Georges Louis Humbert
Georges Louis Humbert (born April 8, 1862 in Gazeran , Yvelines department , † November 9, 1921 in Strasbourg ) was a French officer, most recently Général de division .
Military career
Humbert was born the son of a police officer who had served as a soldier in the Crimean War . At the age of 13 he became a soldier's child ( enfant de troupe ) in the 20th e régiment de chasseurs à cheval . He graduated from the Lyceum and then from 1881 to 1883 the Saint-Cyr Military School . He then served in French Indochina . From 1890 to 1892 he attended the Paris École supérieure de guerre . During the Madagascar expedition of 1895/96 he served in the staff of General Jacques Duchesne and later commanded a battalion .
Promoted to Colonel in 1907 , he commanded the 96 e régiment d'infanterie until 1909 . He then served as chief of staff at III. Army corps and from 1912 as commander of the 56 e brigade d'infanterie .
Shortly before the beginning of the First World War in 1914, he was sent to Morocco to lead the marocaine division formed during the mobilization to France. With this he fought in September 1914 during the First Marne Battle as part of the IX. Army Corps of the 9th Army at the Saint-Gond Marshes . From September 1914 to March 1915 he commanded a combined army corps (from October 1914 XXXII. Army Corps) with which he fought in the First Battle of Flanders and which was deployed in the Argonne from the turn of the year 1914/15 .
In March 1915, Humbert became commander of the newly formed Détachement d'armée de Lorraine . In July 1915 he received command of the 3rd Army , which was initially deployed in the Argonne. He led this until the end of the war, including in 1916 in the Battle of the Somme and in 1918 in the defense against the German spring offensive and in the Hundred Days Offensive .
After the end of the war, Humbert became military governor of Strasbourg and was also a member of the Conseil supérieur de la guerre from 1920 . He died in 1921 at the age of 59 from the sequelae of a malaria infection in Indochina . His grave is in the Invalides in Paris.
family
Two sons of Humbert also achieved the rank of general:
- Jacques Émile Louis Léon Humbert (1893–1993) served, among other things, as commandant of Corsica during World War II
- Jean Louis Auguste Humbert (1895-1975) served as head of the French delegation to the Armistice Commission in Wiesbaden and was later transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp deported
literature
- Spencer C. Tucker (Ed.): World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. ABC-Clio, 2014, ISBN 978-1-85109-965-8 , pp. 779-780.
- John Bourne: Who's Who in World War I , Taylor & Francis, 2002, ISBN 0-203-43881-7 , pp. 136-137.
Web links
- Who's Who - Georges Humbert on firstworldwar.com
- Genealogical information on gw.geneanet.org
Footnotes
- ↑ Jacques Humbert's profile on generals.dk , accessed on June 14, 2015.
- ↑ Jean Humbert's profile at generals.dk , accessed on June 14, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Humbert, Georges Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gazeran , Yvelines department |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1921 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |