(1855-02-17)17 February 1855 Stolp, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (now Słupsk, Poland)
Died
22 August 1929(1929-08-22) (aged 74) Munich, Bavaria, Weimar Republic
Buried
Darmstadt, Germany
Allegiance
German Empire Ottoman Empire
Service/branch
Imperial German Army Ottoman Army
Years of service
1874–1918
Rank
General of the Cavalry (Germany) Field Marshal (Ottoman Empire)
Unit
Grossherzoglich-Hessisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 115
Dragoner-Regiment Nr. 23
Commands held
I. Armee-Korps
22nd Division
Husaren-Regiment Nr. 6
Fifth Army (Ottoman Empire)
Yildirim Army Group (Ottoman Empire)
Battles/wars
World War I
Gallipoli Campaign
Sinai and Palestine Campaign
Awards
Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves
Spouse(s)
Amelie Lily Karoline Gabriele von Sanders (1858–1906)
Elisabeth Alberti
Generalleutnant Otto Liman von Sanders at the Ottoneum in Kassel circa 1913Hans-Joachim Buddecke, Otto Liman von Sanders, and Oswald Boelcke in Turkey, 1916
Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders (German:[ˈɔtoːˈliːmanfɔnˈzandɐs]; 17 February 1855 – 22 August 1929) was an Imperial German Army general who served as a military adviser to the Ottoman Army during the First World War. In 1918 he commanded an Ottoman army during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.[1] On the whole Sanders provided only limited help to the Ottoman forces.[2]
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^Trumpener, Ulrich (1966). "Liman von Sanders and the German-Ottoman Alliance". Journal of Contemporary History. 1 (4): 179–192. doi:10.1177/002200946600100407. JSTOR 259896. S2CID 154099517.
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