Fritz Wilhelm Theodor Karl von Below (born 23 September 1853 in Danzig (Gdańsk); died 23 November 1918 in Weimar) was a Prussian general in the German Army during the First World War.
In 1912, Below was appointed to the command of the 21st Army Corps. In this capacity, he fought along with the Sixth Army on the western front at the beginning of World War I, but his corps was transferred in 1915 to the eastern front. He then commanded the Eighth A...
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Fritz Wilhelm Theodor Karl von Below (born 23 September 1853 in Danzig (Gdańsk); died 23 November 1918 in Weimar) was a Prussian general in the German Army during the First World War.
In 1912, Below was appointed to the command of the 21st Army Corps. In this capacity, he fought along with the Sixth Army on the western front at the beginning of World War I, but his corps was transferred in 1915 to the eastern front. He then commanded the Eighth Army after Paul von Hindenburg from 1914 to 1916, the Second Army at the beginning of the Somme offensive in 1916, and finally the First Army which was involved in fighting in November 1916.
He was awarded the Pour le Mérite medal on 16 February 1915. Below died in Weimar shortly after Germany had signed the armistice.
Below was the cousin of Otto von Below, another German commander during the war.
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