Alfred Fletcher
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Alfred Fletcher | |
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| Born | 20 January 1875 |
| Died | 20 September 1959 (aged 84) |
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Alfred Fletcher (20 January 1875 Lampersdorf, Province of Lower Silesia, German Empire – 20 September 1959 Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, West Germany) was a German soldier, Major and politician.
Life
[edit]Fletcher fought as a soldier in World War I. After the capitulation in November 1918 he became active in the Baltic states as commander of the pro-German Baltische Landeswehr.[1] For a short while he was military governor of Riga where it experienced a period of White Terror against the local populace. After the defeat of his forces at Wenden in the Latvian war of independence, he returned to Germany and entered politics as a member of the German National People's Party.
References
[edit]- ^ Nigel Jones, The Birth of the Nazis: How the Freikorps Blazed a Trail for Hitler, Constable & Robinson, 2004, pp. 167-169
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Categories:
- 1875 births
- 1959 deaths
- People from Ząbkowice County
- Military personnel from the Province of Silesia
- Politicians from the Province of Silesia
- German Protestants
- German National People's Party politicians
- Members of the Reichstag 1924
- German Army personnel of World War I
- Baltische Landeswehr personnel
- Central Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War
