Augustin Xavier Richert
Augustin Xavier Richert (born August 29, 1879 in Alsace , German Empire , † January 17, 1975 in Dannemarie (Haut-Rhin) ) was a French general .
Life
Richert grew up in Strueth in Alsace, Germany, and attended school in Saint-Ulrich . When he was 14, his parents sent him to Delle in France to a Benedictine school where he learned French. At the age of 21, he signed up for the Foreign Legion . He graduated from the Saint-Cyr Military School and became a French officer in the Foreign Legion. After the First World War he became the commander of a unit in the Saar area . Under the government of Aristide Briand he was sent to Munich in 1921 as a former German officer . Raymond Poincaré sent Richert to French Morocco in 1923 to block the Rif Republic under Abd el-Krim in neighboring Spanish Morocco in the Rif War (1921) . Richert was promoted to brigadier general in 1936. Richert experienced the German occupation of France in 1940 in French North Africa .
Richert ended his career as commanding general of the Foreign Legion.
Richert received various military awards and was made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor . He was a Grand Officer of the Ouissam Alaouite , had the Croix de guerre (1914–1918 with a palm and a star), the Belgian War Cross , the Colonial Medal , the Médaille interalliée 1914-1918 , the Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914-1918 and the Army United States Distinguished Service Medal .
Putsch in Bavaria 1923
When Raymond Poincaré took over the government in France on January 15, 1922 , Richert also took over the agent in Munich. The theater critic Georg Fuchs testified that Richert had introduced himself as a former French officer who was dissatisfied with the policies of his government and who had to provide funding for a conspiracy in Bavaria for interested parties in French industry. Richert sought contact with right-wing extremist circles in Bavaria and handed over the money for the conspiracy to representatives of Bund Wiking , the cover organization of the Consul organization : Government architect Rudolf Schäfer (* 1885) received 35 million marks (inflation-adjusted 28,500 gold marks) and Lieutenant Eberhard Kautter received 55 million Reichsmarks (adjusted for inflation, 40,000 gold marks).
Rupprecht von Bayern was offered an office in the putsch regime; when he learned of the origin of the funding, he reported the conspiracy. On February 28, 1923, Ernst Pöhner decided against the conspiracy and numerous suspects were arrested. Augustin Xavier Richert was in France at the time.
literature
- Ulrich Richert: Saga familiale . J. do Bentzinger, Colmar 2005, ISBN 2-84960-041-5
Web links
- Xavier Augustin Richert , with Dominique Richert
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Behrendt: L'Angleterre et la France face à Hitler et son putsch en novembre 1923 . In: Francia 12 (1984), p. 469 (footnote 61).
- ^ Général Richert , at the Musée des Etoiles
- ^ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria , Blücherbund
- ↑ Dieter J. Weiss: Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria (1869–1955). A political biography . Pustet, Regensburg 2007, p. 209.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richert, Augustin Xavier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alsace |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1975 |
| Place of death | Dannemarie (Haut-Rhin) |