Neisse
The Lusatian Neisse (german: Lausitzer Neiße; pl, Nysa Łużycka; cs, Lužická Nisa; Upper Sorbian: ''Łužiska Nysa''; Lower Sorbian: ''Łužyska Nysa''), or Western Neisse, is a river in northern Central Europe.Bad Freienwalde, 24 July 1945) was a
Prussia
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n military officer, and a general in
World War I
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.
He was the son of
Lieutenant General
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Ewald Fedor von Winckler (1813–1895) and joined the
Prussian army
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The Prussian Army had its roots in the co ...
at the age of 17. By 1912 he commanded the 2nd Guards Infantry Division in Berlin.
At the outbreak of World War I, he fought with his division on the Western Front as part of the Second Army and participated in the
First Battle of the Marne
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. In early 1915, his division was moved to the Eastern Front, where it fought in the
Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive
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Salonika front
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. Together with his Bulgarian allies, he held the frontline until he was relieved of command in June 1917. He was sent to command the I Corps.
Winckler led the successful counteroffensive to the Russian Kerensky Offensive.
After the armistice with Russia in February 1918, he received the command of the XXV Reserve Corps on the Western Front, where he fought until November 1918. Von Winckler retired from the Army in January 1919.
He died in 1945 in Bad Freienwalde.