BERNHARDI, FRIEDRICH VON


Meaning of BERNHARDI, FRIEDRICH VON in English

born 1849, Estonia, Russian Empire

died 1930

German soldier and military writer.

He fought in the Franco-Prussian War and became commander of the Seventh Army corps in 1909. In 1911 he published Germany and the Next War , arguing that Germany had a right and responsibility to wage war to gain the power it deserved. The Allies later considered his book a contributing cause of World War I, in which Bernhardi served as a corps commander.

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