Friedrich Samwer
Friedrich Samwer (born May 22, 1892 in Gotha , † April 30, 1953 in Tübingen) was a Prussian officer and chief forester in Magdeburg .
family
Friedrich was born the son of the city councilor and general director of the Gothaer Mutual Life Insurance Bank, Karl August Friedrich Samwer . On January 21, 1928, he married Vera, née von Menges. The politician Adolf Franz Samwer was his brother.
Life
Samwer studied law at the Université de Lausanne and forest sciences at the Royal Prussian Forest Academy Hannoversch Münden and the Forest Academy Eberswalde . During his studies in Lausanne he became a member of the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne and during his studies in Hann. Münden 1914 member of the Andree'schen Tischgesellschaft (later Corps Saxonia ). Later, in 1919, as an officer of the Reitende Feldjägerkorps (member since 1915) , Samwer was also one of the founding members of the " Academic Feldjägergesellschaft " in Eberswalde, an association of foresters who had received their training at the Eberswalde Forest Academy and carried on the traditions of the cavalry corps , which was dissolved in 1919.
In 1912 he was called up for military service and was initially used in the hunter battalion "Graf Yorck von Wartenburg" (East Prussian) No. 1 in Ortelsburg . In 1914 he became a deputy sergeant , then a lieutenant in the battalion's reserve . In 1915 he became a lieutenant and field hunter in the Reitende Feldjägerkorps, an elite unit of the cavalry of the Prussian army , which was recruited from foresters and was set up for courier and reconnaissance services.
Later he was adjutant of his main battalion and in 1916 a lieutenant and field hunter in the large headquarters west. In 1918 he was posted to the Operations Department of the Supreme Army Command as a representative of the sick personal adjutant of the First Quartermaster General , then personal aide to the chief of the Operations Department. From 1919 he was used as a courier on behalf of the Foreign Office in the Nordic countries and on behalf of the Supreme Army Command for the Armistice Commission in Spa. In 1920 he was retired from military service as a first lieutenant .
In 1922 Samwer passed the state forestry examination and was employed as a forest assessor for the government in Königsberg . In 1924 he was promoted to the Prussian state forester. In 1934 he was promoted to forester in Neu-Sternberg in the province of East Prussia . Later he was appointed head forest master in Magdeburg .
ancestry
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Karl Friedrich Lucian Samwer (1819–1882) lawyer, constitutional law teacher |
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Karl August Friedrich Samwer (1861–1946) lawyer |
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Friedrich Samwer (1892–1953) officer and chief forester |
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Awards
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
- Knight's Cross with Crown of the Bulgarian Order of Military Merit
- Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Albrecht Order
- Austrian Military Merit Cross III. class
literature
- Erwin Garvens : Directory of members of the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne , Hamburg 1937
- Peter Koch: Samwer, Karl August Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 412 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Samwer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfram G. Theilemann: Adel in the countryside Rock: noble Jägertum, large private forest ownership and the Prussian forestry officials from 1866 to 1914. Akademie Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3050035560 , p. 492 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Samwer, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forester and officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1953 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |