Count Georg von Kanitz was a military attaché to the Embassy of the German Empire in Tehran during World War I.
His duties included rallying pro-German units for the war in the Middle East.
Count von Kanitz was supposedly heading a force at the town of Kangavar in 1916 against Russian troops under general Nikolai Baratov where he was killed.
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