Erich von Tschischwitz
Erich Wilhelm Ludwig von Tschischwitz (born May 17, 1870 in Kulm ; † September 26, 1958 in Berlin ) was a German infantry general in the Reichswehr .
Life
Tschischwitz kicked of completed cadet training on 22 March 1889 as a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Regiment "Graf Kleist von Nollendorf" (1st West Prussian) no. 6 of the Prussian army and was on September 1, 1896 First Lieutenant , and on March 22, 1902 promoted to captain . At the same time as his promotion to major on September 10, 1908, he took over as commander of the 2nd Battalion in the 4th Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 157 in Brzeg .
With the outbreak of World War I and the mobilization , he came with his regiment to the front, was promoted to lieutenant colonel shortly afterwards on August 19, 1914 and at the end of October 1914 as chief of staff of the XXIII. Reserve Corps deployed. In this capacity he became a colonel on April 17, 1917 . In the further course of the war he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the 2nd Army from February 23, 1918 and from July 16, 1918 as commander of the 172nd Infantry Brigade .
After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and he initially held the post of inspector of the transport troops (In 6) in the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin. Here he was promoted to major general on April 1, 1920 . On February 1, 1923 he was appointed commander of the 2nd division in Stettin and in this function he was also commander of the military district II . A short time later, on April 1, 1923, he was promoted to lieutenant general . On February 1, 1927, he was transferred back to Berlin with the takeover as Commander-in-Chief of Group Command 1 and on November 1, 1927 he was promoted to General of the Infantry .
Tschischwitz was honored and retired from service on March 31, 1929.
In the spring of 1945, his two sons-in-law, Lieutenant General Gustav Heisterman von Ziehlberg and Major General Reinhold Gothsche, were sentenced to death by Nazi courts-martial for alleged defeatist statements and shot.
During his active service he had as a writer operated and co-author of numerous books on topics of the First World War.
Awards
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
-
Pour le Mérite with oak leaves
- Pour le Mérite on November 9, 1917
- Oak leaves on March 23, 1918
- Red Eagle Order IV class with crown
- Prussian Order of the Crown, 2nd class, with swords
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
- Prussian service award cross
- Officer's Cross of the Bavarian Order of Military Merit with Swords
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Albrecht with Swords
- Commander II class of the Frederick Order with swords
- Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
- Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross II. Class
- Hanseatic Cross Lübeck
- Order of the Iron Crown III. Class with the war decoration
- Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Class with the war decoration
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. 440-442.
- Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order Pour le Mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe Publishing House, Berlin 1935, pp. 432-434.
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich von Tschischwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Erich von Tschischwitz in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1930, p. 35.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tschischwitz, Erich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tschischwitz, Erich Wilhelm Ludwig von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German General of the Infantry of the Reichswehr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1958 |
| Place of death | Berlin |