Gabriel Henri Putz

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Henri Putz around 1920

Gabriel Henri Putz (born January 26, 1859 in Metz , † February 22, 1925 ibid) was a French Général de division .

Life

Putz was born in Metz, France at the time, as the son of the career officer and later Brigadier General Jean-Baptiste Henry Putz. After the German annexation of Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, the family moved to France. Admitted to the École Polytechnique in 1877 , he achieved an excellent degree and chose artillery as a branch of service. As a young officer he served in Tunisia (1881) and Tonkin (1885–87). During a stay in Madagascar from 1896 to 1899 he was promoted to commandant . From 1900 to 1901 he was used in China to suppress the Boxer Rebellion and in 1902 was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In 1907 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the XIV Army Corps with the rank of Colonel . In 1911 he was promoted to Général de brigade and appointed chief of the artillery of the XVII. Army Corps in Toulouse .

Promoted to Général de division on July 1, 1914, Putz began the First World War as commander of the 28th division in General Dubail's 1st Army and took part in the fighting in the Vosges . In September 1914 he received the command of the Groupement des Vosges , which in the same year in the XXXIV. Army Corps or the Détachement d'armée des Vosges (DAV) was renamed. When the 7th Army was set up in April 1915, he gave command to Louis Ernest de Maud'huy and instead took command of the Détachement d'armée de Belgique (DAB) in Belgian Flanders. With this army department he was involved in the defense of the German offensive in the Second Battle of Flanders . After the end of the Battle of Flanders, he took over the IV Army Corps in Champagne in June 1915 , with whom he was on various front lines until December 1917.

Then Putz became head of the Commandement supérieur du Nord (CSN), which he led until April 19, 1918. He was then without use for half a year until he was appointed inspector general of the combat troops in the zone des armées in mid-September 1918 , which he remained until the end of January 1919. In July 1920 he was appointed Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor .

Putz died in 1925 at the age of 66 in his native city of Metz and found his final resting place in the tombeau des gouverneurs des Hôtel des Invalides .

literature

  • Pierre Brasme: La Moselle Et Ses Soldats: Dictionnaire Biographique Des Gloires Militaires Mosellanes. Editions Serpenoise, 1999.

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personal data
SURNAME Putz, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Putz, Henri-Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1925
Place of death Metz