Adolf von Ruith

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Adolf Ruith , Knight of Ruith since 1915 , (born May 11, 1872 in Bamberg , † October 5, 1950 in Gauting ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the infantry of the Reichswehr .

Life

family

Adolf was the son of the Bavarian colonel and writer Maximilian Ruith (1836-1892) and his wife Karolina, née Stauber. He married Helene, widowed Butsch, née von Sauter on June 22, 1907. The marriage remained childless, but his wife brought a child into the marriage.

Military career

Ruith completed his Abitur at a humanistic grammar school . Then he joined the 3rd Infantry Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria" of the Bavarian Army in Augsburg on September 1, 1890 as a three-year-old volunteer and officer aspirant . After his appointment as Portepeefähnrich in April 1891, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant on June 9, 1892 . As such, Ruith rose to senior lieutenant and regimental adjutant in 1899 . From 1903 to 1906 Ruith graduated from the Bavarian War Academy , which awarded him the qualification for the general staff, the senior adjutantage and the departmental service. He was then assigned to the Central Office of the General Staff and, when promoted to captain in 1907, was transferred to the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps . In 1909 Ruith returned to service for two years and became company commander in the 19th Infantry Regiment “King Viktor Emanuel III. of Italy ” in Erlangen . He was then reassigned to the Central Office of the General Staff, where he was promoted to major in 1912 and appointed Adjutant to the Chief of the General Staff of the Army. At the same time, Ruith was assigned to the Great General Staff in Berlin and appointed him a military member of the Bavarian Senate at the Reich Military Court for a period of two years .

When the First World War broke out , Ruith became the first general staff officer in the 1st Reserve Division . With her he took part in the Battle of Lorraine , the battles off Nancy - Épinal , the Somme , the trench warfare in the Artois and the December battle in Flanders . The spring of 1915 was marked by the expansion of the positions of the division located in Artois. In the spring battle of La Bassée-Arras , the major association was able to maintain the positions assigned to it. At Maison Blanche and La Targette, the enemy managed to break deeply into the position of the neighboring 5th Reserve Division . Only by bringing in the entire reserves of the 1st Reserve Division could the situation be cleared up. On May 9, 1915, Ruith was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order for his management activities. The personal nobility was associated with the award and after being entered in the Bavarian nobility register, he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Ruith. In the further course of the war Ruith was transferred to the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps in September 1915 and from there to the General Staff of the Southern Army on April 10, 1916 . With her he served on the Eastern Front , became a lieutenant colonel in 1917 and returned to France in early 1918 as Chief of the General Staff of General Command No. 63 on the Western Front . From May until the end of the war, Ruith still acted as Chief of Staff of General Command No. 57.

After the Armistice of Compiègne , Ruith was commander of the Border Guard South from December 28, 1918 and joined the II Army Corps in May 1919 as Chief of the General Staff . With the dissolution of the Bavarian Army , Ruith was taken over by the Provisional Reichswehr and used as the commander of the Reichswehr Rifle Regiment 42. During the Kapp Putsch, he was loyal to General Hans von Seeckt .

Then he was transferred to the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin, where he was head of the educational system and was promoted to colonel on June 16, 1920. After the formation of the Reichswehr, Ruith returned to Munich and became Chief of Staff of the 7th (Bavarian) Division . From February 1, 1922 to October 30, 1923 he was then commander of the 19th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment and was then appointed as major general to Infantry Leader VII. In this position he was promoted to Lieutenant General on June 7, 1926 and as such Ruith was appointed commander of the 7th (Bavarian) Division on January 1, 1927. Linked to this was the position as commander in military district VII and state commander of Bavaria. Ruith received the character of General of the Infantry on December 1, 1929 and retired shortly afterwards on January 31, 1930 from active service.

Awards

literature

  • Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 558.
  • Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor 1914–1918. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Munich 1966. pp. 391-392.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 558.
  2. ↑ Harold J. Gordon Jr .: The Reichswehr and the Weimar Republic. Defense Publishing House Bernard & Graefe. Frankfurt am Main 1959. p. 242.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1924. p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Ruith, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruith, Adolf Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, general of the infantry of the Reichswehr
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1950
Place of death Gauting