Ernst von Bacmeister

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Ernst von Bacmeister

Max Ernst August Bacmeister , since 1913 of Bacmeister , (* 28. November 1853 in Bielefeld ; † 17th January 1938 in Bückeburg ) was a Prussian general of the infantry in the First World War .

Life

origin

Ernst was the son of the Prussian lieutenant colonel Lucas Heinrich Bacmeister (1820–1884) and his wife Luise, née Poggenpohl (1826–1885), descendants of the East Frisian line of the Bacmeister family founded by Eberhard Bacmeister .

Military career

After attending school and the cadet corps, Bacmeister joined the 5th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 53 on February 28, 1872 as a secondary lieutenant . From March 19, 1875 he acts as adjutant of the 2nd Battalion, then from April 22, 1878 as regimental adjutant and as such Bacmeister was on March 22, 1881 prime lieutenant and on May 26, 1887 captain . As such he was an adjutant in the Prussian War Ministry between 1892 and 1893 . After his promotion to major in 1893, he was reassigned to the troops. In 1900 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and as such in 1901 he was appointed head of a department in the Prussian War Ministry. With his promotion to colonel in 1905, Bacmeister was appointed commander of the infantry regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (East Frisian) No. 78 .

In 1907 Bacmeister was promoted to major general and as such commander of the 84th Infantry Brigade in Lahr . From March 3 to 21, 1910, as Lieutenant General, he was briefly in command of the 39th Division in Colmar , then was transferred to the Prussian War Ministry as Director of the Supply and Justice Department (CD), where he was also a deputy representative to the Federal Council . Bacmeister was also a chairman of the management of the Great Military Orphanage in Potsdam. Under awarding of the character as General of Infantry was Bacmeister on 18 April 1913 to the disposition made and on June 16, 1913 on the occasion of the 25th jubilee of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Into the hereditary Prussian nobility raised .

At the beginning of the First World War, Bacmeister was initially active in the Central Committee of the Red Cross in Berlin. On September 1, 1914, he was assigned to the commanding general of the Deputy General Command of the VI. Army Corps was deployed in Wroclaw. He then took over on August 7, 1916 the 79th Reserve Division , which he u. a. led at the Battle of Vimy in 1917 . Canadian units of the British expeditionary forces succeeded in relieving the German army of most of the height.

Under awarded the Red Eagle , First Class with Oak Leaves and Swords was recalled Bacmeister on 10 March 1918 by his post and lifted his mobilization determination. He then acted until the end of the war as General Commissioner for the detention of German youth in the provinces of Brandenburg and Berlin.

family

He was married to Julie Charlotte Vogelsang (1854–1945), with whom he had a son and three daughters, who had died as a child. Three of his brothers also served in high positions in the Prussian army, including Major General Hugo Karl August Bacmeister .

Awards

literature

  • 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. 30–31.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 27-29.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 81 of June 19, 1913, p. 1865.
  2. ↑ Ernst von Bacmeister. Retrieved December 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Geoffrey Hayes, Michael Bechthold, Andrew Iarocci, Mike Bechthold: Vimy Ridge: a Canadian reassessment. 2007, ISBN 978-0-88920-508-6 , p. 230.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1912 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1912, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Bacmeister, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacmeister, Ernst August Max von; Bacmaster Ernst August Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1938
Place of death Buckeburg