Max Morgenstern-Döring

Johannes Max Ferdinand Morgenstern-Döring (born May 11, 1858 in Leipzig , † August 12, 1931 in Dresden ) was a Saxon lieutenant general .

Life

Max was the son of the factory owner Hermann Morgenstern-Döring and his wife Bertha, née Döring.

From 1871 to 1879, he attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . From 1879 to 1880 he studied at the University of Leipzig . He then became an officer candidate in the Saxon Army .

From 1881 to 1893 he was first as a lieutenant , then as a first lieutenant in the infantry regiment "Prince Johann Georg" (8th Royal Saxon) No. 107 in Leipzig. From 1893 to 1903 he served as a captain and company commander in the 1st Royal Saxon Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 100 in Dresden . From 1903 to 1907 he served as a major and battalion commander in the 10th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 134 in Plauen. From 1907 to 1911 he was lieutenant colonel and commander of the 11th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 139 in Döbeln . With the promotion to colonel on September 23, 1911, he was appointed commander of the 15th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 181 in Chemnitz . He held this command until March 17, 1914.

During the First World War, as major general , he led the Dresden 64th Infantry Brigade (6th Royal Saxon). They fought u. a. on the Marne and around Verdun . On April 1, 1916, Morgenstern-Döring took over the 24th Reserve Division (2nd Royal Saxon) from Oskar von Ehrenthal and fought first on the western and from May 1917 on the eastern front . His unit took part in the Battle of the Somme in the winter of 1916 . In his staff u. a. Ernst Heinrich Prince of Saxony , the son of the Saxon King Friedrich August III. He later described his commander as always friendly and helpful. At the beginning of November 1917, the relocation took place back to the Western Front, where the division took part in the Battle of Cambrai in December . Morgenstern-Döring gave his command to his successor Martin von Oldershausen on January 30, 1918 . He then succeeded Franz Francke as commander of the 212th Division (9th Royal Saxon) . After the end of the war, the association was demobilized in March 1919 .

In 1920 Morgenstern-Döring lived in Oberlößnitz , in the now listed Arnim house at Waldstraße 20.

Awards

Morgenstern-Döring received the following awards:

• Commander II class with swords of the Saxon Order of Merit
• Commander first class with swords of the Albrecht Order
• Saxon service award cross
• Order of the Red Eagle II class with swords
• Order of the Crown II class with the star and swords
• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
• Military Order of St. Heinrich
  • Knight's Cross on October 15, 1914
  • Commander II class on August 28, 1916
• Bavarian Order of Military Merit 2nd class with swords
• Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross II. Class
• Cross for merit in war
• Austrian Military Merit Cross II. Class with the war decoration
• Iron crescent
• Wounded badge
• China commemorative coin
• South West Africa commemorative coin

Fonts

• The 24th (Royal Saxon) Reserve Division in World War 1914/17. With a foreword by the division commander Major General Morgenstern-Döring on behalf of the division, published by Leutnant der Reserve Schroeder, picture and map, Leipzig 1917.

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Morgenstern-Döring in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Sachse , Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912. BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 66.
2. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Prince of Saxony : My path in life from the royal castle to the farm . Paul List Verlag, Munich 1968, p. 84.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Dresden address book, 1920, VI. Part Oberlößnitz, p. 362.
4. ↑ Saxon War Ministry, Department for Personal Affairs (Ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Saxon Army for the year 1914. C. Heinrich, Dresden 1914, p. 39
5. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs-Orden 1736–1918, an honorary sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 468.
6. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs-Orden 1736–1918, an honorary sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 99.