Background
Goltz was born on August 12, 1843 in Adlig Bielkenfeld, East Prussia (later renamed Goltzhausen; now Ivanovka, in Polessky District, Kaliningrad Oblast), to a noble family.
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Goltz was born on August 12, 1843 in Adlig Bielkenfeld, East Prussia (later renamed Goltzhausen; now Ivanovka, in Polessky District, Kaliningrad Oblast), to a noble family.
A soldier from 1861, Goltz taught military history at the military academy in Berlin (1878–83) and gained a reputation as one of Germany’s major theorists of warfare. Sent to Turkey in June 1883, he modernized its army so effectively that, after his return to Germany, Turkey was winning the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 decisively until the major European powers intervened to stop the conflict.
He attained the rank of field marshal in 1911.
In August 1914, during World War I, Baron von der Goltz was made governor general of occupied Belgium.
In November 1914 he became commander of the first Turkish army defending Gallipoli (Gelibolu).
In October 1915 he commanded the sixth Turkish army in southern Iraq.
Among Goltz’s military writings is his classic Das Volk in Waffen (1883; The Nation in Arms).
(Originally published in 1887. This volume from the Cornel...)