Arnold von Möhl

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Arnold Möhl , since 1918 Knight von Möhl (born March 26, 1867 in Nandlstadt , † December 27, 1944 in Starnberg ) was a German infantry general of the Reichswehr .

Life

origin

Arnold was the son of the doctor Karl Möhl (1838–1871) and his wife Marianne, née von Dall'Armi (1844–1871).

Military career

Möhl came after graduation at a grammar school as a cadet on 25 August 1884 at the 6th Infantry Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia," the Bavarian army one. From March 1, 1885 to February 10, 1886, he took the officer course at the military school in Munich and was promoted to ensign on April 16, 1885 . On January 11, 1887, he was appointed second lieutenant . In mid-1888 Möhl completed a riding course with the 6th Chevaulegers Regiment "Prince Albrecht of Prussia" . On October 1, 1890, he then entered his service with the 19th Infantry Regiment “King Viktor Emanuel III. from Italy ” in Erlangen . In 1892/95 Möhl graduated from the War Academy , which gave him the qualification for the general staff, the senior adjutantage and the subject (tactics).

As a prime lieutenant , he was then assigned to the airship department for a year. For a short time Möhler then served again in the 19th Infantry Regiment “King Viktor Emanuel III. von Italien "and was transferred to Landau in the Palatinate with the appointment as adjutant of the 6th Infantry Brigade . From there, Möhl came to the central office of the Bavarian General Staff three years later. At the same time as his promotion to captain , he was transferred to the General Staff of the Ingolstadt Fortress on July 27, 1901 . From September 30, 1903 Möhl was employed as a company commander in the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" , where from January 1 to December 31, 1904 he also acted as a deputy permanent judge at the court martial of the regiment. From October 17, 1905 to September 30, 1906 he was first general staff officer of the 4th Division and subsequently as a major (from July 20, 1906) teacher at the War Academy . On October 22, 1909 Möhl switched back to the troop service, was a battalion commander in the 6th Infantry Regiment, came a year later as the first general staff officer to the III. Army Corps and one year later became chief of the general staff there. Möhl had already become a lieutenant colonel on March 3, 1911 . Möhl was appointed director of the War Academy on March 27, 1913 and promoted in this capacity to colonel on August 25, 1913 .

At the beginning of the First World War , Möhl became commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment on August 1, 1914, with which he was initially used in the battle of Lorraine after mobilization on the Western Front . He gave up the regiment on March 5, 1915, became Chief of the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps and as such on April 8, 1915 Major General . From September 13, 1916 to January 14, 1917 Möhl was the commander of the 12th Infantry Brigade and then received command of the 16th Infantry Division .

With the award of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on March 12, 1918, the ennoblement was connected with the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Möhl from this point on .

For his achievements during the battle of Monchy- Bapaume Möhl was awarded the order Pour le Mérite on October 9, 1918 . The Bavarian King Ludwig III. honored him by being awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order .

After the end of the war, Möhl was initially made available as an officer by the army on December 22, 1918. After the establishment of the Munich Soviet Republic at the beginning of April 1919, Möhl was given the command of the Bavarian and Württemberg Reichswehr parts and Freikorps used to defeat them , while Ernst von Oven carried the overall command . In May 1919, the Bavarian Reichswehr Group Command 4 emerged from this "Oberkommando von Möhl". As its commander, Möhl was also the state commander of Bavaria. As a lieutenant general (since June 23, 1920) Möhl was then on October 1, 1920 commander of the 7th (Bavarian) Division and at the same time commander in military district VII and state commander of Bavaria. On March 6, 1922 Möhl received the character of General of the Infantry. In 1922, he assisted in Bavaria coup attempts Otto Pitt Ingers and Ernst Pöhners against the Count Lerchenfeld , although he is by the Nazis distanced.

When Möhl was appointed Commander in Chief of Group Command 2 in Kassel at the beginning of 1923 (while at the same time being promoted to General of the Infantry), Möhl was withdrawn from Bavarian domestic politics. On December 31, 1924 Möhl left the Reichswehr. When he returned to Bavaria in autumn 1925, he was a co-founder of the “Bayerntreue” association. As an active member of the Kyffhäuserbund , he maintained good contacts with Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria .

Möhl moved to Starnberg in 1928, where he died shortly before the end of the Second World War . He was buried without any military honors.

Honors

In Amberg there was the “Ritter von Möhl barracks” on Sebastianstrasse (built in 1935/36 for the Wehrmacht), which had been used by the US Army after 1945 under the name “Pond Barracks”. After the US garrison withdrew in 1992, the area was converted into a civilian residential area.

Works

  • Our armed might. 1919

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 526.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1930, p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Möhl, Arnold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möhl, Arnold Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Nandlstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1944
Place of death Starnberg