Arnold von Winckler

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Arnold von Winckler

Arnold Alois Maria Feodor Gustav Winckler (* 17th February 1856 in Neisse ; † 24. July 1937 in Bad Freienwalde ) was a Prussian general of the infantry in the First World War .

Life

origin

He was the son of the later Prussian Lieutenant General Fedor von Winckler (1813–1895) and his wife Marie, née Freiin von Rheinbaben (1817–1909). She was the sister of the later general of the cavalry Albert von Rheinbaben .

Military career

On April 10, 1873, Winckler joined the Jäger Battalion No. 5 of the Prussian Army in Hirschberg as a flag junior and received his patent as a second lieutenant on November 12, 1874 . After his transfer to the Jäger Battalion No. 8 he was commanded from October 1880 to March 1884 for further training at the War Academy . Continuing his military career Winckler was the starting May 17, 1902 Commander Guards Rifle Battalion and served in that capacity on 18 April 1903 a lieutenant colonel , and on 10 April 1906 Colonel promoted. From June 14, 1906 to November 17, 1907, he commanded the Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke of Saxony" (5th Thuringian) No. 94 in Weimar and then the Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3 . Promoted to major general , he became commander of the 57th Infantry Brigade in Freiburg im Breisgau on March 22, 1910 . On April 4, 1911, he was appointed inspector of infantry schools. Winckler resigned this post on September 30 of the following year and received command of the 2nd Guard Division in Berlin when he was promoted to Lieutenant General .

With this large formation he went into the field in August 1914 as part of the Guard Corps ( 2nd Army ) on the Western Front and took part in the Battle of the Marne , among other things . In the spring of 1915 he was transferred with his division to the Eastern Front, where he took part in the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów and the subsequent fighting . On June 29, 1915, he took command of the XXXXI. Reserve Corps , before he swapped positions with Hans von Gronau in September to lead his previous IV Reserve Corps in the campaign against Serbia . After the conclusion of this campaign in Albania , for which he was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite on November 27 , 1916 he was deployed on the Salonika Front against the Entente . In March 1916 Winckler took over command of the 11th Army from his predecessor Max von Gallwitz . With this army, consisting mainly of Bulgarian units, he was busy defending against an Allied offensive against Monastir for the rest of the year . In June 1917 Winckler, General of the Infantry since March 22, 1917, was replaced by Kuno Arndt von Steuben . On June 15, he received the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite for his mission in Macedonia.

Winckler's next command was formally that of the 1st Army Corps , in fact he commanded the southern wing of the Austro-Hungarian 2nd Army under Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli , with whom he played a key role in the defense against the Russian Kerensky offensive . By on July 19, 1917 scheduled counterattack of his attack group from the room Zloczow was Tarnopol recaptured almost all Eastern Galicia.

After the armistice in the east, he exchanged positions in February 1918 with Wilhelm Groener , whose XXV. Reserve Corps for the participation in the German spring offensive on the Somme (" Michael attack ") was intended. With his corps, Winckler also took part in the later " Blücher attack " at the end of May / beginning of June from the Aisne to the Marne as well as in the defense against the Allied counter-offensive in July ( Second Battle of the Marne ). After the armistice he took his leave in early 1919.

family

Winckler was married to Wanda von Walcke-Schuldt (1869–1945), daughter of the Lauenburg landscape councilor Oskar Ferdinand von Walcke-Schuldt and Marie Röper. He had two children with her.

literature

  • Alfred von Besser : Master list of officers and medical officers of the Guard Rifle Battalion. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, pp. 150–151.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 543-545.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volume 41, Noble Houses B VIII, Starke Verlag (Winckler)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 8, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 367632837 , p. 457, no. 2690.