Cai Theodor lady

Cai Friedrich Theodor Dame (born January 9, 1851 in Wesselburen , † February 4, 1937 in Konstanz ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Cai Dame was the eldest child of Wilhelm August Dame (1814–1888) and his wife Johanna Maria, née Prien (1821–1910).

Military career

After attending the general-school in Flensburg stepped Dame during the war against France on 29 July 1870 as a one-year volunteer in the Field Artillery Regiment. 9 of the Prussian army and participated in the siege of Metz and the battles of Orléans , Beaugency and Le Mans . Under promotion to Portepeefähnrich Dame was built in 1872 in the post-war mid-August 6. Baden Infantry Regiment. 114 transferred to Konstanz and was promoted to mid-April 1873 lieutenant . For further training, he graduated from the War Academy in Berlin for three years . After his successful graduation, Dame was promoted to prime lieutenant in mid-April 1883 and rose as a captain to chief of the 12th company of his regiment on March 22, 1889 . On December 15, 1890, with effect from January 1, 1891, he was sent to Berlin for six months to service the side budget of the Great General Staff . Under extension of his command Dame was his regiment on June 29, 1891 aggregated and mid-November 1891 position à la suite einrangiert into the next budget of the General Staff.

With effect from December 18, 1894, he took over the management of Section III b in the General Staff, replacing the previous chief Major Mueller. On May 20, Dame was promoted to major on the General Staff. He carried out his duties as head of Section III b until the end of 1900 and then became battalion commander in the 4th Baden Infantry Regiment "Prinz Wilhelm" No. 112 on October 18 of that year . His successor in Section III b was Major Karl Brose , who continued the realignment of the military intelligence service begun by Dame.

This was followed from May 17, 1902 to February 9, 1905 as a lieutenant colonel in the staff of the infantry regiment "Graf Schwerin" (3rd Pomeranian) No. 14 in Bromberg . On February 12, 1905, Dame resigned from the army and then joined the protection force for German South West Africa . Here he was initially active as a stage commander and in this capacity was promoted to colonel on May 18, 1905 . The situation he encountered on site was more than precarious. Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha , who at that time was still in command of the protection force, had tried with draconian and inhuman measures to take action against the African tribes residing in the area and thus to break their resistance against the colonists . His military goal was to "annihilate the enemy" ( annihilation order ) without fail. In the decisive battle on August 11, 1904 at Waterberg , he had to accept a clear defeat. He put down the subsequent uprising of the Namas and their Herero friends in October with the full force of the militarily superior, using the most cruel methods that are now considered genocide . With the replacement of Lothar von Trothas in the German Reichstag, Dame assumed temporary command of the protection force on November 19, 1905 . At the side of the new governor Friedrich von Lindequist , who was also appointed at short notice, he succeeded in small steps, at least somewhat to compensate for the confused situation. However, when it came to the decision of the future commander in chief, the similarly controversial Colonel Berthold von Deimling was preferred to him, despite the good results he had achieved through his leadership . This disappointed him considerably, as he then recorded in his personal notes. Thereupon he had to give up the acting office on June 23, 1906. Deimling arrived in Africa on July 5, 1906 and took over the post of commanding officer from Dame.

On April 14th, Dame resigned from colonial service with effect from April 30th, 1907, and on May 1st, 1907, she was employed again in the Prussian army as commander of the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 in Düsseldorf . As such, he initiated the colonial war memorial for the regiment there in 1908 . When he was appointed commander of the 26th Infantry Brigade , he was promoted to major general on August 19, 1909 . In approval of his resignation request , Dame was put up for disposition on April 22, 1912, conferring the character of Lieutenant General with the statutory pension .

With the beginning of the First World War , Dame was reused as a zD officer according to the mobilization regulations and was given command of the deputy 55th Infantry Brigade in Karlsruhe . On December 1, 1914, he took over the Guard Replacement Brigade in the Verdun sector on the Western Front . From July 1 to October 4, 1916 he was commander of the Deputy 7th Infantry Brigade in Bromberg and then, with the establishment of the 403rd Infantry Brigade, commander of this large formation in the 205th Infantry Division on the Eastern Front . With the revocation of his mobilization provision, he handed over command to Colonel Friedrich Krumme on July 20, 1918.

Cai Theodor Dame died on February 4, 1937 in Konstanz.

family

Dame married Jenny Hitzenberger in 1881, with whom he had four children.

literature

• History of the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1911, Annex, pp. 124–125.
• Hilmar-Detlef Brückner: The NO of Section III b of the Great General Staff of the Prussian Army 1906–1918. In: Jürgen W. Schmidt: Secret Service, Military and Politics in Germany. Ludwigsfelder Verlagsanstalt, 2008.
• Johannes Ehrengruber: Secret and intelligence services of the German Empire from the outbreak of the First World War. grin Verlag, Munich 2013.
• Klaus Walter Frey: Colonel Walter Nicolai, head of the German Military Intelligence Service III B in the General Staff (1913-1918). In: Jürgen W. Schmidt: Secret Service, Military and Politics in Germany. Ludwigsfelder Verlagsanstalt, 2008.
• Jonas Kreinbaum: A sad fiasco. Colonial concentration camps in southern Africa 1900–1908. Hamburger Edition HIS Verlag, Hamburg 2015.
• Walter Nicolai: Insights into the intelligence service during the world war. H. Fikentscher Verlag, Leipzig 1937.
• Personnel sheet lady. Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, MSg 109/10858, in: Jürgen W. Schmidt: Against Russia and France. The German military secret service 1890–1914. Ludwigsfeld publishing house, 2009
• Jürgen W. Schmidt: Counter- espionage in the German Reich from 1890 to 1906. In: Jürgen W. Schmidt: Against Russia and France. The German military secret service 1890–1914. Ludwigsfeld publishing house, 2009.
• Jürgen W. Schmidt: Secret Service, Military and Politics in Germany. Ludwigsfelder Verlagsanstalt, 2008.
• Jürgen W. Schmidt: Against Russia and France. The German military secret service 1890–1914. Ludwigsfeld publishing house, 2009.
• Kirsten Zirkel: From militarist to pacifist: Political life and work of General Berthold von Deimling against the background of Germany's development from the German Empire to the Third Reich. Dissertation from Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Military estate holdings of Cai Friedrich Theodor Dame (until 1918) in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Department of the Main State Archives Stuttgart, holdings of military estates, holdings No. M 660/072 - here Theodor Dame (1851–1937) is written as “Dame, Friedrich Theodor Cai (or Kai) ”with the underlining Cai like a nickname
2. ↑ Jürgen W.Schmidt: About the use of intelligence and secret services. In: Jürgen W. Schmidt: Against Russia and France. The German military secret service 1890-1914. Ludwigsfelder Verlagshaus, 2009, p. 536 f.
3. ↑ Jonas Kreinbaum: A sad fiasco. Colonial concentration camps in southern Africa 1900–1908. Hamburger Edition HIS Verlag, Hamburg 2015.
4. ↑ Kirsten Zirkel: From militarist to pacifist: Political life and work of General Berthold von Deimling against the background of the development of Germany from the German Empire to the Third Reich. Dissertation from Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf 2006, p. 90 ff.