Georg Mühry

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Georg Mühry (born September 5, 1859 in Hanover , † January 23, 1946 in Kloster Wienhausen ) was a German infantry general .

Life

After passing his Abitur on February 23, 1878, Mühry joined the 2nd Hanover Infantry Regiment No. 77 of the Prussian Army as a flag junior . Here he was promoted to Second Lieutenant on October 16, 1879 , and from 1884 served as Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion. On December 13, 1888, he was promoted to prime lieutenant and in the following year Mühry was assigned to the infantry shooting school in Wünsdorf . At the same time as he was promoted to captain on September 14, 1893, Mühry was appointed company commander in his main regiment. On April 1, 1897, he was transferred to the 5th Hanover Infantry Regiment No. 165 in the same position . As a major (since January 27, 1903) he was from November 15, 1904 to December 16, 1908 in command of the III. Battalion of the 3rd Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 62 in Ratibor . Mühry was then transferred to Goslar , where he was given command of the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10 . There he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 27, 1910 . On April 22, 1912 he returned to Wünsdorf, was commander of the local infantry shooting school and promoted to colonel five months later .

First World War

With the outbreak of the First World War Mühry resigned in the troop service and was commander of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 35. With this he took part in the III. Reserve Corps took part in the invasion of neutral Belgium and took part in the fighting for Antwerp . He gave up this regiment after two months and was then given command of the 25th Reserve Infantry Brigade of the VII Reserve Corps . Already on October 26th, Mühry took over the 108th Reserve Infantry Brigade before Ypres and was promoted to major general on March 22nd, 1915 . As such, Mühry was then from April 19, 1915 commander of the 67th Infantry Brigade with the 1st Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 130 and the King Infantry Regiment (6th Lorraine) No. 145 in the Argonne . Here he was able to repel far superior attacks by the enemy, bringing in 2,000 prisoners as well as numerous military equipment and on September 27, 1915 conquered the north side of Höhe 285.

At the beginning of August 1916, the brigade was withdrawn from the Argonne Forest, relocated to Verdun and took part in the fighting for Fleury there. On October 1, 1916, Mühry also gave up this command and became commander of the 223rd division newly established in Upper Alsace . With her he fought at the Somme and was subsequently in the trench warfare over. On January 4, 1917, Mühry then took over the newly formed 236th Division , with which he repulsed attacks by the English in the spring battle at Arras from April to May 1917. After position battles, the division was able to prove itself in the Third Battle of Flanders in September 1917 with heavy losses, was then pulled from the front and relocated to a quiet section in the Artois to relax .

Here she took part in the newly formed 17th Army in the spring offensive that began on March 21, 1918 . In the course of this, after the Battle of Monchy, it broke through the enemy lines and captured the strategically important Mühlenberg. Fights on the Scarpe and the storming of Neuville-Vitasse followed . At the beginning of April 1918, the division joined the 4th Army in Flanders , where it took part in the trench warfare and the fighting in the Ypres arch . In September 1918 it was then used by Army Division C on the Woëvre plain . Then she was assigned to the 5th Army and fought there with great commitment against numerically superior American units. For the defensive success of his division, Mühry was awarded the Pour le Mérite on October 25, 1918 at the suggestion of his commanding general Ernst von Oven .

post war period

After the armistice , Mühry led his division back home and was briefly transferred to the officers of the army after the troops were demobilized . From February 6 to April 30, 1919 he was then commander of the 1st Guard Division and then again an officer in the army. As of May 25, Mühry was accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr and appointed commander of Reichswehr Brigade 4. This command was Mühry at his own request and was the simultaneous presentation of the character as a lieutenant general on August 23, 1919 to the disposition provided.

After his departure, Mühry u. a. as chairman of the Northwest Regional Association of the German Officers Association and of the Hanover Regional Association of the General German Hunting Protection Association.

Mühry received the character of General of the Infantry on August 27, 1939, the so-called Tannenberg Day.

Awards

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweig: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2516-2 , pp. 477-479.
  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1935, DNB 366884158 , pp. 62-63.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 343
personal data
SURNAME Mühry, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1946
Place of death Wienhausen Monastery