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Name: VON SCHELLENDORF, Friedrich 'Fritz' Bronsart (Baron)

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Birth Date: 16.6.1864 Berlin

Death Date: 23.1.1950

First Date: 1901

Profession: Zebra farm of F.D. Baillie

Area: Lucania, Kinani, Voi, Machakos

Book Reference: North, Web, Hut

General Information:

Gazette 1 Feb 1908 Bird licence Kitui
North - arr. Zanzibar from Europe 20/3/1901; at Taveta on way to Mbugmi 17/4/1901; at Taveta 17/9/1901; arr. Nairobi from GEA via Naivasha May 1903; Settler's Game Licence, Nairobi 10/9/1903; proposing to run the Col. F.D. Baillie zebra farm, Lucania, April 1904; 1906 Lucania; 'a suspicious and unscrupulous character' (Sir Charles Eliot, FO 2)
Gazette - 15/10/1901 - Notes - It is understood that Baron Bronsart von Sheblendorff has been very successful in capturing and training Zebras in the vicinity of Kilimanjaro. These animals, it appears, are strong in chest, powerful of muscle, and their immunity from tsetse fly will doubtless render them a valuable acquisition in the labour market of this country especially and possibly in that of others. It transpires from the Baron's experiments that he finds himself able to tame and break in Zebra within a period of 9 months at a price of from Rs 200 to Rs 600 according to the points of the animal and degree of training required by the purchaser.
[CN is doubtful that the following is the same person:]
Chief of Staff, Ottoman Army. Ardent supporter of Hitler
Web Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf was a Prussian general officer who served during the Great War as the Chief of General Staff for the Ottomann Empire's Armed Forces. He was also considered by many to be the chief instigator in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Fritz was the son of Prussian War Minister Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff, growing up on the family estate at  Schettnienen. Upon choosing a military career, Fritz took part in the Manchurian Campaign of 1904-05 during the Russo-Japanese War.
As an Oberst in December 1913, he traveled to Constantinople with General Liman von Sanders and his military delegation. The Germans had been aksed by authorities of the Ottoman Empire to deploy to help restructure the Turkish Armed Forces. He was soon appointed as Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army and was thereafter increasingly at odds with Liman von Sanders. Bronsart and Chief of Operations Otto von Feldmann worked closely with Turkish War Minister Enver Pascha to coordinate important military issues. Although Liman von Sanders attempted to pin the disastrous Ottoman defeat on the Caucasus Front on Bronsart, Enver maintained confidence in his Chief of Staff. General Bronsart was nonetheless brought back to Germany at the end of 1917 and assigned command of the 4.Ersatz Division on the Western Front. He also commanded 10th Division during the first few months after the War and then retired from active duty at the rank of Generalleutnant. In retirement, Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorff (also spelled Schellendorf) functioned as the official director of Ludendorff's Tannenberg organization.

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