Felix Graf von Bothmer

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Felix Graf von Bothmer (10 December 1852) – 18 March 1937) was a German general of the Brusilov offensive. His father was army general and belongs to the german nobility. In 1871 Bothmer joined the Bavarian Army. He spent the next forty years serving in the Bavarian War Ministry or on the Bavarian General Staff, with three years in Berlin with the General Staff. During this time he rose through the ranks, reaching general of infantry in 1910.

[edit] In World War I and later life

On 30 November 1914 he was appointed to command the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division at Ypres. On 22 March 1915 he was moved to command Corps Bothmer, a unit raised to help defend the passes of the Carpathian Mountains against Russian attacks that directly threatened Hungary. He’s concored the Zwinin in April 1915 and was thus in the right place to take part in the great German advance after the breakthrough at Gorlice-Tarnow in May 1915. His units to stand firm against the Brusilov Offensive of June 1916. In 1917 he was appointed to command the 19th Army in Lorraine. He remained there until 8 November 1918, while to his north the German front crumbled. Bothmer retired from the army later in November, surviving until 1937.