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August Justus Alexander Keim (born April 25, 1845 in Marienschloß near Rockenberg ; † January 12, 1926 in Jugenheim an der Bergstrasse ) was a Prussian lieutenant general , co-founder of the German Fleet Association and in 1912 founder and chairman of the German Defense Association .

Life

Keim joined the Prussian army as an infantryman, became a lieutenant in 1866 and took part in the war against Austria in the same year . He fought in the war against France in 1870/71 and became a captain in 1878 . In 1881 he was transferred to the General Staff . In 1889 he became a major and battalion commander, and in 1893 a lieutenant colonel . From June 16, 1896 Keim was Colonel in command of the Fusilier Regiment "Prince Karl-Anton von Hohenzollern" (Hohenzollernsches) No. 40 . He gave up this command on November 18, 1898 and was retired with the statutory pension and the right to wear the regimental uniform. On the occasion of his departure, Keim was awarded the Order of the Crown, 2nd class.

On 18 January 1901 he was awarded the character as a major general . In the First World War germ was reused. He was first Landsturm inspector in Liège and later military governor of the Limburg province in Belgium. In this position he received the character of Lieutenant General on July 9, 1916.

He saw himself as a military writer a. a. in the German Memorial Hall (National-Verlag, Berlin), he was editor of the yearbooks for the German army and navy from 1903 to 1914 and was often active in the daily press in military and military policy matters. This activity led to the end of his Prussian military career when he took his leave on December 12, 1898. The departure had been suggested to him because of public criticism of the emperor's policies.

Between 1901 and 1908 Keim was a member of the board of the German Fleet Association, initially as an assessor, and finally as executive chairman. Together with the President Otto Fürst zu Salm-Horstmar and the board member Major General zD Wilhelm Menges, he was the defining personality in the Fleet Club during these years, who polarized both inside and outside the club with his uncompromising, radical national views. After years of violent internal dispute within the association, Keim and his colleagues on the board had to resign in January 1908 and from then on played no role in the fleet association.

From 1911 to 1919 Keim was part of the main leadership of the Pan-German Association .

In 1912 he was one of the founders and driving forces behind the German Defense Association .

After the end of the Second World War, Keim's writings became Graf Schlieffen's. A study in connection with the World Wars (= Political and military time issues , Issue 32. Georg Bath, Berlin 1921) and Prince Max von Baden (= Empire spoiler , Part 2. Georg Bath, Berlin 1922) in the Soviet occupation zone or the GDR on the list of literature to be discarded is set.

Fonts

  • Experienced and strived for. Life memories. Ernst Letsch Verlag, Hanover 1925.

swell

  • Genealogical handbook of bourgeois families, 32nd volume, 1920, Verlag SA Starke, Görlitz.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 5: Hitz – Kozub . 2nd edition, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25035-4 , p. 559.
  2. ^ Gordon A. Craig: German History 1866-1945. From the English by Karl Heinz Siber, 2nd edition, Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-42106-7 , p. 322.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 104 of November 26, 1898, p. 2678.
  4. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 105 of November 30, 1898, p. 2696.
  5. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 6 of January 18, 1901, p. 122.
  6. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 12/13 of July 15, 1916, p. 264.
  7. ↑ Sebastian Diziol: "Germans, become members of the fatherland!" The German Fleet Association 1898-1934. Solivagus Praeteritum, Kiel 2015, ISBN 978-39817079-0-8 . Pp. 64-83.
  8. ^ Rainer Hering: Constructed Nation: the Pan-German Association 1890 to 1939. Christians, Hamburg 2003, p. 129.
  9. ↑ Marilyn Shevin Coetzee: The German Army League. Popular Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990. ISBN 978-0195061093 .
  10. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-k.html
  11. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-q.html
personal data
SURNAME Germ, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keim, August Justus Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienschloß near Rockenberg
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1926
Place of death Youth home on Bergstrasse