Background
Lyncker was born in Spandau, Prussia into a military family, with his father, his father-in-law and two brothers being officers.
Lyncker was born in Spandau, Prussia into a military family, with his father, his father-in-law and two brothers being officers.
After the sudden death of the Chief of the Prussian Military Cabinet, General Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler, von Lyncker was on 17 November 1908 appointed to the post. He was responsible for personnel matters of the Prussian army and during First World War he was one of the closest aides to Kaiser Wilhelm World War II He was present at the famous German Imperial War Council of 8 December 1912. He has been evaluated as "politically innocent, intellectually mediocre, with subservient devotion to Wilhelm World War II"
On the other hand, as the First World War progressed and the Kaiser withdrew into an atmosphere of "fear of the world and flight from reality", he worked with Georg Alexander von Müller, Chief of the German Imperial Naval Cabinet, at great lengths to persuade him to spend more time on the business of the government in Berlin.
By 10 August 1914 he was considering replacing Helmuth von Moltke with Erich von Falkenhayn as Chief of the German General Staff.
After the failure of the Battle of the Marne it was his duty to convince von Moltke to leave. Like Falkenhayn, he wanted a compromise peace with tsarist Russia and a substantial victory over Britain and France.
He died in Demnitz, Germany. Ranks
1870: Fahnenjunker
1895-1898: Leutnant.
Oberst
1901: Generalmajor
1905: Generalleutnant
1909: General der Infanterie.