GOLTZ, RUDIGER GRAF VON DER
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GOLTZ, RUDIGER GRAF VON DER (1865–1946), general; led the Baltic
Volunteers in 1919. Born in the Brandenburg town of Zu¨llichau (now Poland's*
Sulechow) to a noble family that traced its lineage to 1297 and had
produced forty-three generals (nineteen of whom had been awarded the Pour le
Me´rite, Prussia's* highest honor), Ru¨diger chose a military career. He began
service in World War I as commander of the Hamburg Infantry Regiment and
led various brigades on both the Western and Eastern fronts in the following
three years. When in February 1918 Finland requested assistance to neutralize
a threat from the new Red Army, Goltz was named commander of the Ostsee-
Division. Shipping his division from Danzig* to Hango¨ in April 1918, he captured
Helsinki and surrounded the Bolsheviks' Western Army near Lahti.
Assigned to create a Finnish army, he remained in Helsinki through December
1918.
Goltz assumed command of the Sixth Reserve Corps in February 1919; combined
with several Freikorps* units, his force was known as the Baltic Volunteers.
Ordered to secure the southern Baltic Provinces* from the Red Army, he
captured Riga on 22 May 1919. But his paramount aim to advance to St. Petersburg
and control the entire Baltic coast failed. After his October 1919 recall
to Germany, he resigned his commission and became an implacable foe of the
Republic. A supporter of the Kapp* Putsch (he was not involved because of his
recent problems in the Baltic), he worked with Jungdo* and helped found the
Vereinigte Vaterla¨ndische Verba¨nde Deutschlands* (Union of German Patriotic
Associations, VVVD) in 1922; he represented the VVVD in the anti–Young
Plan campaign and at the Harzburg Front* gathering of October 1931. Although
he campaigned for Hitler* in 1932, Goltz was a monarchist and an opponent of
the NSDAP's rabid racism; he played no significant role in Nazi Germany.
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