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Gerhard groping

Dietrich Gerhard Emil Theodor Tappen (born July 3, 1866 in Esens , † May 28, 1953 in Goslar ) was a German artillery general .

Life

From right to left: Erich von Falkenhayn , Crown Prince Boris , Hans von Seeckt , Gerhard Tappen, Colonel Gantschew, General Nikola Schekow , unknown, August von Mackensen in Paraćin on November 6, 1915

On April 1, 1885, Gerhard Tappen joined the field artillery regiment No. 15 of the Prussian Army in Saarburg as a flag squire and was promoted to second lieutenant in mid-September 1886 . He studied in 1888/89 at the United Artillery and Engineering School and from 1893 for three years at the War Academy . On September 14, 1893, he was promoted to prime lieutenant and in 1897 commanded to the General Staff . In 1901 he was battery chief in the field artillery regiment "von Holtzendorff" (1st Rheinisches) No. 8 in Saarbrücken. In 1904 he was promoted to adjutant in the general staff of the 16th division in Trier and on January 27, 1906 to major . He became a teacher at the War Academy and in 1909 the Chief of Staff of the XVII. Army Corps appointed. In 1910 he was promoted to head of department in the General Staff and on October 1, 1912 to lieutenant colonel.

During the First World War , Tappen served in the Supreme Army Command (OHL) in Koblenz from August 1914 . Here he was chief of the operations department in the general staff of the field army. Here he brought his brother Hans into contact with the General Staff and their experiments with chemical weapons. Hans (Karl?) Tappen (1879–1941) was a doctor of chemistry and worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin.

In March 1915 Tappen was briefly deployed as a representative of the Chief of Staff of the 7th Army under Colonel General Josias von Heeringen and from August 28, 1916 served as Major General, also as Chief of Staff in the Mackensen Army Group in Romania. In December 1916 he took over command of the 5th Replacement Division and in September 1917 he was then commander of the 15th Infantry Division .

His war diary and other correspondence are in the Federal Archives.

Tappen received on 27 August 1939 the so-called Tannenbergtag , the character conferred as a general of artillery.

Awards (incomplete)

Fonts

  • Up to the Marne 1914: Contributions to the evaluation of the warfare up to the conclusion of the Marne battle. Stalling-Verlag, Oldenburg 1920.

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 391-392.
  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 399-401.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margit Szöllösi-Janze : Fritz Haber. 1868-1934. P. 323 f. ( Online at Google Book Search ).
  2. ↑ Biography of Dr. Karl von Tappen (1879–1941) (English)
  3. ↑ Federal Archives: Central Database of Legacies
  4. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 22.
  5. ^ Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite 1740-1918. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 1998, ISBN 3-7648-2473-5 , p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Fumble, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tappen, Dietrich Gerhard Emil Theodor (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the artillery
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Esens
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1953
Place of death Goslar