Bernhard von Hartz

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Bernhard Josef Maria von Hartz (born April 12, 1862 in Regensburg , † August 20, 1944 in Dorfen ) was a Bavarian infantry general .

Life

family

Hartz came from a family that was raised to the hereditary Bavarian nobility in 1825 ( Bernhard Joseph von Hartz ). He was the son of the later Bavarian lieutenant colonel Leonhard von Hartz and his wife Hildegart, née Litzlkirchner. His father had last served in the 13th Infantry Regiment . Hartz married Pauline Benzino on August 2, 1894. The marriage produced a son and a daughter.

Military career

After visiting the cadet corps , Hartz was transferred to the Bavarian Army's infantry body regiment as a portepeefähnrich . He graduated from the Munich War School , was then promoted to secondary lieutenant on April 9, 1884 and served from 1887 as adjutant to III. Battalions. From 1892 to 1895 Hartz, who in the meantime was promoted to Prime Lieutenant , graduated from the War Academy , which made him qualified for the General Staff. As a captain he was in command of the 12th Company from March 1897 , then came to the Central Office of the General Staff in 1899 and in the same year to the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps . In 1900 he was transferred to the War Ministry . Here Hartz worked in the Department of General Army Affairs. He also served as a member of the senior examinations committee for candidates for senior military administrative service. From 1903/04 to the General Staff of the 5th Division in Nuremberg , Hartz was reassigned to the Central Office of the General Staff on September 21, 1904 with his promotion to Major and to the General Staff in Berlin . Hartz was also an extra-budgetary military member of the Bavarian Senate at the Imperial Military Court for a period of two years . Left in his command with the Great General Staff, he was transferred to the Infantry Body Regiment on August 28, 1906 as a battalion commander. On October 1, 1906 he resigned in the troop service and commanded the III. Battalion. Subsequently appointed as a lieutenant colonel head of department at the Central Office of the General Staff, Hartz was again sent to the General Staff in Berlin. On January 24, 1910, he was assigned to lead the infantry body regiment, promoted Hartz to colonel on March 7, and finally appointed him commander of this regiment on March 26, 1910. During this service he was awarded the Cross of Merit of St. Michael on October 31, 1911 . Released from this command on September 30, 1912, Hartz was then appointed commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade and shortly thereafter promoted to major general. On March 27, 1913, he gave up the brigade and was once again assigned to the Great General Staff in Berlin. Hartz was thus one of the relatively few Bavarian generals who were repeatedly commanded there. King Ludwig III. honored his achievements in March 1914 by being awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown.

With the outbreak of the First World War , Hartz was ordered back to Munich and appointed senior quartermaster at the AOK of the 6th Army . As such, he took part in the border battles and the battle of Lorraine . He was then sent back to the General Staff and awarded Hartz the Military Merit Order II. Class with Swords on September 7, 1914 , and the Iron Cross II. And I. Class in October and November 1914 . Promoted to lieutenant general in May 1915 , Hartz was appointed commander of the 2nd Infantry Division on September 7, 1915 . He led these on the western front a . a. in the costly battles at La Bassée and Arras , around Verdun and on the Somme . Although formally commander of this division until February 8, 1917, Hartz was appointed Bavarian military plenipotentiary in the main headquarters on January 25, 1917 and was awarded the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with swords. He was released from this post on April 6, 1918 and was deputy leader of the General Command until May 10, 1918 . b. V. 57 . Subsequently appointed leader, Hartz took part in the trench warfare in Champagne until the end of the war .

After the armistice of Compiegne on 13 December 1918 relieved of his command, Hartz was in January 1919 with the character adopted as a general of the infantry in retirement.

literature

  • Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 462f.
  • Max Spindler (ed.), Walter Schärl: The composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806 to 1918. Michael Lassleben publishing house, Kallmütz / Opf. 1955, p. 255.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 463.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 138 of November 4, 1911. p. 3174.
  3. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 258.
  4. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 128 of September 29, 1914. p. 2733.
  5. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 144/145, 162 in 1914. pp. 3120, 3468.
  6. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 87 of January 24, 1918. p. 2183.
  7. ^ Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria Book of World Wars 1914-1918. Volume 1. Chr. Belser AG publishing house bookstore. Stuttgart 1930. p. 221.
personal data
SURNAME Hartz, Bernhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartz, Bernhard Josef Maria von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1944
Place of death Villages