Ferdinand of Notz

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Ferdinand Wilhelm Robert Alexander Franz von Notz (born September 21, 1870 in Cologne , † February 18, 1953 in Ratzeburg ) was a German officer and military and regional writer.

Life

Ferdinand von Notz came from a Prussian officer family. He was the fourth child and the third son of Major Franz von Notz (* 1831), commander of the non-commissioned school in Biebrich , who was aggregated to the 3rd Guard Regiment on foot at the beginning of the Franco-German War and a month before Ferdinand was born in the battle of Gravelotte had fallen on August 18, 1870, and his wife Marie, née von Frankenberg, a daughter of General Robert von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf . When he was baptized on November 28, 1870, his godparents included Princess Carl von Prussia ( Marie von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach ) and his grandparents, Lieutenant General von Frankenberg and his wife, as well as Colonel von Notz. It was named after his uncle Ferdinand von Notz, who fell as Prime Lieutenant in the Emperor Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 in the Battle of Königgrätz on July 3, 1866. His other uncle, Captain Friedrich von Notz (* 1833), also died of cholera in the 1866 campaign . Ferdinand's older brother was named after him, Friedrich Wilhelm von Notz (born January 18, 1867 in Jülich ). He died on August 25, 1914 as a major and battalion commander in the infantry regiment "Prince Carl" (4th Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 118 as a result of being wounded in the battle of Neufchâteau .

From Michaelis 1876 to Easter 1882 Ferdinand attended the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin.

Following the family tradition, he joined the Prussian Army and received his patent on March 22, 1888 as a second lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 143 in Strasbourg . In 1896/97 he was sent to the war school in Kassel . On September 10, 1898, he became a first lieutenant . He served as regimental adjutant and from 1903 as adjutant to the commander of the 29th Infantry Brigade in Aachen , first Major General Florian Fulda , then Major General Karl Rinck von Baldenstein . On September 15, 1904, he was promoted to captain. In 1908 he came as a company commander to the 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109 in Karlsruhe . On October 1, 1912 he became major and as a corps adjutant of Friedrich von Scholtz to XX. Army Corps in Olsztyn . 25 years later, Notz published a biography of Scholtz with the subtitle A German Soldier's Life in Great Times .

During the First World War in 1915 he took over command of the Jäger Regiment No. 9, which was newly established in Galicia at the end of August . With him he was deployed in Albania and on the Macedonia front. When the Balkan front collapsed in September 1918, he was assigned to General Command 61 and held with around 1,000 soldiers as " Detachement v. Notz ”a bridgehead south of the Cerna ( Crna Reka ) near Dunje southeast of Prilep until September 21 . Then the retreat began, initially on mountain paths, northwards via Skopje , Kumanovo and Vranje . Notz published his notes on it in 1922 with the title Deutsche Anabasis 1918 , based on Xenophon .

After the end of the First World War, Notz, now a colonel , was active in so - called self - protection during the uprisings in Upper Silesia .

The family moved from Karlsruhe to the Duchy of Lauenburg , initially to an estate in Lehmrade . However, the attempt to practice agriculture failed. Another move followed to Ratzeburg , where the Villa Interlaken (today the location of the Seehof ) became his new home. In 1924, Notz became the founding chairman of the Ratzeburg branch of the Stahlhelm . As an author, he was now mainly concerned with local history. His book about the Ratzeburg Cathedral , which was published in 1932, had the subtitle a victory monument of Christian faith, Nordic spirit and German heroic blood .

He was married to Helga Wilhelmine Melanie, née von Cancrin (* 1883), since June 20, 1908. The couple's son of the same name, born in 1909, studied medicine, including in Rostock, and died at the age of 33 in World War II. Friedhelm von Notz is a grandson, Börries von Notz and Konstantin von Notz are great-grandchildren of Ferdinand von Notz.

His grave in the Ratzeburg military cemetery on Seekenberg is a listed building.

Awards

Works

  • German Anabasis 1918: a retreat from the Bulgarian collapse in Macedonia. Berlin: [DOB-Verlag] - [Leipzig]: [EF Steinacker] [1922] digitized , Berlin State Library
  • A street fight in peace. Memories of the " Hau -rawall" in Karlsruhe on July 22, 1907 , 1926 ( online version ).
  • Comment on Wilhelm Raupp: Im Strom. A spiritual tragedy in five pictures , in: Braunschweiger Landeszeitung of March 17, 1926 ( online version ).
  • Ansverus the apostle and martyr of Lauenburg in history, legend, stone and images. Ratzeburg: Lauenburgischer Heimatverlag 1929
  • The Ratzeburg Cathedral. Ratzeburg: Lauenburgischer Heimatverlag [1932]
  • General v. Scholtz, a German soldier's life in great times. Berlin: Siegismund 1937
  • Contributions to the magazine Lauenburgische Heimat (“Altesequence” 1925–1940), ed. from the Heimatbund and Geschichtsverein Herzogtum Lauenburg e. V .:
    • 1928: Till Eulenspiegel's tombstone ( online version )
    • 1929: The Apostle Altar in Ratzeburg Cathedral: A. The Altar Shrine B. The Altar Wings C. The Passion Table (online version Part 1 ; Part 2 )
    • 1929: The chapels and crypts of the Saxon dukes in Ratzeburg Cathedral ( online version )
    • 1929: The knight's armor in Ratzeburg Cathedral ( online version )
    • 1930/31: Old wall paintings of the Ratzeburg Cathedral (online version Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 )
    • 1930: Der Über-Faust and Goldmacher zu Ratzeburg ( online version )
    • 1930: Ratzeburg cathedral stories: 1. The ear of Dionys 2. Of haunted figures, ghosts and the walled-in nun in the Ratzeburg cathedral cloister 3. Truth and poetry underground (online version Part 1 ; Part 2 )
    • 1931: The Gothic paintings and their inscriptions in the cloister of the Ratzeburg Cathedral ( online version )

literature

  • Christian Lopau: places of mourning, places of remembrance. A guide to the Ratzeburg cemeteries . Reprint from issue 173/2006 of the magazine Lauenburgische Heimat , ed. from the Heimatbund and Geschichtsverein Herzogtum Lauenburg e. V., especially p. 13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical dates according to Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German armies 1815-1939. Volume 2: The staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as jäger and MG battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 978-3-7648-1782-4 , p. 146 .
  2. ↑ Hugo von Kathen: The 3rd Guard Regiment on foot. 1860 to 1890. Berlin: Mittler 1891, p. 275
  3. ↑ Baptism entry in the church register of the garrison parish Cologne-Deutz , accessed via ancestry.com on November 27, 2018
  4. ↑ Otto Kübler : Memories from the first 25 years of the establishment's existence. School program for 1883, p. 23.
  5. ↑ Complete list of seniority (seniority list) of officers of the royal Prussian army, the XIII. (Royal Württemb.) Army corps and the imperial protection troops. 34 (1891), p. 108.
  6. ↑ The stations of his officer career essentially according to the rankings of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps.
  7. ↑ Army Ordinance Sheet 1908, p. 364. Under his command, two companies of the Baden body grenadiers intervened on July 22, 1907 against the crowd because of the legal proceedings against the lawyer Carl Hau in Karlsruhe (" Hau riot ").
  8. ^ Honorary ranking list of the former German Army based on the ranking lists from 1914 with the changes that have occurred in the meantime. Published by the German Officers Association, Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1926, p. 79.
  9. ↑ Bernhard von Hülsen : The struggle for Upper Silesia: Upper Silesia and its self-protection. Berger's literary man. Büro, Stuttgart 1922, p. 55.
  10. ↑ a b Von Notz speaks about the family , Lübecker Nachrichten of June 28, 2016, accessed on November 12, 2018
  11. ^ Hansjörg Zimmermann: Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten: A contribution to the political culture of the Weimar Republic in the Duchy of Lauenburg. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 131 (2006), pp. 103–132, here p. 106
  12. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  13. ↑ See list of cultural monuments in Ratzeburg
  14. ↑ Order according to the ranking of the royal Prussian army 1914, p. 108; it is very likely that he received other awards during the First World War.
personal data
SURNAME Notz, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Notz, Ferdinand Wilhelm Robert Alexander Franz von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and military and regional writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1953
Place of death Ratzeburg