Eduard Kreuter

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Franz Maria Eduard Kreuter (born June 5, 1864 in Darmstadt , † September 15, 1929 in Wiesbaden ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

He was the son of Major a. D. Franz Kreuter and his wife Barbara, née Werle.

Military career

Kreuter visited the cadet corps and on April 16, 1881 was transferred to the 2nd Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment (Grand Duke) No. 116 as Portepeefähnrich. There he was promoted to secondary lieutenant on October 18, 1881 and from September 1888 to August 1891 he was in command as a company officer at the Biebrich NCO School. As Prime Lieutenant , Kreuter took part in the General Staff trip of the XI in July / August 1892 . Army Corps . In position à la suite of his regiment, he was transferred as a company commander to the Jülich non-commissioned officer school on November 18, 1893 . After being promoted to captain , Kreuter returned to the Biebrich NCO School from June 18, 1895 to October 17, 1897. Then he was appointed company commander in the infantry regiment "von Grolmann" (1. Posensches) No. 18 in Osterode. With the promotion to major Kreuter came on January 27, 1907 to the staff of the infantry regiment "von Alvensleben" (6th Brandenburgisches) No. 52 in Cottbus . From December 17, 1908 to April 17, 1913 he acted as commander of the III. Battalions. This was followed by his transfer to Saarlouis as a lieutenant colonel to the staff of the infantry regiment "Graf Werder" (4th Rheinisches) No. 30 .

With the outbreak of World War I , Kreuter's Association set up Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 30 in accordance with the mobilization plan. The new regiment was formed two battalions and an MG - Company and was the 32nd Reserve Infantry Brigade of the 15th Reserve Division assumed. As part of the 4th Army , Kreuter took part in the battles near Neufchâteau and the Marne . After the German retreat he was fighting with his regiment in the Champagne region . In the winter and autumn battles that followed, his association was able to assert itself against French attacks. In the meantime promoted to colonel , Kreuter took part in the Battle of the Somme from the end of August 1916 . For his achievements he was awarded the Order of the Crown, Second Class with Swords. On November 20, 1916 he gave up his regiment and briefly acted as commander of the 37th Landwehr Infantry Brigade. On January 2 and 3, 1917, Kreuter was entrusted with the command of the newly established 236th Infantry Division and was then in command of the 236th Infantry Brigade, which he commanded until the end of the war. After the Great Battle of France he was again in trench warfare in Flanders and was promoted to major general on July 15, 1918. When parts of his brigade threatened to break up during the defensive battles in the Champagne and Meuse , Kreuter was able to convince his troops to counterattack through his personal efforts and recapture the town of Romagne. For these achievements, Wilhelm II awarded him the Order of Pour le Mérite on October 14, 1918 . After the armistice in Compiègne , Kreuter returned the remnants of his large unit to his homeland and after the demobilization became commander of the security police in the Rhineland and Westphalia.

He was finally adopted on March 29, 1920. Until 1928 Kreuter shared the chairmanship of the State Association of Westphalia in the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, with the President of the Prussian Province of Westphalia, Ferdinand von Lüninck .

family

Kreuter was married to Julie, née von Tschudi.

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2516-2 , pp. 280-281.
  • Gerd Krüger: From the resident services to the steel helmet. The national combat organization “Westfalenbund” eV (1921–1924). In: Westphalian magazine. 147, 1997, pp. 405-432.
  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume I: A-L. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 628-629.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bodo Krüger: Master list of officers, medical officers and officials of the infantry regiment v. Alvensleben (6. Brandenburgisches) No. 52. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1912, p. 108.
  2. ^ Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the units and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Infantry, Volume 2: Reserve and Landwehr Infantry. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902526-52-6 , p. 47.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 95/96 of November 25, 1916, p. 2239.
personal data
SURNAME Kreuter, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreuter, Franz Maria Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1929
Place of death Wiesbaden