Anatol Graf von Bredow

Anatol August Friedrich Albrecht Graf von Bredow (born January 7, 1859 in Potsdam , † March 22, 1941 in Seefeld ) was a German cavalry general .

Life

Anatol came from the old noble family of those von Bredow . He joined the 2nd Hanover Dragoons Regiment No. 16 in Lüneburg on April 14, 1877 , coming from the cadet corps as a secondary lieutenant . There he worked as a regimental adjutant from July 1, 1882, was promoted to prime lieutenant on July 2, 1886 and at the same time was appointed adjutant of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade in Stettin . On March 22, 1889, he was transferred to the 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment "Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland" in Berlin and shortly afterwards on April 1, 1889, he was assigned to the General Staff . Bredow was transferred to the General Staff of the Guard Corps on March 24, 1890 while being promoted to Rittmeister . Bredow stayed here for two years and then took over as chief of a squadron in the 1st Brandenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 2 in Schwedt . Two years later he was transferred to the Great General Staff and on September 12, 1895 Bredow was promoted to major . From there he was commanded on June 15, 1896 to serve with Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia . Almost four months later Bredow received the post of first general staff officer in the general staff of the 17th division for two years and was then transferred to the general staff again. On November 4, 1899, he was commanded to represent the Plenipotentiary at the Legation in London , where he was appointed as a military attaché from August 17, 1900 to February 12, 1902 . This was followed by another assignment in the General Staff from February 13, 1902, and shortly afterwards Bredow was commissioned on March 22, 1902 with the command of the 1st Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 17 , of which he was also commander a month later. As such Bredow was born on April 22, 1902, first lieutenant colonel and on March 16, 1905 , Colonel . He was then commissioned on January 27, 1902 with the command of the 33rd Cavalry Brigade and acted as its commander from March 22, 1907 to April 19, 1910. In the meantime promoted to major general on March 24, 1909 , he was then put to the disposition and put into temporary retirement.

First World War

With the outbreak of the First World War , Bredow was reactivated, initially used as commander of the Deputy 8th Infantry Brigade, and on August 7, 1914, appointed commander of the Poznan main reserve and promoted to lieutenant general on January 1, 1915 . As such, from May 26, 1915, he was in command of the Landwehr division named after him, which emerged from the main reserve of the Posen Fortress and continued to be used on the Eastern Front . After the establishment, on July 23, 1915, it was renamed the 18th Landwehr Division . This command gave Bredow on September 4, 1917 and was then with the leadership of the III. Reserve Corps commissioned. Bredow was to hold this position after the end of the war until his return home. His mobilization provision was lifted on February 24, 1919 and he finally passed into retirement.

On August 27, 1939, the so-called Tannenberg Day, Bredow was given the character of General of the Cavalry.

Awards

• Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with the loop
• Order of the Crown II class
• Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
• Prussian service award cross
• Commander of the Order of the Griffin
• Officer of the Belgian Order of the Leopold
• Commander of the Bulgarian Military Order of Merit
• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
• Pour le Mérite on July 23, 1915

literature

• Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 189-190.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1909. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1909, p. 99.