Gustav Schaumann (officer)

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Major Schaumann
Lübeck residence
Lübeck charity delegation at the staff of the Brigade Replacement Battalion 81 : (from left to right) Lt. Meier (adjutant), Senator Lienau , Gen.-Lt. Melior , Rud. Köhn, Major Schaumann , Oberltn. Lorenz
Gustav Schaumann

Gustav Friedrich August Georg Schaumann (born September 8, 1853 in Sulingen in Hanover , † September 14, 1918 in Berlin ) was a Prussian colonel in the First World War .

Life

origin

Gustav Schaumann was born in Sulingen in Hanover. His father was a Hanoverian later a Prussian officer . He spent his school days in the grammar school in Verden an der Aller , in the cadet corps in Plön and finally in Lichterfelde . There he completed the Prima in 1870 .

Military career

At the age of 17 he was transferred to the 1st Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 31 of the Prussian Army in Erfurt as a characterized portepee ensign . During the war against France , Schaumann was wounded in the battle of Épinay and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class, when it was connected . Through the AKO he was promoted on December 14, 1870 to the regular porter ensign and on April 4, 1871 to secondary lieutenant.

After the end of the war, his regiment Altona was assigned as a new garrison location. From 1881 to 1884, Schaumann attended the War Academy in Berlin for further training . In the summer of 1898, while being promoted to major , Schaumann was transferred to Infantry Regiment No. 157 in Brieg , Silesia , and was appointed battalion commander. From his command, he was released in 1900 in approval of his leave request and with the statutory board for disposition made.

Lübeck

Schaumann retired in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

On November 11, 1900, the Lübeckische Blätter announced him as a new member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . Here he gave a lecture on March 19, 1901: Was it Napoleon's intention in the summer of 1806 to bring about war against Prussia? In the edition of December 30, 1900 he was noted as a new member of the Geographical Society .

The Lübeck Museum of Ethnology elected him on February 27, 1906 as its head .

First World War

At the outbreak of the First World War, despite his advanced age, Schaumann reported and became the commander of the Lübeck Landsturm Battalion for coastal protection in Lütjenburg . At his request to return to the front, at the end of September he was given command of the 81st Brigade Replacement Battalion. This initially fought in Lorraine a . a. in the battle of Nancy . Then it was subordinated to the 4th Army and was active in the Antwerp Fortress area .

In battles in Flanders near Lombardzyde it distinguished itself in October 1914 and received the Iron Cross 1st Class.

In the winter of 1914/15 his battalion was in position near Diksmuide , fought in the First Battle of Flanders and took part in the Christmas peace. Temporarily incapacitated by an injury, the battalion leader returned to his battalion in early December .

With the dissolution of the brigade, the "Bataillon Schaumann" in connection with the brigade replacement battalions 33, 34 and 35 was formed into Infantry Regiment No. 362 in the 13th Replacement Infantry Brigade on July 9, 1915 and fought in the Second Battle of Flanders .

As a lieutenant colonel , he was appointed commander of the 361 Reserve Infantry Regiment in 1916 . This was in October in the Battle of the Somme used, returned to Flanders to after completion of the Somme battle position battles of the Somme return. After his second assignment on the Somme, Schaumann was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords and the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross.

After deployments on the Siegfried Front and in the spring battle near Arras , his regiment was transferred to the Eastern Front in Galicia . Between the Narajówka and the Ceniowka , or Narajowka and Złota Lipa , the regiment took part in the Battle of Breschany .

Special dispatch of February 9, 1918

A temporary break in June 1917 was followed by a longer recovery at home until the beginning of 1918. There, as a member of the non-profit organization , he gave a lecture on his experiences at the front at their foundation festival in November.

Back at the front , he came to the east as a stage commander . First to Poland , then to Ukraine . Schaumann fell ill at the end of May. As his condition worsened, followed short stays in the hospitals of Kovno and Kovel . From here he came to the Elisabeth Hospital in Berlin . There a complete exhaustion and exhaustion of the heart were noted .

After Schaumann died on September 4, 1918, he was buried in the Ehrenfriedhof in Lübeck.

family

The daughter of Rittmeister Hanssen married Schaumann in 1877 in Kiel .

His wife was active on the board of the women's association in St. Jürgen .

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Schaumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also regimental history, p. 356 f.
  2. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 42, issue no.46 from November 11, 1918.
  3. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities - event on March 19, 1901. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 43, issue No. 12 of March 24, 1911.
  4. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter. Volume 48, issue No. 9 of March 4, 1906.
  5. ↑ Major Gustav Schaumann. In: From Lübeck's towers. Vol. 25, issue no.3 from Saturday, January 16, 1915.
  6. ↑ Lübeck General-Anzeiger ; Edition of December 3, 1914, category: Local
  7. ^ Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the units and troops of the German army 1914 to 1918
personal data
SURNAME Schaumann, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaumann, Gustav Friedrich August Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian colonel in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulingen , Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1918
Place of death Berlin