Friedrich Ritter von Bogendörfer

Friedrich Bogendörfer , from 1918 Knight von Bogendörfer , (born May 5, 1869 in Büttelbronn , † January 4, 1945 in Nuremberg ) was a German major general in World War II .

Life

family

He was the son of the teacher Georg Bogendörfer and his wife Rosina, née Bacher. Bogendörfer married Elisabeth Gunzelmann on April 10, 1898. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

Military career

On October 1, 1887, Bogendörfer joined the 6th Infantry Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia" of the Bavarian Army in Amberg as a flag junior . There he was appointed ensign on April 13, 1888 , and his promotion to second lieutenant on December 12, 1889 . From May 1, 1895 to October 1, 1900, Bogendörfer acted as regimental adjutant and had in the meantime become first lieutenant on November 7, 1896 . At the same time as he was promoted to captain on October 28, 1904, he was appointed company commander in his regiment. From April 14 to May 18, 1907, Bogendörfer was assigned to the Lechfeld military shooting school. As a major (since March 7, 1912) he was transferred to the regimental staff on October 1, 1913.

With the outbreak of the First World War , Bogendörfer took over as commander of the III. 14th Battalion of the Reserve Infantry Regiment . He first fought in the Vosges and before Nancy - Epinal before the regiment in the middle Vosges in the trench warfare passed. From March 30 to July 1, 1916 he was briefly leader of the Wisch recruit depot and then again commander of the III. Battalions. On October 16, 1916, he was appointed commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment , which he led in Romania and later on the Western Front . At the same time, he was deputy commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade from September 4 to October 9, 1917 . On April 17, 1917, he had already been promoted to lieutenant colonel.

In recognition of his services, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order on September 28, 1918 and was allowed to call himself Knight of Bogendörfer from this point on because of the associated elevation into the personal nobility . Wilhelm II awarded him the order Pour le Mérite on November 8, 1918 . In addition, Bogendörfer was owner of both classes of the Iron Cross , the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords and the Order of Military Merit III. Class with swords.

After the end of the war, Bogendöfer was initially made available to the War Ministry from December 12, 1918 and on January 24, 1919 was appointed commander of the 17th Infantry Regiment "Orff" . After the regiment was demobilized , Bogendörfer came to the station commandantur Donauwörth and for a short time from April 20 to May 12, 1919 leader of a free corps with which he participated in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic . He was then accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr and appointed commander of the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 45 in Würzburg. In the course of the further reduction in the army, Bogendörfer resigned from active service on December 31, 1920 while being promoted to colonel .

On August 26, 1939 Arch villages was the disposal of the army provided and a day later on August 27, the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg , he received the character as a major general awarded. With the beginning of the Second World War it was initially not used. From March 1, 1940, Bogendörfer was with the Oberfeldkommandantur 589 and received the patent for his rank on November 1, 1941 . At the end of 1942 his mobilization provision was lifted and Bogendörfer finally retired.

Bogendörfer was an honorary member of the officers 'comradeship of the German-Völkisch Officers' Union.

literature

• Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Rövekamp: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 2: v. Blanckensee-v. Czettritz and Neuhauß. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2424-7 , pp. 112-113.
• Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor 1914-1918. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order, Munich 1966, pp. 265–266.