Max von Bahrfeldt

Max Ferdinand Bahrfeldt (German pronunciation: [ˈmaks ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbaːɐ̯fɛlt]), ennobled as von Bahrfeldt [fɔn ˈbaːɐ̯fɛlt] in 1913 (February 6, 1856, Willmine, District of Templin, Uckermark – April 11, 1936, Halle an der Saale) was a royal Prussian General of the Infantry, a local historian, and a numismatist of world renown. In the anglophone and francophone world, however, he was also notorious as the alleged perpetrator of atrocities in Charleroi, Belgium, during the German invasion of 1914.

Max von Bahrfeldt

Max Ferdinand Bahrfeldt (German pronunciation: [ˈmaks ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbaːɐ̯fɛlt]), ennobled as von Bahrfeldt [fɔn ˈbaːɐ̯fɛlt] in 1913 (February 6, 1856, Willmine, District of Templin, Uckermark – April 11, 1936, Halle an der Saale) was a royal Prussian General of the Infantry, a local historian, and a numismatist of world renown. In the anglophone and francophone world, however, he was also notorious as the alleged perpetrator of atrocities in Charleroi, Belgium, during the German invasion of 1914.