Hans Kannengießer
Hans Kannengießer (born June 25, 1868 in Görlitz , † 1945 in Neubrandenburg ) was a Prussian and Ottoman major general and pasha .
Life
Kannengießer completed a career as an officer in the Prussian Army and was put up for disposition as a major in 1912 . In the same year he came to Istanbul as a member of the German military missions in the Ottoman Empire and became head of department in the Ottoman general staff as a colonel . After the outbreak of the First World War , he was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the 9th Division with which he participated in the Battle of Gallipoli and was wounded. On August 6, 1915, during the landing in Anafartalar and the ensuing battle at Anafarta , he and 20 soldiers managed to stop around 16,000 Australians for hours, who did not know how weak the positions in front of them were. He later served as the deputy commanding general of the XVI. Army Corps and was Commanding General of the XIV Army Corps. Kannengießer also commanded the XXV in the same capacity. Army Corps at Edirne .
Publications
- Gallipoli, significance and course of the fighting in 1915. Melchior Verlag, reprint from 1927, ISBN 3942562707 , Liman von Sanders wrote the foreword. This book has also been translated into Turkish since 2009.
- Small causes - great effect, beginning of the August Battle of Gallipoli in 1915: The August fighting in Gallipoli in 1915. in: Knowledge and Defense . 1939
literature
- Klaus Wolf: Gallipoli 1915. The German-Turkish military alliance in the First World War. Report Verlag, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-932385-29-2 , p. 250.
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| SURNAME | Kannengießer, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian major general, Ottoman pasha |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1945 |
| Place of death | Neubrandenburg |