Ernst von Wrisberg

Ernst August Ludwig Konrad von Wrisberg (born August 2, 1862 in Schwerin , † April 1, 1927 in Berlin ) was a Prussian major general and director of the General War Department .

Ernst von Wrisberg

Life

origin

Ernst was the son of the future Prussian Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Wrisberg (1828–1914) and his wife Dorothea, born von Zülow (1839–1878).

Military career

Wrisberg entered the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 as an ensign on April 10, 1884 . There he served as a company commander after his promotion to captain and was then employed in the general staff . From 1903 to 1906 Wrisberg was a general staff officer of the 10th Division , then joined the V Army Corps as a major (from October 19, 1905) in the same function , and in 1908 he was transferred to the Prussian War Ministry . With the promotion to lieutenant colonel on October 1, 1912 Wrisberg became chief of the general staff of the XVII. Army Corps . After a year he returned to the War Ministry, where he held the post of chief of the 1st Army Department.

After the outbreak of World War I , Wrisberg was promoted to colonel on August 19, 1914 . In his role as head of department, he was largely responsible for the smooth implementation of the mobilization . Therefore, on March 25, 1915, Wrisberg was initially charged with taking on the business of the director of the General War Department. As such, he was responsible for supplying the fighting army with sufficient ammunition, weapons and other military equipment, for supplying them with the necessary replacement of people, horses and machines, and for handling all new and reclassifications. Wrisberg was named director on November 6 with promotion to major general.

On December 12, 1917, he took over command of the troops and served until January 15, 1918 as deputy leader of the 35th Reserve Infantry Brigade in Flanders . Then Wrisberg was commissioned to represent the commander of the 18th Reserve Division . In this position he was wounded on January 20, 1918 near Ypres . Wrisberg then returned home and took over the post of director of the war department. For his services to the preparation and implementation of the spring offensive , Wrisberg was awarded the order Pour le Mérite on April 8, 1918 by Wilhelm II .

After the war Wrisberg initially remained at his post, was made available in May 1919 and July 8, 1919 in approval of his leave request for disposition made. During the Kapp Putsch , all officers of the War Ministry were subordinate to him, with the exception of the military office.

From 1917 to 1919 he was Prussia's deputy representative to the Reichsrat and from 1920 to 1927 he was chairman of the German Ostmarkenverein . He was chairman of the board of trustees of the Central Deaconess House Bethanien in Berlin. At a memorial service for the birthday of the former Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , Wrisberg suffered a heart attack at the national monument , from which he died.

Since 1882 he was a member of the Corps Bremensia Göttingen .

Activities after the First World War

In the 1920s, Wrisberg tried to prove the thesis of the “stab in the back” in various publications. This took place in particular in his work Heer und Heimat from 1921.

family

Wrisberg married Marie Edle von der Planitz (* 1874) on April 5, 1900 in Berlin. She was a daughter of the Prussian general of the artillery Max von der Planitz (1834-1910).

Awards

Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with the loop

Order of the Crown III. class

Prussian service award cross

Knight's Cross II. Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion

Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV class with crown

Cross of Honor of the Order of the Griffin

Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Albrecht with a crown

Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class

literature

Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order »pour le mérite« in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 524-525.

Web links

Literature by and about Ernst von Wrisberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Newspaper article about Ernst von Wrisberg in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , p. 446, no. 3004.

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39 , 889

↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of Noble Houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1905, p. 611.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914, p. 9

personal data
SURNAME	Wrisberg, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wrisberg, Ernst August Ludwig Konrad von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1927
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , p. 446, no. 3004.

[2] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39 , 889

[3] Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of Noble Houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1905, p. 611.

[Rangliste1914-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914, p. 9