biography
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Waldersee, Alfred, Graf von
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pronunciation:
[valdersay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1832–1904)
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| biography:
| Prussian field marshal, born in Potsdam, EC Germany. He succeeded von Moltke as chief-of-staff (1889–91). As a conservative advocate of a German preventive war against Russia, he contributed towards the fall of Otto von Bismarck. He achieved greater independence for the armed forces and the general staff vis-à-vis the government and the war ministry. In 1900 he was appointed supreme commander of the intervention troops in the Boxer Rebellion, which had already been quashed when he arrived in China. |
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