Friedrich von Esebeck

Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Julius Freiherr von Esebeck (born August 23, 1870 in Weimar , † May 25, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German infantry general .

Life

origin

His parents were the Prussian captain Friedrich von Esebeck (1835-1870) and his wife Anna, née von Pappenheim (* 1846).

Military career

Esebeck occurred on 1 April 1890 as a cadet in the 1st Guards Regiment walk the Prussian Army in Berlin and was there on Nov. 18, 1890 to Ensign appointed and on August 2, 1891 second lieutenant promoted. From January 1, 1900 to July 21, 1903, he was commanded for further training at the War Academy , where he became a first lieutenant on February 9, 1900 . From March 10 to April 1, 1904, he was assigned to the General Staff . With the promotion to captain Esebeck came to the general staff of the VII Army Corps in Munster . With effect from January 27, 1909, Esebeck was transferred back to his main regiment, where he subsequently served as company commander . At the same time he was promoted to major on October 1, 1912, he then joined the Great General Staff, served there for six months and then became First General Staff Officer of the XVI. Army Corps in Metz .

Esebeck was to hold this function after the outbreak of World War I and became Chief of the General Staff on April 1, 1915. From December 28, 1916 to April 10, 1917, Esebeck served as the first general staff officer of the German Crown Prince Army Group and then became chief of the general staff of Army Department A under the General of the Infantry von Mudra . The subordinate units were at that time in the Vosges and Lorraine . After Esebeck had become lieutenant colonel on January 27, 1918 , he was appointed chief of the general staff of the 9th Army on June 18, 1918 . Almost two months later, he was replaced and continued to serve as Chief of the General Staff of the Metz Governorate.

After the end of the war, Esebeck was first appointed as Chief of the General Staff of the VII Army Corps from January 1, 1919 . Ten months later he was appointed Chief of Staff of Military District VI in Münster and on May 16, 1920 Esebeck received the post of Commandant of Glatz . As such, he was promoted to colonel on October 1, 1920 . With the transfer to Frankfurt (Oder) on June 6, 1922, Esebeck was appointed commander of the 8th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment and promoted to major general on January 1, 1924 . After a year he was Infantry Leader III and on November 1, 1926, he was commander of the 1st Division . In this function he was also the commander in military district I based in Königsberg . On February 1, 1927, he was promoted to lieutenant general . Esebeck was released from his duties on September 30, 1929, and at the same time he was given the status of General of the Infantry, he was retired. On April 20, 1937, he was given permission to wear the uniform of the 8th Infantry Regiment.

Awards

Red Eagle Order IV class
Order of the Crown IV class
Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
Pour le Mérite on April 3, 1918
Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John

Prussian service award cross

Cross of Honor of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern

Bavarian Military Merit Order III. Class with swords

Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with Swords

Hanseatic Cross Hamburg

Braunschweig War Merit Cross, 2nd class

Commander of the House Order of the White Falcon with swords

Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order

Lippe War Merit Cross

Hanseatic Cross Lübeck

Cross of Honor of the Lippe House Order III. class

Iron crescent

literature

Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweig: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 372-373.
Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser. 1888. Eighth and thirtieth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1887, p. 197.

Web links

Friedrich von Esebeck 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 ^o ^p ^q ^r Reichswehr Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1924, p. 111.

personal data
SURNAME	Esebeck, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Esebeck, Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Julius Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH	23 August 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weimar
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1951
Place of death	Berlin

[Rangliste1924-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Reichswehr Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1924, p. 111.