Ernst von Oven

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Ernst von Oven

Ernst Friedrich Otto von Oven (born February 3, 1859 in Haus Velmode, Hamm district , † May 21, 1945 in Goslar ) was a Prussian officer , most recently a general of the infantry of the Reichswehr .

Life

Ernst was a cousin of Georg von Oven and Wilfred von Oven's uncle .

Oven joined the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment 91 as an ensign in 1878 and was promoted to secondary lieutenant on February 14, 1880 . After attending the War Academy , he was assigned to the General Staff as Prime Lieutenant and transferred to it as Captain in 1893. In 1903 Oven was battalion commander in the 8th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 153 and then joined the staff of the infantry regiment "Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia" (2nd Magdeburg) No. 27 as a lieutenant colonel . When he was promoted to colonel on August 7, 1908, he became the commander of the Fusilier regiment "General-Feldmarschall Graf Moltke" (Silesian) No. 38 in Glatz . On April 22, 1912, he became a major general in command of the 38th Infantry Brigade , which was part of the 19th Division in Hanover.

At the beginning of the First World War , Oven became commander of the 21st Division on August 2, 1914 . In association with the 4th Army , he marched into France via Luxembourg . At Longlier he led his troops into battle for the first time and then fought victoriously in the battle of Neufchâteau . In the following battle on the Meuse he was able to save the 25th Division from being surrounded by the enemy. On January 27, 1915, he was promoted to lieutenant general.

At the beginning of 1916 his division stood before Verdun , with which he then entered the battle that began there on February 21, 1916. In September the division was withdrawn from the front and transferred to the Somme . There she was able to thwart several attempts by enemy forces to break through.

On January 2, 1917 Oven was succeeded by Oskar von Hutier with the leadership of the XXI. Army Corps commissioned that at this time was deployed on the Eastern Front . After fighting on Lake Naratsch , the corps was transferred to the western front in November 1917 and deployed in the area of Army Division A , then in the area of Army Division B in the Vosges . In the spring of 1918, Oven took over the Maas-West section off Verdun and was able to assert himself there in the heavy defensive battles between Argonne and Maas . Oven was wounded during the fighting, but retained the command of the corps. On October 25, 1918, Oven was awarded the Pour le Mérite order for the achievements of his association .

After the armistice , he led his troops back home. At the end of 1919, Oven was entrusted with the management of the military operations that ended with the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic . Subsequently, Oven was entrusted with the management of the II. Army Corps in Stettin , with which he then took part in the border guard east against Poland.

In the formation of the 200,000-man transition army on September 30, 1919 Oven was relieved of his post and award of the character as General of Infantry at his request, to the disposition provided.

Awards

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 540-541.
  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: MZ. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 102-103.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Wuerttemberg) Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 86.
personal data
SURNAME Oven, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oven, Ernst Friedrich Otto von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer, most recently general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH House Velmode, Hamm district
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1945
Place of death Goslar