Fritz von Selle

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Fritz Karl von Selle (born October 15, 1868 in Zigahnen in the Marienwerder district , † May 25, 1947 in Coburg ) was a German lieutenant general .

Life

Selle came from the cadet corps in 1889 as a second lieutenant in the infantry regiment "Count Tauentzien von Wittenberg" (3rd Brandenburg) No. 20 of the Prussian Army in Wittenberg . There he became Premier Lieutenant in 1896 and, as such, was in command of the General Staff for two years . Selle then worked as an adjutant in Halle (Saale) with the 15th Infantry Brigade . In 1902 he was promoted to captain and spent two and a half years as adjutant to the director of the General War Department in the Prussian War Ministry . He then became company commander in the 4th Guards Regiment on foot in Berlin for two years . This was initially followed by a command as a major in the War Ministry and finally in 1909 he was transferred there. In 1912 he returned to the service and was appointed commander of the III. Battalion of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 .

This battalion led Selle to the western front with the outbreak of World War I and took part in the siege and conquest of Namur . The regiment was then transferred to the Eastern Front , where Selle was promoted to lieutenant colonel on September 5, 1914 . After the regiment commander, Colonel von Berg, had fallen, Selle was appointed commander of the regiment on November 23, 1914. In this role he was able to distinguish himself during the Battle of Łódź . At the beginning of 1916, the regiment returned to the Western Front and took part in the fighting for Verdun . After the Battle of Arras , Selle was promoted to colonel on July 18, 1917. After his regiment at the beginning of December 1917 Passchendaele in Flanders in costly trench warfare had won an important defensive success, Selle was for the Order Pour le Mérite awarded. On May 31, 1918, he was appointed commander of the 55th Infantry Brigade.

After the armistice , Selle led his brigade back home, where it was demobilized by the end of January 1919 . Selle then took back command of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 before he was taken over into the Provisional Reichswehr at the end of May 1919 . There he was initially used as the commander of the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 21 in Erfurt and served as the commander of the Neisse fortress from April to the end of September 1920 . On October 1, 1920 he was then to become the commanding officer of the Zossen military training area. On January 1, 1921, he was promoted to major general and sent to the army command in Berlin. Selle finally retired on September 30, 1921.

Selle was given the character of Lieutenant General on August 27, 1939, the so-called Tannenberg Day.

Awards

Honors

The 95 barracks in Coburg was named “General von Selle barracks” in June 1939 in honor of the former commander of the 95th Infantry Regiment.

literature

  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: MZ. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 332–334.
  • Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting. New Press Publishing House, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B Volume V, p. 514, Volume 26 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1961, p. 392
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Son , Berlin 1914, p. 148
personal data
SURNAME Selle, Fritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Selle, Fritz Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Zigahnen, district of Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1947
Place of death Coburg