Bentivegni, Franz Eccard von, born on 18-07-1896 in Potsdam
, from an old family of soldiers. His father fell as a lieutenant colonel in World War I. He joined the Army on 22-07-1915, as a Fahnenjunker in the 2nd Garde Field Artillery Regiment and became the rank of Leutnant. He came to the Western front and was wounded 
in hospital in Namen, Belgium, for a few weeks. After World War I, Bentivegni remained in the new Reichswehr
and got the post of First General Staff Officer in the 26th Infantry Division
under command of General der Infanterie Sigismund von Förster
. Förster died 12-01-1959, age 71, in Bremen. A new 26th Volksgrenadier Division was formed on 17-09-1944 in the Warthelager, near Poznan by absorption of the 582nd Volksgrenadier Division and remnants of the old 26th Infantry Division. This new division spent the rest of the war on the Western Front under Army Group B
, under Field Marshal, Walter Model
















Death and burial ground of Bentivegni, Franz Eccard von.







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