Eduard von Liebert

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Eduard von Liebert

Eduard Wilhelm Hans Liebert , von Liebert since 1900 (born April 16, 1850 in Rendsburg , † November 14, 1934 in Tscheidt ) was a Prussian officer , most recently General of the Infantry and Governor of German East Africa . He was also a member of the Reichstag from 1907 to 1914 and also worked as a military writer.

Life

origin

He came from a Silesian family and was the son of the Prussian major in the General Staff Friedrich Wilhelm Liebert (1805-1853) and his wife Friederike Karoline, née Schindler (1829-1908).

Military career

After his education in the cadet corps , Liebert was transferred on June 13, 1866 as portepee - ensign to the 3rd Posen Infantry Regiment No. 58 of the Prussian Army in Glogau . In the German War he took part in the battles near Nachod , Skalitz and Königgrätz , as well as the battles near Schweinschädel and Gradlitz . During the war he was promoted to second lieutenant. From October 1, 1869 he was adjutant of the 2nd Battalion. In this position Liebert took part during the war against France in 1870/71 in the enclosure of Paris , the battles at Wörth (in which he was slightly wounded), at Mont Valérien , as well as the battles at Malmaison and Garches . For his achievements he received the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

From June 20 to September 19, 1872 Liebert served as an adjutant of the 20th Infantry Brigade in Poznan and graduated from the War Academy for three years from October 1, 1872 . During this time he was commanded from July 23 to September 30, 1874 to serve with Posenen Field Artillery Regiment No. 20 . From July 1 to July 21, 1875, he took part in a training tour of the General Staff of the V Army Corps and was assigned to lead foreign officers during the maneuver on July 6. On January 1, 1876, Liebert was transferred to the war school in Hanover as a teacher under position à la suite . From January 3 to February 20, 1877, he was assigned to serve with the King's Uhlan Regiment (1st Hannoversches) No. 13 . In the following year Liebert was assigned to participate in a training trip of the X. Army Corps from August 1 to 12, 1878. Left in his command, Liebert was placed à la suite of the 1st Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 13 on August 15, 1878 and promoted to captain on September 17 .

Together with the cartographer Julius Iwan Kettler and the tropics-experienced "Consul GA Wilhelmy", the Hanoverian senior teacher Mejer and the physics professor Gustav von Quintus-Icilius , the war school teacher Eduard Liebert was one of the twelve citizens who initially died on September 27, 1878 formed a "Provisional Committee for the Foundation of a Geographical Society in Hanover ".

As a captain, Liebert was in command of the Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment No. 73 from January 3 to February 19, 1879 . This was followed by his transfer to the General Staff and from December 23, 1880, a job as a teacher at the Metz War School . Left in his command in the General Staff, he was transferred to the Army General Staff on April 2.

Liebert was from January 1, 1882 to December 4, 1884 a member of the Upper Military Examination Commission . Since April 18, 1882 he was the General Staff of III. Army Corps has been transferred to Berlin . From November 1, 1882 to September 30, 1884 he worked as a teacher at the Military Academy. From September 13, 1882 he was a member of the study commission for the war schools. He was transferred to the Great General Staff on December 13, 1883.

In the second Hanseatische Infantry Regiment. 76 to Hamburg Liebert was transferred on 4 December 1884, the chief of the 3rd Company appointed before he was set back on December 5, 1885 the transfer to the General Staff in the General Staff of the Army . As first general staff officer , he was transferred to the general staff of the 12th Division in Neisse on December 29, 1885, and on February 20, 1886, he was promoted to the superfluous major . Relocated to the General Staff on September 20, 1887, Liebert was also a teacher at the War Academy from November 1, 1887 to February 6, 1891.

He was entrusted with the leadership of the Sultan's embassy of Zanzibar from September 25 to October 9, 1889. From April 1, 1889 to July 1, 1890, he was appointed to represent the Reich Commissioner for East Africa .

On February 7, 1891, Liebert was transferred to the General Staff of the X Army Corps in Hanover as the first general staff officer, and on May 16, 1891 was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In this position he received the rank and fees of a department head on March 29, 1892 . While maintaining this command and taking up the position à la suite of the General Staff of the Army, he was transferred to the secondary budget of the General Staff on May 17, 1892, before Liebert was finally appointed Chief of the General Staff of the X Army Corps on July 28, 1892. At the same time he was promoted to colonel from May 14, 1894, he was in command of the grenadier regiment "Prince Carl of Prussia" (2nd Brandenburg) No. 12 stationed in Frankfurt (Oder) . From June 9 to July 4, 1896, he performed "honorary service" to the Chinese viceroy Li Hung-Chang .

Major General Liebert as Governor of German East Africa

Liebert left the Prussian Army on December 3, 1896 for the purpose of serving as governor in German East Africa and entered colonial service under position à la suite of the Schutztruppe for German East Africa . For the duration of the leave of absence of Lieutenant Colonel Lothar von Trotha , he was also entrusted with the business of the commander of the protection force on February 16, 1897. Promoted to major general on July 20, the business of commander of the Schutztruppe was transferred to him on September 22, 1897 until further notice. On January 1, 1900, Liebert was raised to the hereditary nobility by Wilhelm II . As governor of the colony, he mainly caused the resentment there through massive tax increases.

On March 13, 1901, Liebert was re-employed in the Prussian Army after he was relieved of his positions as a result of the unrest he had caused in German East Africa. First he was with the officers of the army, on April 9th ​​he was entrusted with the leadership of the 6th Division in Brandenburg and, with his promotion to lieutenant general, on May 18th, 1901, he was appointed commander. In approval of his resignation letter, Liebert was put up for disposal on April 7, 1903 with the statutory pension .

After the outbreak of the First World War , Liebert was reactivated on October 4, 1914 and initially deployed as Commander of Lodz . As early as November 7th, he was removed from this post and his mobilization provision lifted. It was not until January 14, 1915 that he was reactivated again and appointed commander of the 15th Reserve Division , with which he was subsequently used on the Western Front during the autumn battle in Champagne . In this position Wilhelm II gave him the character of General of the Infantry on January 27, 1916 . The patent for this rank then received Liebert with the acquisition as leader of the General Command for. b. V. No. 54 on February 25, 1917. With this Liebert was involved with the 7th Army in the successful defensive battles on the Aisne and was awarded the order Pour le Mérite for his achievements on June 6, 1917 . Shortly afterwards, on June 17, he was removed from his post because he had exceeded the age limit, and Liebert was given the Order of the Crown, First Class with Swords, in his final retirement.

Politician

In 1904 Liebert became the founding chairman of the Reich Association against Social Democracy in Berlin , a member of the main management of the Pan-German Association , a member of the board of the German Colonial Society and in 1909 was one of the initiators of the right-wing conservative German Women's Association . From 1907 to 1914 he was a member of the Reichstag as a member of the Reich and Free Conservative Party (RFKP).

In the Pan-German Association, Liebert championed the racial theories several times . At the Association Day on May 27 and 28, 1904 in Lübeck, he gave a lecture on “The Future Development of Our Colonies”, in which he spoke out against alleged “racial corruption” in the German colonies. At the Erfurt Association Day on September 6, 1912, he attacked the legal validity of "mixed marriages" in the colonies, which had been decided by the Reichstag, or described the application in this regard as "striking every racial feeling and racial pride in the face".

Shortly before the Prussian mansion was dissolved, Liebert was appointed a member in 1918.

Liebert was also active as a military writer and occasionally used the pseudonym "Samarticus".

In 1929 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party .

family

Liebert married Helene Dittmer on April 27, 1876 in Kiel . She was the daughter of the wine wholesaler and businessman Ernst Dittmer (1856–1898). The daughter Elsa (* 1877) emerged from the marriage and married the bathing commissioner Hans von Moser. After the death of his wife, he married her sister Maria Charlotte (* 1872) in Dar es Salaam in 1899 .

Publications

  • Germany hero times 1870/71. Slaughter descriptions. 1914.
  • Field Marshal Neithardt von Gneisenau. A picture of life. 1914.
  • Field Marshal Count Hellmuth von Moltke. A life sketch. 1914.
  • From an eventful life. Memories. 1925.

Awards (as of 1902)

References

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2516-2 , pp. 339-341.
  • Eduard von Liebert. In: Military weekly paper. On the occasion of his 50th military anniversary. No. 102/103 of June 10, 1916, pp. 2431-2432.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Part B 1941, p. 338. Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1941.
  • Acta Borussica , Volume 9 (1900–1909) (PDF file; 2.74 MB)
  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume I: A-L. Bernard & Graefe publishing house. Berlin 1935, pp. 669-670.
  • Horst Founder:  Liebert, Eduard von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 487 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Harry von Rège : Officer master list of the infantry regiment No. 76. Mauke. Hamburg 1902. OCLC 252978009 , pp. 117-119.
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1908, second year. P.651

Web links

Commons : Eduard von Liebert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography
  2. ^ Adolf Arnold : Hundred Years of Geographical Society in Hanover 1878–1978 , in Wolfgang Eriksen , Adolf Arnold (ed.): Hanover and its surroundings. Festschrift to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Geographical Society in Hanover 1878 - 1978 (= yearbook of the Geographical Society in Hanover , 1978), Hanover: Selbstverlag, 1978, pp. 1–17; here: pp. 1–3
  3. ↑ Volume VIII. No. 77. Latest news. Responsible editor: O. Hammann. Berlin, Tuesday October 1, 1889.
  4. ↑ Li Hung Chang. In: Teltower Kreisblatt. Berlin State Library. Edition dated June 16, 1896.
  5. ↑ Colonel Liebert. Governor of German East Africa. In: From Lübeck's towers . Volume 6, issue from Saturday, December 19, 1896.
  6. ↑ The noble line of Liebert died out with the marriage of his daughter, as he had no male offspring.
  7. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus. The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923. Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-87473-000-X , p. 37.
  8. ↑ a b c d e Harry von Rège: Officer list of the infantry regiment No. 76. Mauke. Hamburg 1902, pp. 118-119.
personal data
SURNAME Liebert, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liebert, Eduard Wilhelm Hans von (full name); Liebert, Eduard; Sarmaticus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer, most recently general of the infantry, politician (FKP, NSDAP), MdR and military writer, governor of German East Africa
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1934
Place of death Tscheidt