Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (December 23, 1865, Vienna – October 29, 1939, Altshausen Castle in the district of Ravensburg), Prussian and Wuerttemberg field marshal. Albrecht had joined the army in 1883; at the start of the war the then colonel general and Wuerttembergian heir to the throne was given command of the German Fourth Army, which he led through the Ardennes into France. In October the Fourth Army was transferred to Flanders where it participated in the fighting at the Ypres salient (Fir…

Wilhelm II, King of Württemberg (Stuttgart February 25, 1848, Stuttgart – October 2, 1921, Bebenhausen Castle), King of Württemberg. Wilhelm acceded to the throne in 1891, and distinguished himself by his civilian, almost bourgeois way of life, and at the same time by the presidential style in which he discharged his office. He had little power to influence foreign and military policy, and that power was further diminished during the war. In 1914 he retired from the Württemberg army without regret. In the course of the war he sought to demonstrate his attachment to…