Lieutenant-General Friedrich Wilhelm Magnus Heinrich Walter von Eberhardt (7 January 1862 in
Berlin – 7 January 1944 in
Wernigerode),[1] generally known as Walter von Eberhardt, was a German military commander during
World War I and the
Lithuanian–Soviet War of 1918–19. He was the son of later Prussian
Major general Heinrich von Eberhardt (1821–1899). His older brothers also made career in the Prussian army.
Magnus (1855–1939) raised till
General of Infantry, Gaspard von Eberhardt (1858–1928) to
Lieutenant general.[2]
Notably, he was the first inspector of the flying troops (
Idflieg) from 1913 to 1914. In 1930 Unserere
Luftstreitkräfte 1914–1918 was published under the editorship of von Eberhardt.[3]
Eberhardt, Walter (Hrsg.): Unsere Luftstreitkräfte 1914–18. Ein Denkmal deutschen Heldentums. Vaterländischer Verlag C.A. Weller, Berlin, 1930
Sullivan, Charles L.: The 1919 German Campaign in the Baltic: The Final Phase, in: Vytas Stanley Vardys & Romuald J. Misiunas (Hg.): The Baltic States in Peace and War, 1917–1945. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1978,
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