Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger Graf [1 ] vonderGoltz (8 December 1865 – 4 November 1946) was a German army general during the First World War. [2 ] [3 ] He commanded the Baltic Sea Division, which successfully intervened in the Finnish…
Rüdiger, count vonderGoltz was a German army officer who, at the end of World War I, tried unsuccessfully to build a German-controlled Baltikum in Latvia, in order to prevent domination of that country by Soviet Russia.
The House vonderGoltz is an old and influential German noble family whose members occupied many important political and military positions in the Kingdom of Prussia and later in the German Empire.
He lived during the war first in his house in Berlin and later in the farmhouse of his son, Rüdiger Joachim Graf v.d. Goltz (Rechtsanwalt), in Kinsegg, Allgäu, Germany.