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in April 1918. Shortly before the end of the war, in August, he was appointed commanding general of the
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Kneussl was retired from the army on August 18, 1919 while at the same time being promoted to
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was named after him, the General Kneussl or New Infantry Barracks.
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awarded him an honorary doctorate on May 20, 1925. In 1937 a
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in the Kovel area. Kneussl's troops proved themselves in the
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