Bernhard von Hülsen

Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske visits the Hülsen Freikorps, January 1919

Bernhard Franz Karl Adolf Gottvertrau von Hülsen (born April 20, 1865 in Cosel , † April 21, 1950 in Potsdam ) was a German lieutenant general in the Reichswehr and leader of the Hülsen Freikorps in the Weimar Republic .

Life

origin

He came from the north German noble family von Hülsen and was the son of the Prussian lieutenant colonel Hermann von Hülsen (* December 2, 1816 in Breslau, † February 5, 1867 in Berlin) and his second wife Helene, born von Clausewitz. The future general of the infantry Walter von Hülsen (1863-1947) was his brother.

Military career

Hülsen joined the 2nd Guard Regiment on foot in the Prussian Army on April 15, 1884 , coming from the Cadet Corps as a Second Lieutenant . There he acted as regimental adjutant from 1890 to 1894 and was promoted to prime lieutenant in September 1892 . In March 1896 he was transferred to the Army General Staff. In mid-September 1896, Hülsen was promoted to captain and as such was assigned to the War Ministry from October 1897 to mid-January 1901 . This was followed by a job as a company commander in the infantry regiment "von Courbière" (2nd Posensches) No. 19 . On April 18, 1903, while being promoted to major , Hülsen was transferred to the General Staff . He was then active in the general staff of the 1st Guard Division and the Guard Corps . On September 10, 1908, Hülsen was appointed battalion commander in the 1st Foot Guards Regiment , and in this capacity was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 22, 1910 .

At the outbreak of the First World War , Hülsen was in command of the 5th Guards Regiment on foot and in the further course of the war from January 2, 1917 to September 20, 1918 as major general in command of the 231st Division .

As a former commander in World War I, Hülsen formed the Freikorps of the same name under his command on December 26, 1918 , which was soon deployed against the Spartacus uprising in Berlin and then in Leipzig . Furthermore, the Freikorps was sent to the borders of the empire during the Third Polish Uprising in Upper Silesia (1921). At the beginning, Hülsen was also the military leader of the Oberschlesien self-protection until Lieutenant General Karl Hoefer, a native of Upper Silesia, took over its command.

In June 1919 the Freikorps was integrated into the Provisional Reichswehr as Reichswehr Brigade 3 and Hülsen continued to be used as a commander. He was dismissed as lieutenant general.

family

Hülsen married Magdalene von Schaper on July 31, 1896 in Berlin.

Works

The struggle for Upper Silesia: Upper Silesia and its self-protection . Berger's literary man. Office, Stuttgart 1922, DNB 575498862 .
Wanderings across French battlefields during the war of 1870/71. 1908.

literature

Freiherr von Bock: list of the officers' corps of the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot. June 19, 1813– May 15, 1913. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, p. 215.

Web links

Literature by and about Bernhard von Hülsen in the catalog of the German National Library

Bernhard von Hülsen in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Noble houses A. Volume XXVII, p. 562, Volume 132 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0832-9 , p. 369.
^ Georg Tessin : German Associations and Troops, 1918–1939. Old army. Volunteer associations. Reichswehr. Army. Air force. National Police . Edited on the basis of the documents of the Federal Archives-Military Archives; published with the support of the Federal Archives and the Defense Research Working Group . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , p. 191 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Werner von Bock: list of the officers of the 2nd Guard Regiment on foot. June 19, 1813– May 15, 1913. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, p. 215.

personal data
SURNAME	Hülsen, Bernhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hülsen, Bernhard Franz Karl Adolf Gottvertrau von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently lieutenant general and leader of the Hülsen Freikorps
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cosel , district of Cosel
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1950
Place of death	Potsdam

[1] Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Noble houses A. Volume XXVII, p. 562, Volume 132 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0832-9 , p. 369.

[2] Georg Tessin : German Associations and Troops, 1918–1939. Old army. Volunteer associations. Reichswehr. Army. Air force. National Police . Edited on the basis of the documents of the Federal Archives-Military Archives; published with the support of the Federal Archives and the Defense Research Working Group . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , p. 191 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[Bock-3] Werner von Bock: list of the officers of the 2nd Guard Regiment on foot. June 19, 1813– May 15, 1913. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, p. 215.