Hermann von Eichhorn

✶February 13, 1848

†July 30, 1918

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Hermann Emil Gottfried von Eichhorn was a Prussian officer, later Generalfeldmarschall during World War I. He was a recipient of Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves, one of the highest orders of merit in the Kingdom of Prussia and, subsequently, Imperial Germany. While serving as the military governor of Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, Eichhorn was assassinated by a Russian socialist.

German general (1848-1918)

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