Georg Sick
Georg Sick (born October 17, 1861 in Teutendorf , † June 30, 1937 in Wildbad ) was a Prussian colonel and knight of the order Pour le Mérite .
Life
After Sick had passed his Abitur , he studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in 1881/82 . During his studies he was a one-year volunteer in the Guard Fusilier Regiment of the Prussian Army and joined the 2nd Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 27 in Halberstadt in November 1882 as an avantageur . There he was promoted to second lieutenant in 1883 and prime lieutenant in 1892 . With the promotion to captain in 1898 he became company commander in the infantry regiment "von Boyen" (5th East Prussian) No. 41 in Tilsit and rose to major by 1910 . In 1912 he was appointed commander of the 2nd Battalion in the 2nd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 47 in Schrimm .
With this association , Sick went to the battle of Longwy-Longuyon at the outbreak of the First World War and then fought between the Maas and the Moselle . He was wounded in the forest of Le Selonze . After his recovery, he was appointed by AKO on January 5, 1915 as the commander of the infantry regiment "Graf Kirchbach" No. 46 from Posen and Wreschen .
After position battles on the "twin heights of Combres", Sick was promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 27, 1915 and on April 25, 1915 appointed commander of the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment 163 from Neumünster and Heide , which was fighting between Roye and Noyon at the time .
At the end of September 1915 he became leader of the fusilier regiment "Queen" (Schleswig-Holstein) No. 86 and individual battalions of regiments No. 31 and 162 as well as the MG company of the infantry regiment "von Manstein" (Schleswig-Holstein) No. 84 “Sick” regiment named after its leader. This fought at La Bassée and Arras and west of the Lens -Arras road across from Ecurie . The Senate of the City of Lübeck recognized his achievement on November 6, 1915 by being awarded the Hanseatic Cross . In January 1916 he resigned to his 163ers.
The most significant event of that time was the storming of the "Gießler-Höhe" on February 21, 1916. Hans am Ende , a soldier in the neighboring regiment, recorded this event for the 163 in a painting that he painted in the picture opposite.
In July 1916, Sick led his regiment into the Battle of the Somme . After a brief transfer to Loos , I returned to the Somme . The local achievements of his regiment found their external recognition in the award of the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords. Sick had previously been awarded both classes of the Iron Cross .
In April and May 1917 he moved with his regiment to the battle of Arras . His services there fell to the commanding general of the IX. Reserve Corps , Lieutenant General Karl Dieffenbach . He then submitted it to the Pour le Mérite. Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded Sick the highest Prussian bravery award from AKO on May 20, 1917 and presented it to him personally two days later at the imperial parade in Fénain .
His regiment fought in the trench warfare of Artois , the Battle of Messines and proved itself in the Siegfriedstellung before returning to Flanders in the winter of 1917/18. On January 27, 1918, he was promoted to colonel. During the German spring offensive , it fought near Armentières , Messines and Wytschaete (now a district). He was appointed commander of the 59th Landwehr Infantry Brigade on July 24, 1918. The brigade was at Reims at that time . In early September 1918, Sick fell ill with paratyphoid fever and did not return to the front. After the end of the war , he was put up for disposition at his request on April 15, 1919 and two months later transferred to the officers who had retired .
The former Sick barracks in Neumünster ( Schleswig-Holstein ) was named after him.
References
literature
- Hanns Möller: The history of the knights of the order "pour le merite" in the world war. Volume 2: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 334–336.
- Holger Ritter: History of the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163. Verlag von Gerhard Stalling, Hamburg 1926.
- Otto Dziobek : History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162. Verlag by Gerhard Stalling, first edition 1922
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lübeck city archives in terms of Senate files: Directory of the owner of the Lübeckischen Hanseatic Cross. Signature 1093, receipt number 99.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sick, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian colonel, knight of the order Pour le Mérite |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teutendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1937 |
| Place of death | Wildbad |