Gustav von Schoch

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Karl Gustav Georg Schoch , since 1909 Knight of Schoch (* 25. May 1858 in Munich , † 6. May 1924 ) was a Bavarian General of Infantry in the First World War .

Life

origin

His great-grandfather was the Swiss revolutionary Johann Felix Schoch (1768–1817), who was sentenced to death, and his grandfather was the manager of the Steingaden military foal farm, Johann Erhard Schoch (1788–1839). He was the eldest son of Karl Wilhelm Schoch (1821–1868), Colonel in the Bavarian General Staff, and his wife Marie, née Heymann from Nuremberg . His brothers Albert , Emil and Karl also became generals in the Bavarian Army.

Military career

Schoch passed the Abitur examination at Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium in 1876 , among others with Otto and Richard Voit, the sons of the architect August von Voit , Rudolf von Hößlin , Karl Schlösser , Carl Seitz and Ludwig Wüllner and then joined the Bavarian Army as a one-year volunteer . In the winter semester of 1876/77, however, he was enrolled as a law student at Munich University. After successfully attending the Munich War School , he was promoted to Second Lieutenant on December 1, 1878, in the 2nd Infantry Regiment "Crown Prince" . He initially served in the 2nd Company, rose to the regiment adjutant and graduated from the war academy in 1886/89 , which made him qualified for the general staff and senior adjutantage. In the meantime promoted to prime lieutenant, Schoch was assigned to the general staff in 1890. On June 30, 1893, he was promoted to captain and on October 28, 1899 to major . As such, transferred to the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps in 1900 , Schoch rose further in the following years. On October 16, 1908, he was finally transferred to the War Department with his promotion to major general . Here he acted as head of the department for personal affairs and was also active there as a councilor for the duration of his assignment .

For his services he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Bavarian Crown on September 17, 1909 . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Schoch after his entry in the nobility register .

Released as lieutenant general on March 23, 1912 from his position in the war ministry, shortly thereafter he was appointed commander of the 5th division in Nuremberg . Schoch initially led this large association when the First World War broke out during the border guard battles and the Battle of Lorraine . This was followed by the Battle of Nancy - Épinal , before the division went into trench warfare in mid-September 1914 between Meuse and Moselle .

Schoch, plagued by depression and worried that he would go blind due to old age, spent most of the time with an orderly officer and an assistant doctor in the rear area. He left the operational management to his First General Staff Officer Julius von Reichert and only informed himself about the situation pro forma. On January 6, 1915, Schoch took several weeks of recreational leave at home, briefly returned to the front on March 1, and had to finally relinquish his command on April 20, 1915. Schoch was then put up for disposal on February 7, 1916 with a statutory pension , conferring the character of General of the Infantry and the Order of Military Merit 1st Class with swords .

At his request, Schoch was used again on October 9, 1917 as a stage inspector of Army Section A and from March 16, 1918 of the 19th Army until December 1918.

family

He married Paula Wagner (* 1867) on November 9, 1891. Their parents were Alexander von Wagner (1838-1919), professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , and his wife, the publisher's daughter Bertha Oldenbourg (1844-1869). The marriage produced three daughters.

Fonts

Schoch published essays on military topics, including in " Münchener Wochenblatt " and "Yearbooks for Army and Navy".

  • The activities of Marshal Mac Mahon before the Battle of Wörth, an operational study. ( Contributions to the history of war , issue 2), Berlin 1904.
  • The German Moselle crossing in 1870 in French lighting. ( Contributions to the history of war , volume 3), Berlin 1906.
  • Nationalism and Politics, Retrospectives and Outlooks. Munich 1918.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1875/76
  2. ↑ Official register of the staff of teachers, civil servants and students at the royal Bavarian Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Winter semester 1876/77
  3. ↑ Hackl, p. 233.
  4. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 29 of February 12, 1916. p. 673.
personal data
SURNAME Schoch, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoch, Karl Georg Gustav Ritter von; Schoch, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian general of the infantry in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1924
Place of death Munich