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Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm von Wartenberg (Born August 16, 1857 in Liegnitz, † November 5, 1917 near Verdun) was a Prussian general of the infantry.

Origin [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

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Hermann came from the noble family of Wartenberg. He was a son of the Prussian Colonel of the same name by Hermann von Wartensleben (1814–1874) and his wife Elisabeth, born Elsner (1826–1910). His younger brothers Friedrich (1859–1943) and Heinrich (1865–1940) became Prussian general major.

Military career [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Wartenberg received his upbringing in the parents’ house. He attended a private school in Hirschberg, high schools in Poznan and Jauer as well as the cadet houses in Wahlstatt and Berlin. On April 23, 1874, he was transferred to the 3rd Posensche Infantry Regiment No. 58 of the Prussian Army as a secondary carnant. For further training, he completed the war academy for three years from October 1878 for three years, rose to the primeer lieutenant at the end of November 1884 and was commanded in mid -February 1887 under the position of his regiment as an adjutant of the governorate in Cologne. Underlooking in this command and promotion to surplus captain, his 8th Rhine Infantry Regiment No. 70 was transferred at the end of May 1889. With the appointment as company mucker in the “Herwarth von Bittenfeld” infantry regiment (1st Westphalian) No. 13 Wartenberg returned to the troop service on November 19, 1889. On June 21, 1894, Wartenberg was commanded for the service at the Ministry of War and moved to the 2nd Infantry Department (A 2) of the General War Department in the War Ministry in mid-August. In this capacity, he became major in mid -December 1894. From August 18, 1898 to April 17, 1901, he was the commander of III. Battalions in the infantry regiment “von Lützow” (1st Rheinische) No. 25 in Rastatt. Wartenberg was then moved to Stettin to the staff of the Grenadier Regiment “King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.” (1st Pomersches) No. 2 and promoted to lieutenant colonel in mid-May 1901. On March 10, 1904, this was followed by his appointment as head of department with the re -transfer to the Ministry of War. In this position, he rose to the colonel at the end of April 1904 and received the rank and the fees as a brigade commander in mid -December 1906. With the promotion to Major General, Wartenberg became the commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade in Wroclaw on March 21, 1908, was then inspector of the infantry schools from July 7, 1909 to April 3, 1911 and then as a lieutenant general commander of the 15th division in Cologne. In the approval of his farewell application, he was placed on May 2, 1912 with a pension and after his adoption by Wilhelm II. [first]

At the beginning of the First World War, Wartenberg was reused as a Z.D. He received command of the 10th reserve division, with which he first participated in the Battle of Longwy and the fighting for Verdun. At the end of June 1915 he gave the command and took over the 19th reserve division, which was also on the western front. During the Battle of Verdun on April 17, 1916, his major association not only managed to overrun the honeycomb ditches on the northern slope of the Albain Gorge and to conquer the French position on the Albain back, but also the goal of April 18 , to get the trenches on the back northwest of the Thiaumont flerme. Around 1800 men were captured and 35 machine guns and a field gun were captured. Your own losses amounted to over 1000 men. [2]

In the meantime promoted to the general of the infantry, Wartenberg was involved in the Battle of the Somme in October 1916 and in April 1917 in the battle on the Aisne. He was awarded the crown order 1st class with swords [3] moved to the Eastern Front with his division and took part in the fights for Riga. After five months, Wartenberg returned to the western front in September 1917, where he fell before Verdun on November 5, 1917. [4]

Family [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Wartenberg married on May 6, 1912 in Schreiberhau to Elisabeth Morgall. The marriage remained childless.

  • Julius von Basse, Karl von Kleinsorgen: State list of the Herwarth infantry regiment von Bittenfeld (1st Westphalian) No. 13. Belser, Stuttgart 1913, S. 263.
  • Gothaic genealogical paperback of the urble -like houses. The nobility (Uradel) born in Germany. 1918. Nineteen vintage, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1917, S. 890.
  • Kurt von Priesdorff: Officer master list of the Grenadier Regiment King Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1st Pomersches) No. 2. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1906, pp. 683–684.
  • Otto Zimmer-Vorhaus: 1813/1913 officer master list of the Lützow Infantry Regiment (1st Rheinische) No. 25 and its tribe, Kgl. Pr. Von Lützovian Freikorps. Otto Beckmann Verlag, Berlin 1913, pp. 590–591
  1. ↑ Military weekly sheet. No. 68 we will 30. May 1912, S. 1555.
  2. ↑ Research Institute for War and Army History (ed.): The worldwar. 1914 to 1918. Tenth band: The operations in 1916 until the change in the top army management. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1936, p. 149.
  3. ↑ Military weekly sheet. No. 188 we will 26. May 1917, S. 4680.
  4. ↑ German Officer Association (ed.): Honorary ranking of the former German army. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1926, p. 693.

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