Friedrich von Haack

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Friedrich Haack , since 1918 Knight von Haack (born December 8, 1869 in Sötern , † November 17, 1940 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German infantry general of the Reichswehr .

Life

family

He was the son of the secret upper church council of the same name, Friedrich Haack, and his wife Sophie, née Euler. Haack married Julie Nübling on July 9, 1896. The marriage produced a son and a daughter.

Military career

Haack completed his Abitur at the humanistic grammar school in Birkenfeld . Then he joined the 12th Infantry Regiment "Prince Arnulf" of the Bavarian Army in Neu-Ulm on April 10, 1890 as an officer aspirant . After attending the Munich War School , Haack was promoted to second lieutenant on March 5, 1892 . He rose to regimental adjutant and was promoted to first lieutenant on March 7, 1903 . As such, Haack graduated from the Bavarian War Academy by September 30, 1903 , which awarded him the qualification for the general staff and the subject ( tactics , war history ). This was followed by a two-year assignment to the central office of the General Staff. On July 11, 1905, he was transferred to Ingolstadt as an adjutant to the 11th Infantry Brigade . With his promotion to captain on February 26, 1906, Haack was transferred to the central office of the General Staff. He was then the next two years worked and entered on October 16, 1908 as a company commander in the 19th Infantry Regiment "King Victor Emmanuel III. from Italy ”back into service. Before Haacks was transferred as First General Staff Officer to the 3rd Division on September 20, 1910, he was commanded from June 20 to represent the General Staff Officer of the 6th Division . On March 3, 1911 he was promoted to major and from October 1, 1912 to January 24, 1914 in the General Staff of the Inspectorate of the Engineer Corps. This was followed by his transfer to the War Ministry in Munich and his assignment in Army Department I (AI).

First World War

When the First World War broke out, he stayed there for the time being, as his area of ​​responsibility was the entire mobilization and the reorganization of individual units and associations. It was not until January 4, 1915, that Haack came to the Western Front as first general staff officer of the 1st Army Corps . At the time, the general command was in Péronne and it was here that he experienced the trench warfare on the Somme . On September 10, 1915 Haack was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the III. Army Corps appointed. In mid-July 1916 the corps was pulled from its position in the Mihiel bend and deployed with the 6th Army in the Artois for two months . It then fought with the 1st Army in the Battle of the Somme . In early October the corps was reassigned to the 6th Army and deployed south of Lille the following winter . Haack was promoted to lieutenant colonel there on December 14, 1916 . As such, he fought in April / May 1917 during the spring battle near Arras and in the Third Battle of Flanders . Due to the early approach of the intervention divisions, the attacks of the English in the corps area could be repulsed after slight initial successes and 2000 prisoners were brought in. Pulled from the front at the beginning of September, it was briefly moved to Ghent and from there to the Isonzo front. Here Haack's corps was subordinate to the newly formed 14th Army and, as the Tolmein group, was supposed to lead the main attack against Italy. In the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo , the Italians were defeated and pursued as far as the lower Piave before the corps went into trench warfare there. After the return of the General Command to the Western Front in mid-December 1917, Haack was appointed commander of Substitute Regiment 4, which was west of Mulhouse . He gave up command on April 5, 1918 and then took over the 7th Infantry Regiment “Prince Leopold” . Haack led this in the fighting west of Bapaume . On May 29, 1918 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps. At first it was used again in the Mihiel-Bogen, but was then moved to the area of Vouziers and took part in the offensive on both sides of Reims and the subsequent defensive battles here with the 7th Army .

Haack's achievements in the defensive battles between Soissons and Reims and between Marne and Vesle honored Wilhelm II on August 4, 1918 with the award of the highest Prussian valor award, the order Pour le Mérite . The corps was then withdrawn from the front and joined the 18th Army , with which it remained until the end of the war. Ludwig III. awarded Haack for his services on October 3, 1918 with the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order . The personal nobility was associated with the award and, after being entered in the Bavarian nobility register, he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Haack.

post war period

After the armistice in Compiègne and the return of the corps to their homeland, Haack remained in his position until the end of December 1918 and was then inspector of the Bavarian aviation industry . In May 1919, Haack took part in the liberation of Munich from a regiment made up of volunteers , was then transferred to the Provisional Reichswehr and appointed commander of the 42nd Reichswehr Rifle Regiment in Augsburg . On June 16, 1920, he was promoted to colonel . With the conversion of the transitional army to the Reichswehr, Haack was appointed commander of the 19th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment . He handed over the command to his successor Adolf von Ruith and on February 1, 1922, Haack was transferred to the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin as Chief of Staff of the Army Command . In this capacity he was promoted to major general on February 1, 1923 and lieutenant general on March 1, 1926 . On April 1, 1927, Haack was appointed head of the newly created military office in the Reichswehr Ministry. He was finally retired from service on October 31, 1927, with the character of General of the Infantry.

After his departure, Haack worked as editor of the magazine Deutsche Wehr .

Awards

literature

  • Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 456.
  • 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. 306-307.
  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume I: A-L. Bernard & Graefe publishing house. Berlin 1935. pp. 422-423.
  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): 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 5: v. Haack-Hitzfeld. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1999. ISBN 3-7648-2538-3 . Pp. 1-2.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 456.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1924. p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Haack, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haack, Friedrich Ritter von; Haack, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General of the Infantry of the Reichswehr
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Sötern
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1940
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf