Georg Bock von Wülfingen (Major General)

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Georg Bock von Wülfingen (born January 9, 1868 in Hanover , † June 1, 1952 in Leipzig ) was a German major general .

Life

Georg Bock von Wülfingen came from the Lower Saxon noble family Bock von Wülfingen . His ancestors come from the I. (Lutheran) line, which can be traced back to Kurt Bock von Wülfingen (1545–1628). The progenitor of the Bockerode branch , from which Georg Bock von Wülfingen comes, was Jobst Gabiel Bock von Wülfingen (1678–1743). Georg Bock von Wülfingen's father was Lieutenant Colonel Julius Bock von Wülfingen (1820–1886), his grandfather was Lieutenant General Karl Bock von Wülfingen from Hanover .

He joined the Saxon Army and served a. a. in the Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment "Prince Georg" (Royal Saxon) No. 108 and in the General Staff. During the First World War Bock von Wülfingen was from April 11, 1917 to June 5, 1918 commander of the infantry regiment "King Georg" (7th Royal Saxon) No. 106 . In the double battle Aisne-Champagne he was able to prove himself particularly well in April / May 1917 when he and his regiment prevented the breakthrough of the French armed forces in the area of ​​the strategically important "Pöhlberg". For this purpose, Bock von Wülfingen was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Heinrich on June 1, 1917 .

In June 1918 he was sent to Constantinople for special use . Here Bock von Wülfingen held the post of Ottoman major general as chief of the general stage inspection in the Turkish headquarters. Mehmed VI. awarded him the title of pasha for his work .

After the end of the war and his return to Germany, he was accepted into the Reichswehr , where he was promoted to colonel with a patent from October 1, 1920 . As such, he was in command of the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment from 1923 until his departure on January 31, 1925 . At the same time he held the office of secretary of the Bock von Wülfingen family.

Bock von Wülfingen married Irmgard Düms in Leipzig in 1923 , with whom he settled in the villa district Weißer Hirsch in Dresden . Since 1926 he belonged to the Corps Albingia Dresden .

On June 10, 1934, Bock von Wülfingen gave the speech for the 125th anniversary of the " Black Brigade " in the industrial building in Dresden in front of the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 108th Rifle Regiment. This speech was also in print. He was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Rövekamp: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendates, judges and ministerial officials in the general rank. Volume 2: v. Blanckensee – v. Czettritz and Neuhauß. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2424-7 , pp. 49-50.
  • Georg Wulbrand Bock von Wülfingen: History of the Bock von Wülfingen. Göhmann'sche Buchdruckerei, Hanover 1896.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Part A, 41st century, Gotha 1942, p. 31.
  • Jürgen Huck: The buck from Wülfingen. In: Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Volume 122. Hahn, 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Adels , Adelige Häuser A Volume XXIII, Volume 106 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1994, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 , p. 7.
  2. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as the hunter and machine gun battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 . P. 275.
  3. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736-1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation. Dresden 1937. pp. 158f.
  4. ^ Klaus Wolf: Gallipoli 1915. The German-Turkish military alliance in the First World War. Report Verlag, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-932385-29-2 , p. 236.
  5. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses. Part A, 41st century, Gotha 1942, p. 32.
  6. ↑ K. Rosenbach, H. Ortwig, C. Vogel: History of the Corps Marko-Guestphalia at RWTH Aachen University, 1871 to 2001. Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-00-011065-8 , p. 288.
personal data
SURNAME Bock from Wülfingen, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general of the Reichswehr
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1952
Place of death Leipzig