Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein Military person

Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (April 24, 1870 – October 16, 1948) was a German General from Nuremberg. He was a member of the group of German officers who assisted in the direction of the Ottoman Army during World War I. Kress von Kressenstein was part of Otto Liman von Sanders military mission to Turkey, which arrived in Turkey shortly before World War I broke out.Von Kressenstein came from a patrician family in Nuremberg. His father Georg Kress von Kressenstein (1840–1911) was a high court judge. Von Kressenstein joined the Bavarian army as an ensign in the artillery in 1888.