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RĂĽdiger von der Goltz
Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (born December 8, 1865, in Züllichau, Prussia [now Poland]; died November 4, 1946, in Kinsegg, Allgäu, Germany) was the commander of German units which played an instrumental role in the defeat of Russian Bolsheviks and their local allies in Finland (1918) and Latvia (1919), but were eventually unsuccessful in retaining German control over the Baltic area after World War I.
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