, briefly commander of First Army, May 1915

Kvesz, Hermann von commander of Third Army September 1915

Krautwald, Josef commander of X Corps April 1915, replaced by Martiny Kitek, Karl commander of XVII Corps

Kusmanek, Hermann von garrison commander, Przemyl Martiny, Hugo commander of X Corps May 1915

Meixner, Hugo commander of X Corps, replaced by Krautwald Pflanzer-Baltin, Karl von commander of eponymous army group, later upgraded to Seventh Army Puhallo, Paul commander of Third Army May 1915, then commander of First Army Roth, Josef commander of XIV Corps

Tersztynszky, Karl commander of eponymous army group, later Third Army, replaced by Kvesz Trollmann, Ignaz commander of XIX Corps BULGARIA

Boyadzhiev, Kliment commander of First Army

Ferdinand tsar of Bulgaria

Radoslavov, Vasil prime minister

Todorov, Georgi commander of Second Army

GERMANY

Below, Otto von commander of Eighth Army, later commander of Army of the Niemen Behr, Karl von commander 119th Infantry Division, commander of eponymous corps June 1915

Beseler, Hans von commander of siege artillery, Novogeorgievsk Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von German chancellor

Bothmer, Felix Graf von commander of eponymous corps, later commander of South Army Cramon, August von liaison officer at AOK

Eichhorn, Hermann von commander of Tenth Army

Emmich, Otto von commander of X Corps

Fabarius, Friedrich commander of 82nd Reserve Infantry Division Falk, Adalbert von commander of 2nd Infantry Division Falkenhayn, Erich von chief of the general staff

Falkenhayn, Eugen von commander of XXII Reserve Corps Gallwitz, Max von commander of Twelfth Army, later commander of Eleventh Army in Serbia Haeften, Hans von adjutant to Moltke the Younger and press officer at Ober Ost

Hell, Emil chief of staff, Tenth Army

Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von commander of Ober Ost

Hoffmann, Max staff officer at Ober Ost

Kosch, Robert commander of X Reserve Corps

Lauenstein, Otto von commander of XXXIX Reserve Corps, commander of eponymous army group April 1915

Leopold, Prince of Bavaria commander of Ninth Army April 1915

Linsingen, Alexander von commander of South Army, replaced by Bothmer, later commander of Army of the Bug Litzmann, Karl commander of XL Reserve Corps

Ludendorff, Erich chief of staff, Ober Ost

Mackensen, August von commander of Ninth Army, replaced by Prince Leopold; commander of Eleventh Army April 1915

Marwitz, Georg von der commander of XXXVIII Reserve Corps, commander of Beskidenkorps March 1915

Morgen, Curt von commander of I Reserve Corps

Plettenberg, Karl von commander of Guards Corps

Scholtz, Friedrich (Fritz) von commander of XX Corps, later also commander of Eighth Army Seeckt, Hans von chief of staff, Eleventh Army

Woyrsch, Remus von commander of eponymous army

Ziethen, Alfred artillery commander, Eleventh Army RUSSIA

Alexeyev, Mikhail Vasiliyevich chief of staff, Southwest Front, later commander of Northwest Front Balanin, Dmitri Vasiliyevich commander of XXVII Corps Bezobrazov, Vladimir Miklailovich commander of Guards Corps, replaced by Olukhov Bonch-Bruyevich, Mikhail Dmitriyevich commander of 176th Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Division Bobrinsky, Georgi Alexandrovich second governor of Lemberg Bobyr, Nikolai Pavlovich commander of Novogeorgievsk garrison Brinsen, Aleksandr Fridrikhovich commander of XXII Corps Brusilov, Alexei Alexeyevich commander of Eighth Army Bulgakov, Pavel Ilyich commander of XX Corps

Churin, Alexei Evgravovich commander of Twelfth Army June 1915

Danilov, Yuri Nikiforovich quartermaster-general

Delvig, Sergei Nikolayevich artillery commander of IX Corps, commandant of Przemyl garrison Dimitriev, Radko commander of Third Army, replaced by Lesh Dragomirov, Vladimir Mikhailovich commander of VIII Corps, later chief of staff, Southwest Front, replaced by Savich Epanchin, Nikolai commander of III Corps, replaced by Zegelov Evert, Alexei commander of Fourth Army, later commander of Western Front Gerngross, Alexander Alexeyevich commander of XXVI Corps Gorbatovsky, Vladimir Nikolayevich commander of XIX Corps, later commander of Thirteenth Army Grigoriev, Vladimir Nikolayevich commander of Kovno garrison Gulevich, Arseny chief of staff, Northwest Front

Gurko, Vasily Iosifovich commander of VI Corps

Ivanov, Nikolai Iudevich commander of Southwest Front Kaledin, Alexei Maximovich commander of XII Corps

Lechitsky, Platon commander of Ninth Army

Lesh, Leonid Vilgelmovich commander of XII Corps, later commander of Third Army Litvinov, Alexander Ivanovich commander of First Army Lomnovsky, Piotr chief of staff, Eighth Army

Myasoyedov, Sergei Nikolayevich intelligence officer Northwest Front, ally of Sukhomlinov Nikolai Nikolayevich, Grand Duke commander-in-chief Nostitz, Grigory Ivanovich chief of staff, Guards Corps Olukhov, Vladimir Apollonovich commander of XXIII Corps, later commander of Guards Corps Plehve, Pavel Adamovich commander of Fifth Army

Polivanov, Alexei Andreyevich minister for war June 1915