Martin Wilhelm Remus von Woyrsch (4 February 1847-6 August 1920) was a Prussian and Imperial German Army Field Marshal who served in the Austro-Prussian War, Franco-Prussian War, and World War I.
Biography[]
Martin Wilhelm Remus von Woyrsch was born in Pilsnitz, Silesia, Prussia (present-day Pilczyce, Poland) in 1847, and he came from an old Bohemian noble family; he was the uncle of Udo von Woyrsch. He joined the Prussian Army in 1866 and served at the Battle of Koniggratz during the Austro-Prussian War, and he was awarded the Iron Cross after being wounded in the Franco-Prussian War. Von Woyrsch retired in 1911 with the rank of divisional commander, but he returned to duty in August 1914 to command the Landwehr Corps and was sent to reinforce the struggling Austro-Hungarian Army in Poland. Woyrsch helped to fight off the Russian Baranovichi offensive and the Brusilov Offensive before being promoted to Field Marshal in 1917, and he again retired in 1920 and died at his family castle that same year at the age of 73.