Franz Gustav von Wandel

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Franz Gustav Wandel , from Wandel since 1913 , (born January 30, 1858 in Danzig , † December 29, 1921 in Bonn ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

After school he joined the Prussian Army as an officer candidate and was promoted to Fahnenjunker in 1875 . From 1893 to 1895 he was captain and company commander in the infantry regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (East Frisian) No. 78 . After working in the War Ministry from 1895 to 1900, he became battalion commander and then in 1902 chief of a department in the General Staff . In 1903 he was appointed head of a department in the War Ministry and then in 1905 as chief of the General Staff of the XV. Army Corps in Strasbourg .

In 1907 he was promoted to colonel and at the same time head of the Army Department in the War Ministry. He then became director of the Ministry's General War Department in 1909 and, as such, was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1912 . In 1913 he became governor of Cologne and on June 16, 1913, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, he was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility .

After the beginning of World War I , Wandel was appointed Deputy Minister of War on September 1, 1914. “Since the minister at the time, Erich von Falkenhayn, was almost always at the headquarters, the management of the ministry remained in fact in von Wandels hands, who was an excellent administrator. He got on well with the workers' associations, less with the industrialists and the ADW. ”The emerging anti-Semitism in the Prussian officer corps was countered by change. He categorically rejected any rumors about Jewish shirking and proposals for Jewish statistics. He was responsible for the decree "Supplementing Officers During the War, of September 29, 1914", which facilitated access to the rank of officer (also for Jewish soldiers). As an employee of War Ministers Erich von Falkenhayn and Adolf Wild von Hohenborn , he instructed the upper military authorities on June 26, 1915 to take more decisive action against the agitation of left war opponents . In August 1916, the Supreme Army Command was replaced by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff , and Franz Gustav von Wandel's days in the War Ministry were numbered. On September 29, 1916, von Wandel resigned. In 1916, when he retired, he was promoted to general of the infantry . When the Jewish census took place, he was no longer in office.

In August 1915, Wandel was awarded the Order of the Crown, First Class with Swords, for his services .

Wandel married Katharina Schulz on August 20, 1896 in Wiesbaden (* February 25, 1873 in Kassel ; † unknown). The couple had a daughter, Margarete.

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  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 81 of June 19, 1913, p. 1863.
  2. ↑ Jacob Rosenthal: The honor of the Jewish soldier: the Jewish census in the First World War and its consequences. Frankfurt am Main, 2007, p. 58.
  3. ↑ Jacob Rosenthal: The honor of the Jewish soldier. 2007, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Chronik.net June 1915
  5. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 162 of September 9, 1915, p. 3845.
personal data
SURNAME Change, Franz Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wandel, Franz Gustav (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1921
Place of death Bonn