Günther von Pappritz

Günther von Pappritz with his adjudicates

Günther Otto Friedrich Pappritz , since 1901 Günther Pappritz (* 29. February 1856 in Radach at Drossen ; † thirtieth May 1936 in Oranienburg ) was a Prussian cavalry general and governor of Kaliningrad in the First World War .

Life

Pappritz graduated from the convent school in Roßleben , joined the 1st Guards Field Artillery Regiment of the Prussian Army in Berlin on October 13, 1874, and was promoted to Second Lieutenant on February 12, 1876 . From 1885 to 1888 he studied at the War Academy . Then in 1889 he was assigned to the General Staff . Later he was commander of a Uhlan regiment and served in 1900 in the General Staff of the Army High Command in East Asia during the Boxer Uprising in China. After his return from Asia he was transferred to the Great General Staff . On November 28, 1901, Pappritz received the title of nobility from Kaiser Wilhelm II in recognition of his services . In 1906, as a colonel , Pappritz was chief of the General Staff of the XV. Army Corps and was appointed governor of the Königsberg Fortress on October 1, 1913, even before his promotion to lieutenant general .

During the First World War, Pappritz continued to hold this post and also acted as leader of the General Command z. b. V. No. 60 . On March 22, 1918, Pappritz was promoted to general of the cavalry.

Awards

Pappritz was also the holder of the following medals and decorations :

Order of the Red Eagle II class with oak leaves
Order of the Crown II class with the star and swords on the ring
Prussian service award cross
Commander II. Class of the order of the Zähringer lion
Officer's Cross of the Bavarian Military Merit Order
Commander 1st class of the Albrecht Order
Commander II class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
Waldeck Cross of Merit III. class
Commentary 2nd class of the Frederick Order
Officer of the Order of the Rising Sun
Officer of the Knightly Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus

Honors

In 1937 a street in Lankwitz was named after the general in Berlin , today in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district .

Web links

Pappritzstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )

Individual evidence

↑ Ranking of the officers of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps 1917. Ed .: War Ministry, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1917, p. 3.
^ Military weekly paper . No. 114/115 of March 23, 1918, p. 2765.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Prussian 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. 130.

personal data
SURNAME	Pappritz, Günther von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pappritz, Günther Otto Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian general of the cavalry and governor of Koenigsberg in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH	February 29, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Radach near Drossen
DATE OF DEATH	May 30, 1936
Place of death	Oranienburg

[Rangliste1917-1] Ranking of the officers of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps 1917. Ed .: War Ministry, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1917, p. 3.

[2] Military weekly paper . No. 114/115 of March 23, 1918, p. 2765.

[Rangliste1914-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Prussian 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. 130.