Gustav von Bartenwerffer

Gustav von Bartenwerffer

Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Stanislaus von Bartenwerffer (born June 10, 1872 in Nancy , † January 8, 1947 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German officer and politician (DNVP).

Life

He was the son of the later Prussian general of the infantry Conrad von Bartenwerffer (1835-1919) and his wife Marie, née Klessel (* 1846). His father was elevated to the hereditary Prussian nobility on April 25, 1885 by Wilhelm I. The later Prussian Major General Paul von Bartenwerffer (1867–1928) was his older brother.

Bartenwerffer first attended high schools in Metz , Königsberg and Oldenburg . In 1890 he joined as a cadet in the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment. 91 of the Prussian army one. In the further course of his military career , Bartenwerffer worked as a major in the General Staff in 1913/14 . At the beginning of the First World War he was with the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army and became head of department the following year. From 1916 to 1918 he served as chief of the general staff of the army group " Bernhardi ". After the end of the war he rejoined the General Staff as head of the Central Department and was retired from active service as a colonel in 1919 when he was dissolved. Afterwards Bartenwerffer lived in Thale in the Harz Mountains. For the German National People's Party (DNVP) he was a member of the Reichstag in Berlin from 1930 to the end of 1933 as a member of constituency 10 (Magdeburg) .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav von Bartenwerffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gustav von Bartenwerffer in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelige Häuser B Volume XX, Volume 104 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1993, ISBN 3-7980-0804-3 , p. 10.
2. ^ Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian nobility. First volume, ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1892, p. 50.
3. ^ Hans Fenske: Under Wilhelm II. 1890-1918. 1982, p. 537.