Edwin von Stülpnagel

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Edwin Ottomar von Stülpnagel (born November 24, 1876 in Berlin , † March 6, 1933 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the infantry in the Weimar Republic .

Life

family

Edwin was the son of the Prussian Colonel Otto von Stülpnagel (1822–1899) and his wife Ida Michaelis (1856–1909).

Stülpnagel married Mamie Bareiß, widowed from his first marriage on February 16, 1928 in Stuttgart (born August 16, 1891 in Göppingen ; † July 3, 1981 in Stuttgart), the daughter of the factory owner and councilor Otto Bareiß and Hattie Seipp.

He was the older brother of the later General of the Aviators and Infantry Otto von Stülpnagel (1878-1948).

Military background

Stülpnagel occurred on 10 June 1893 as a cadet in the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot in Berlin and was there on October 18, 1894 on the second lieutenant promoted after the war school in Glogau had visited. In 1902 he was assigned to the War Academy , and in autumn 1906 he was assigned to the General Staff , where he was promoted to captain on October 18, 1907 . In early 1909 he was appointed to the General Staff of III. Army Corps transferred. On October 1, 1911 he became company commander in the 4th Pomeranian Infantry Regiment "von Borcke" No. 21 . After two years he was transferred to the staff of the 16th Division as first general staff officer and was promoted to major on April 22, 1914 . In the First World War he received both Iron Crosses, on August 4, 1918 as Chief of the General Staff of VI. Reserve Corps the Pour le Mérite. In September 1918 he became head of the foreign department in the Supreme Army Command.

After the war he led various voluntary associations. In 1919 he was accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr as commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 17th Reichswehr Infantry Regiment. On November 30, 1920 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in Infantry Regiment 6 . As such, he joined the staff of the 4th Infantry Regiment on December 1, 1920 . There he was promoted to colonel on January 1, 1922 and appointed regimental commander on November 1, 1922 . From June 1, 1926 to December 31, 1928, from October 1, 1926 as major general , he was Infantry Leader V of the 5th Division in Stuttgart.

On November 1, 1928, he was promoted to lieutenant general as commander of the 4th division and commander of military district IV (Dresden) . Before Stülpnagel was officially retired from the Reichswehr on October 31, 1931, he was appointed General of the Infantry.

In 1932 he became the executive president of the Reich Board of Trustees for Youth Enhancement .

death

Edwin von Stülpnagel died in 1933 at the age of 56 in Berlin-Dahlem and was buried in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Awards

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War , Volume 3: P – Z, Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 382–383
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility (GHdA), noble houses A volume XVIII, page 426, volume 87 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1985, ISSN  0435-2408 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coburger Zeitung of October 7, 1932 , page 1, News in brief: President von Hindenburg ...
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 309.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin, p. 106
personal data
SURNAME Stülpnagel, Edwin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stülpnagel, Edwin Ottomar von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1933
Place of death Berlin-Dahlem