Friedrich von Scholtz

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Friedrich von Scholtz

Buoy Friedrich Nikolaus Scholtz , since 1913 von Scholtz (born March 24, 1851 in Flensburg , † April 30, 1927 in Ballenstedt ) was a Prussian artillery general in the First World War .

Life

Growing up in Ballenstedt, Scholtz began his military career in 1870. While still at school, he volunteered at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War , but first had to take an emergency exam to obtain a school leaving certificate. On July 19, 1870, he joined the Schleswig-Holstein Field Artillery Regiment No. 9 of the Prussian Army in Rendsburg as a flag junior . On March 9, 1870, Scholtz, trained as a gunner, was promoted to ensign . After the war he returned to the war school in Potsdam . He was appointed lieutenant on March 9, 1872. 1874-76 he was at the United Artillery and Engineering School in Berlin, from October 1, 1879 he attended the War Academy and on March 22, 1881 was Prime Lieutenant . On April 1, 1886, he served in the Great General Staff in Berlin and was promoted to captain on March 22, 1887 .

Friedrich von Scholtz

On May 31, 1892 he became major and on March 14, 1893 Chief of Staff of the XIV Army Corps in Karlsruhe. On October 18, 1896 he took over the III. Department in the 1st East Prussian Field Artillery Regiment No. 16 in Königsberg and on December 17, 1898 he rose to lieutenant colonel . Since March 25, 1899 he was Chief of Staff of the XVIII. Army Corps and on April 18, 1901 he became a colonel . On February 17, 1903, he took command of the 25th Field Artillery Brigade in Darmstadt. After he was promoted to major general on January 27, 1905 , he found again on February 23, 1906 as senior quartermaster in the great general staff.

After his appointment as lieutenant general on January 27, 1908, he took over the leadership of the 21st division in Frankfurt am Main on March 5 of the same year . On September 13, 1912 he was promoted to General of the Artillery and took over the command of the XX as Commanding General on October 1, 1912 . Army corps in Allenstein in East Prussia . On June 16, 1913, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II , Scholtz was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility .

Tomb in Ballenstedt

At the beginning of the First World War he excelled in the defense of East Prussia as commanding general in the 8th Army under General von Hindenburg in the battle of Tannenberg (1914) . Until September 18, 1915 he remained leader of the XX. Army Corps, since May 26th he was also deputy leader of the 8th Army. On October 8, 1915, he took over the newly established "Scholtz" army division in the Dünaburg area, which was named after him . Between January 2 and April 21, 1917, Scholtz was Commander-in-Chief of the 8th Army, previously known as the Nyemen Army.

On April 22, 1917 he took over from Otto von Below the leadership of the Army Group "Scholtz" on the Macedonian front . The German 11th Army under General of Infantry Kuno von Steuben and the Bulgarian 1st Army were subordinate to him . In September 1918, the end of the war on the Vardar followed for Scholtz, his army group had to fight its way back to Serbia after the breakthrough of the Allied Balkan Army under General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey . On January 14, 1919, Scholtz was retired from military service.

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 81 of June 19, 1913, p. 1864.
  2. a b War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 108.