Albert von Mutius (General)

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Albert Louis Hugo Max von Mutius (born September 12, 1862 in Gellenau , † July 15, 1937 in Bunzlau ) was a Prussian lieutenant general in the First World War .

Life

origin

Albert was the great-nephew of General Louis von Mutius . His parents were the state elder and Rittmeister a. D. Hans von Mutius (1825–1883) and his wife Gerta, née von Bethmann-Hollweg (* 1831).

Military career

Mutius joined the 1st Silesian Dragoon Regiment No. 4 of the Prussian Army on March 30, 1882 as a flag junior and was promoted to second lieutenant on February 13, 1883 .

He served on the General Staff for most of his career . As Chief of the General Staff of the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps) he was promoted to colonel on April 22, 1912 . On October 1, 1913, he became the commander of the 44th Cavalry Brigade in Gliwice , which was disbanded the following year with the mobilization on the occasion of the First World War. On August 3, Mutius was appointed commander of the 23rd Landwehr Brigade in the Landwehr Corps. With this he went to the Vistula . On September 1, 1914, Mutius was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the newly established XXIV Reserve Corps . This fought in the west until November , then in the east .

Mutius was promoted to major general on December 24, 1914 . On July 22, 1915, he was appointed commander of the 4th Guard Infantry Brigade . After having proven himself as a leader of the infantry , he became leader of the cavalry again . He held the command of the 38th Cavalry Brigade before he was commander of the 9th Cavalry Division on September 9 and received command of the 7th Cavalry Division on October 11, 1916 . Together with the 6th Cavalry Division, it formed the "Schmettow Cavalry Corps" which in turn belonged to the 9th Army .

On April 15, 1917 he was appointed commander of the 17th Reserve Division , which was at the time in the Siegfried Line . For the storming of Messines and Wytschaete in April 1918 by his division, which laid the basis for taking the Kemmel as part of the Fourth Battle of Flanders , Mutius was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords. After the battle of Soissons and Reims he was promoted to lieutenant general on July 15, 1918. In recognition of his achievements during the defensive battle in August, his commanding general , Theodor von Watter ( General Command of the Caudry Group) proposed him to the order Pour le Mérite - which was awarded to him on September 4, 1918. After he had returned his division to his home country and demobilized it there , Mutius was put up for disposal on January 10, 1919 .

family

The later political scientist and theologian Gerta Scharffenorth (1912-2014) was his daughter.

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 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2516-2 , pp. 497-498.
  • Otto Dziobek: History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162, first edition 1922.
  • Hanns Möller: The history of the knights of the order “pour le merite” in World War 1914–1918. Volume 2: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935, pp. 77–79.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian nobility. Second volume, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1893, p. 443.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i 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. 73.
  3. ↑ Lübeck city archives in terms of Senate files: Directory of the owner of the Lübeckischen Hanseatic Cross. Signature 1093.
personal data
SURNAME Mutius, Albert of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mutius, Albert Louis Hugo Max von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Lieutenant General in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Gellenau
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1937
Place of death Bunzlau