Hermann Emil Gottfried von Eichhorn was a Prussian officer, later Generalfeldmarschall during World War I. He was a recipient of Pour le Mrite with Oak Leaves.
Eichhorn was born in Breslau in the Province of Silesia. A veteran of the AustroPrussian War and the FrancoPrussian War, he had risen through the ranks of the Prussian Army, being appointed chief of the staff of the VI Army Corps at Breslau in 1897, commanding the 9th Division from 1901 to 1904 and the XVIII Army Corps from 1904 to 1912. In 1912 he took command of the 7th Army Inspection, the peacetime headquarters for the Imperial German XVI, XVIII, and XXI Army Corps.
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