Erich von Gündell

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Erich von Gündell

Erich Gustav Wilhelm Theodor Gündell , since 1901 von Gündell (born April 13, 1854 in Goslar , † December 23, 1924 in Göttingen ) was a Prussian infantry general in the First World War .

Life

origin

Erich was the only child of the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Adolph Gündell (1820–1898) and his first wife Aeone, née von Quistorp (1826–1854).

Military career

Gündell occurred on April 1, 1873 as an ensign in the 5th Thuringian Infantry Regiment. 94 of the Prussian army and was on 15 November 1873 Ensign appointed and on October 15, 1874 to second lieutenant promoted. As such he was from November 5, 1876 to May 31, 1881 Adjutant of the 1st Battalion. For further training Gündell was commanded from October 1, 1881 to July 21, 1884 at the War Academy and was promoted to Prime Lieutenant on October 17, 1883 . In the following years he served in his main regiment and was then assigned to the General Staff on April 1, 1887 and transferred here with his promotion to captain on March 22, 1888. There were then repeated assignments in the troop and staff service until Gündell was finally appointed on July 9, 1900 as a lieutenant colonel to the chief of the general staff of the East Asian Expeditionary Corps.

For his services, Gündell was elevated to the hereditary Prussian nobility on November 28, 1901 by Wilhelm II .

After the corps was dissolved, he was first reassigned to the General Staff and on November 5, 1901, he was assigned to the staff of the 1st Army Corps . Shortly thereafter, on November 14, 1901, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff. In this function, Gündell was promoted to colonel on April 22, 1902 and then on April 24, 1904, appointed commander of the infantry regiment "Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia" (2nd Magdeburgisches) No. 27 in Halberstadt . On February 22, 1906, Gündell was given the rank of brigade commander and was entrusted with the management of business as chief quartermaster in the general staff. With his promotion to major general on June 14, 1906, he was also appointed to this post. Gündell served as a military delegate at the 2nd Hague Peace Conference in 1907 . In addition to his work in the General Staff, he was also a member of the study commission of the War Academy from September 26, 1908.

As lieutenant general , Gündell returned to service on October 27, 1910 and became commander of the 20th division in Hanover . After three years he handed over the command to his successor, Alwin Schmundt, and then became director of the War Academy in Berlin . In the same year Gündell submitted his resignation and was put up for disposition on September 4, 1913 , conferring the character of General of the Infantry .

With the outbreak of the First World War, Gündell was used again and appointed commanding general of the 5th Reserve Corps . With the corps he fought in association with the 5th Army in the battle of Longwy and then took part in the enclosure of Verdun after further battles . Gündell received the patent for his rank on September 2, 1914 . It was not until February 1916 that he and his corps from the trench warfare in the Battle of Verdun went over to attack. During the fighting for the village and Fort Vaux , his large association suffered heavy losses and finally had to be pulled from the front in mid-June. It was then moved to Champagne for rest and refreshment . There Gündell was awarded the order Pour le Mérite in recognition of his achievements during the fighting off Verdun on August 28, 1916 . On September 3, 1916 he was appointed Commander in Chief of Army Division B in Upper Alsace. Gündell held this position until the end of the war. At the same time he was from October 1918 at the headquarters in Spa chairman of the armistice commission of the Supreme Army Command. However, the management of negotiations with the enemy side was entrusted to a civilian, the center politician and State Secretary Matthias Erzberger .

After the Armistice of Compiègne and the demobilization , Gündell's mobilization provision was repealed on December 23, 1918.

philosopher

Erich von Gündell studied philosophy with Edmund Husserl , who valued him as a "significant intelligence". After the end of the First World War, Gündell received his doctorate in 1922 under Georg Misch on modern classifications of philosophical systems .

family

Gündell was married to Dora von Jacobi (* 1867), the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard von Jacobi . This marriage resulted in six children, including their son Walter , who made it to lieutenant general in World War II .

Awards

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 108, December 11, 1901, pp. 2849-2850.
  2. ↑ Quoted from a letter from Husserl to his brother Heinrich of October 4, 1914, edited in: Nicolas de Warren, Thomas Vongehr (ed.), Philosophers at the Front. Phenomenology and the First World War, Leuven 2017, p. 153.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1913. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1913, p. 528.
personal data
SURNAME Gündell, Erich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gündell, Erich Gustav Wilhelm Theodor von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1924
Place of death Goettingen