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The XII (1st Royal Saxon) Army Corps / XII AK (German: XII. (I. Königlich Sächsisches) Armee-Korps) was a Saxon corps level command of the Saxon and German Armies before and during World War I. The Corps was formed as the Royal Saxon Corps on 1 April 1867 and headquartered in Dresden.
The Royal Saxon Army (German: Königlich Sächsische Armee) was the military force of the Electorate (1682–1807) and later the Kingdom of Saxony (1807–1918). A regular Saxon army was first established in 1682 and it continued to exist until the abolition of the German monarchies in 1918.
The actual rank of a title-holder in Germany depended not only on the nominal rank of the title, but also the degree of sovereignty exercised, the rank of the title-holder's suzerain, and the length of time the family possessed its status within the nobility (Uradel, Briefadel, altfürstliche, neufürstliche, see: German nobility).
Johann Adolf Freiherr von Thielmann (painting by Anton Graff). Thielmann was born at Dresden. Entering the Saxon cavalry in 1782, he saw service against the French in the Rhine campaigns and served on the side of Prussia in the Jena campaign.
Was the highest-ranking member of a given nation's force that participated in the conflict (if that rank was not at least major general) Was the highest-ranking member of a given state/colonial militia; Was a provincial or territorial governor who is documented to have directed a military action
In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn or thane [1] (Latin minister [2]) was an aristocrat who ranked at the third level in lay society, below the king and ealdormen. [3] He had to be a substantial landowner. Thanage refers to the tenure by which lands were held by a thane as well as the rank.
Kurt Wahle (26 December 1855 – 19 June 1928) was a Saxon general who travelled to German East Africa in 1914 to visit his son. Being in the colony at the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered to serve under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, despite outranking him, and became one of his front commanders.