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Battles/wars
  
World War I

Rank
  
General officer

Service/branch
  
Prussian Army


Battles and wars
  
World War I

Name
  
Hugo Kathen

Allegiance
  
German Empire

Hugo von Kathen

Born
  
August 27, 1855 Freienwalde, Prussia (
1855-08-27
)

Commands held
  
74th (1st Hannover) Infantry 83rd Infantry Brigade 9th Division 39th Division XXIII Reserve Corps 8th Army

Awards
  
Pour le Merite with Oakleaves

Died
  
April 2, 1932, Wiesbaden, Germany

Hugo Karl Gottlieb von Kathen (27 August 1855 – 2 April 1932) was a German infantry general during World War I.

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Family

Kathen was born in Freienwalde, Farther Pomerania to the Prussian Major Karl von Kathen (1803–1876), a landowner from Langenhaken in Pomerania, and Agnes née Schumann (1825–1895). His family came originally from Stralsund and became Swedish nobility in 1692.

Kathen married Susanne von Dechend (1859–1929), daughter of Reichsbank president Hermann von Dechend (1814–1890), on 27 September 1884 in Berlin.

Kathen died in Wiesbaden, Hesse.

Commands held

  • 2 August - 18 December 1914: military governor of Mainz
  • 19 December 1914 - 30 July 1918: commanding general of the XXIII Reserve Corps
  • 31 July - 11 November 1918: commander-in-chief of the 8th army
  • until February 1919: commander of the German troops in Lithuania and Estonia
  • starting from February 1919: commander of the German troops in Latvia

    • Medals and decoration

  • Pour le Mérite on 28 August 1916; with oak leaves on 27 August 1917

    • References

    Hugo von Kathen Wikipedia
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