Henri Niessel
| Henri Niessel |
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| Born |
(1866-10-24)24 October 1866 |
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| Died |
26 December 1955(1955-12-26) (aged 89) |
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| Allegiance |
 France |
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| Rank |
Lieutenant-General |
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| Battles/wars |
World War I |
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| Other work |
Translator of von Clausewitz |
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Henri Albert Niessel (24 October 1866 – 26 December 1955) was a French general.
In 1917 he led the French Military Mission in Russia.[1]
Niessel oversaw the withhdrawal of German Freikorps troops who had entered Latvia and Lithuania as part of Pavel Bermondt-Avalov's West Russian Volunteer Army.[2]
Publications
- Notes sur la Prusse dans sa grande catastrophe, 1806, translated from the German, original by Carl von Clausewitz, R. Chapelot, Paris, 1903
- D. A. T : Défense aérienne du territoire (in collaboration with Rémy Alphonse Chabord and G. de Guilhermy), Éditions cosmopolites, Paris, 1934, 250 p.
- L'évacuation des pays baltiques par les Allemands : contribution à l'étude de la mentalité allemande, Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris, Limoges, Nancy, 1935, 272 p.
- Le triomphe des Bolchéviks et la paix de Brest-Litovsk : Souvenirs 1917-1918, Plon, 1940, 381 p.
References
- ↑ Banerji A. (2008) Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work New Dehli: Social Science Press
- ↑ Eidintas, Alfonsas; Vytautas Žalys; Alfred Erich Senn (September 1999). Ed. Edvardas Tuskenis, ed. Lithuania in European Politics: The Years of the First Republic, 1918-1940 (Paperback ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 0-312-22458-3.