Adolf Wild von Hohenborn

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War Minister Adolf Wild von Hohenborn

Adolf Heinrich Hohenborn , 1888 from Hohenborn , 1900 Wild by Hohenborn , (* 8. July 1860 in Kassel , † 25. October 1925 in Malsburg-Hohenborn ) was a Prussian General of the Infantry and Heads of State and Secretary of War in the First World War .

Life

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Hohenborn was the son of a doctor and senior medical assessor.

He joined the 3rd Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 83 on September 25, 1878 as a flag junior and was promoted to secondary lieutenant on February 14, 1880 . After almost a year he was transferred to Infantry Regiment No. 130 , in which he then acted as adjutant of the 2nd Battalion from April 1, 1884 . He was given leave of absence from active service for two years from May 1, 1885, as he attended the university during this time, accompanied by Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode's eldest son . When his service resumed, Hohenborn was transferred to the Brandenburg Jäger Battalion No. 3 in Lübben .

With the mobilization on August 2, 1914, Hohenborn was appointed Deputy Minister of War. He gave up this post at the end of the month and was given command of the 30th Division , which he led in the first battle of the Aisne . From November 3, 1914, Hohenborn acted briefly as Chief of the General Staff of the 8th Army . He was recalled from this post after seven days, placed at the disposal of the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army, and on November 27th was appointed Quartermaster General.

Hohenborn was Prussian Minister of War from January 21, 1915 to October 29, 1916. His appointment was made to relieve Erich von Falkenhayn from the dual task of Minister of War and Chief of the General Staff. Hohenborn mostly stayed at the main headquarters , while his deputy, Franz Gustav von Wandel, ran the business in Berlin. He was a critic of Paul von Hindenburg , particularly of his compulsory work program. Hohenborn's decree on the census of the Jews of October 11, 1916, to prove the Jews who are in the army (including the doctors who are still contractually accepted), who are conscripted for military service, has remained ambivalent . In fact, Jewish combatants found this count a slap in the face. They had to appear in the field in front of their supervisor and tell him their religion in writing. He did not live to see it carried out in office, as he was shortly afterwards dismissed by the Kaiser at Hindenburg's instigation by the Supreme Army Command . Hindenburg later claimed in a letter to the brother of a fallen Jew that the census was only intended to refute the accusation and thus provide satisfaction to the Jews . However, this is in contrast to the detailed introductory justification of the Jewish census . The war ministry continues to receive complaints from the population (namely about shirking), for which Hohenborn is responsible by signature, but is also part of the decree: To review these complaints and, if necessary, to be able to counter them , requests the Ministry of War sincerely to provide evidence according to the attached sample 1 and 2.

He then became the commanding general of the XVI. Army Corps appointed, which was in action in the Argonne until the end of the war . After the armistice , he led his troops back home, where Hohenborn was retired on April 3, 1919. He was given the character of General of the Infantry on November 3, 1919 .

Honors

On February 8, 1888, Hohenborn received approval to use the predicate "from". Wilhelm II elevated him to the hereditary Prussian nobility on January 3, 1900 as "Wild von Hohenborn".

Hohenborn has received several awards for his services. So he got u. a .:

literature

  • Hans Wallmüller: List of officers of the Royal Prussian Infantry Regiment von Wittich (3rd Kurhessisches) No. 83. 1866–1903. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1903, pp. 239-240.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 536-538.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scan
  2. ↑ Kalonymos 19, 3, autumn 2016, p. 8 f.
  3. ↑ Kalonymos, op. Cit. P. 9, according to DigiBaeck , Georg Meyer Coll., 1958, AR 506
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 9.
  5. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs-Orden 1736–1918, A Ehrenblatt of the Saxon Army , Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 704
personal data
SURNAME Hohenborn, Adolf Wild from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wild von Hohenborn, Adolf Heinrich (full name); Hohenborn, Adolf von; Hohenborn, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry and minister of war
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1925
Place of death Malsburg-Hohenborn