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Hans Hartwig Von BeselerHans Hartwig von Beseler was born in 1850, he served in the Prussian army in 1870, and had a successful military career until his retirement in 1910. He became commander of the third reserve corps in the German army when World War I broke out. In 1915 he was military Governor of German-occupied Poland and served as such until the end of World War I. He died in 1921. In 1914 Beseler was brought out of retirement and was given command of the 3rd Reserve Corps in the German First Army led by Generaloberst Alexander von Kluck. The German Army took Brussels on August 20, 1914, and the German command considered the Belgian Army defeated. The main force of the German armies marched towards France, leaving the 3rd Reserve Corps behind. Beseler was given orders to take possession of the city of Antwerp on September 9. The Siege of Antwerp ended on October 10, 1914, when the mayor of Antwerp Jan De Vos surrendered the city. Beseler followed the Belgian army and was halted in the Battle of the Yser. In the Spring of 1915 Beseler was sent to the Eastern Front with Gallwitz's 9th Army. In August he was nominated the military governor of the Polish lands occupied by the Central Powers. After the Act of November 5th of 1916 Beseler became the General Governor of the Kingdom of Poland and the titular commander of the so-called Polnische Wehrmacht. After the country declared independence on November 11, 1918, he returned to Germany. Beseler, Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Hans Hartwig von
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