Hans Klaus from Werder

[File: Hans Klaus v.Werder.gif | miniatur | Hans Klaus von Werder] Hans Klaus von Werder (born August 13, 1892 in Reideburg on the Sagisdorf manor ; † July 9, 1972 in Gürzenich (Düren) ) was a German officer , personal adjutant to Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia and federal chairman of the Semper talis Bund (1953–1971).

Life

Hans Klaus von Werder comes from the noble family von Werder and attended the city ​​high school in Halle (Saale) as well as the Friedrichskollegium zu Königsberg . In 1905 he joined the alumni of the monastery school in Roßleben to better promote his scientific knowledge . After being in Berlin light field with the help of teachers of Hauptkadettenanstalt had been prepared for the midshipman examination and this had passed, he entered on 22 March 1911 as a cadet in the 1st Guards Regiment walk into Potsdam. After successfully attending the war school in Hanover, he was promoted to lieutenant on August 18, 1912 .

First World War

With the 1st Guards Regiment on foot, he moved to the Western Front in 1914 as a platoon leader . The main events were: Battle of Namur , Battle of Monceau, appointed adjutant of the 1st Battalion on August 24, 1914, Battle of St. Quentin , on September 7th at the Battle of Petit Morin, slightly wounded by shrapnel on the thigh, but with the troops remained, fights near Reims , battle of Arras , trench warfare in Artois , trench warfare in Champagne (Perthes, Le Mesnil), battle of Gorlice-Tarnów , battle for Jaroslaw , crossing over the San , battles near Radymno and the San, battles at the Jaroslau bridgehead, breakthrough battle of Lubaczow , battle of Lemberg , pursuit battles on the Galician- Polish border to the Bug , on August 9, 1915 appointed leader of the 3rd company, pursuit battles between Bug and Jasiolda , on September 28, 1915 autumn battle at La Bassée and Arras ( Givenchy ), trench warfare near Roye / Noyon , Battle of the Somme , seriously wounded on the Somme on August 26, 1916 and brought home.

On November 1, 1916, von Werder was assigned to the infantry staff guard at the headquarters in Pless . On December 27, 1916 von Werder was seconded to the service of Prince Eitel Friedrich von Prussia , commander of the 1st Guard Division , and appointed personal adjutant on January 26, 1917. Werders' war activities as a personal adjutant no longer took place in the front line, but with the division staff.

The main events were: double battle on the Aisne and in Champagne, trench warfare in the Argonne , defensive battle and trench warfare near Zloczow , breakthrough battle in eastern Galicia, trench warfare on the Sereth ( Tarnopol ), battle near Riga , trench warfare north of the Daugava .

Ilse von Werder, b. from Diringshofen

In between, Hans Klaus von Werder married Ilse von Diringshofen, a daughter of Lieutenant General Max von Diringshofen and Margarete de Haën, on October 4, 1917 in Nedlitz near Potsdam . The marriage had four children. On November 28, 1917 he was promoted to first lieutenant .

Again on the western front there followed positional battles at Reims, the breakthrough battle at St. Quentin / La Fére, battles at the crossing over the Somme and the Crozat Canal , battles near Montdidier , battles on the Avre , the battle at Soissons and Reims ( Chemin des Dames ), Fights between Oise and Aisne and over the Vesle to the Marne . From June 18 to July 6, 1918, von Werder was deputy regimental adjutant on foot during the rest / training period of the 1st Guard Regiment, while remaining in his position as personal adjutant to Prince Eitel-Friedrich. Then again with the prince he watched the end on the western front: trench warfare between Aisne and Marne, attack battle on the Marne and in Champagne , defensive battle between Marne and Vesle, defensive battle between Oise and Aisne, battles before the Siegfried position, trench warfare in the Argonne, defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse, fighting on the Hunding Front and the Brunhild Front, on the Aisne and on the Aire , Battle of Vouziers . On October 22, 1918, Prince Eitel-Friedrich left the division, accompanied by his personal adjutant.

Weimar Republic

Von Werder experienced the November Revolution in Potsdam . On December 8, 1918, he was relieved of his position as personal adjutant to Prince Eitel-Friedrich and returned to the 1st Guard Regiment on foot. After the war, von Werder led a company of the returned 1st Guard Regiment for four weeks. Shortly before the storming of the building of the socialist newspaper Der Vorwärts in Berlin, which was recaptured by the Potsdamer Garden from the hands of the Spartacus group for the majority socialists , he asked for his release after a conflict with the chairman of the regiment's soldiers' council. On July 18, 1919, he was granted a retirement pension and permission to wear his regiment's uniform.

As a prospective large landowner at the Sagisdorf manor , he devoted himself to agriculture, studied three semesters at the University of Halle , attended lectures there not only on technical, but also economic and legal lectures, and then spent two and a half years with the manor Georg von Zimmermann on Gut Neukirchen (Merseburg district) practically active. He used the free time to be active in political life. He got into close contact with the Stahlhelm in Halle and wrote a series of "patriotic" treatises for it, which were disseminated in the local groups. He also took over the office of second chairman of the Volksverein Halle / Saalkreis of the German National People's Party and the executive board member of the regional association of this party. On April 1, 1928, after taking over the inherited manors Sagisdorf, Queis and Storkwitz, he resigned his political honorary posts in order to be able to devote himself entirely to the agricultural business.

Nazi dictatorship, World War II and the post-war period

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, von Werder rose to the Reichsnährstand . In 1934 he was appointed state head department III of the state farming community of Saxony-Anhalt; thereby he became a member of the state farmers' council Saxony-Anhalt.

During the Second World War , von Werder was a major corps replenisher in the 9th Infantry Regiment . In Russia he was wounded when he broke out of the Chertkovo pocket. In July 1944 he was used in Italy. He was taken prisoner by the Americans, from which he was released in July 1946.

Meanwhile, as a result of the Land Reform Act , his wife and sons had to leave their estates and fled the Soviet occupation zone to the West. Hans Klaus von Werder worked there as a farmer and as a representative for textile goods. From 1953 to 1971 von Werder was federal chairman of the Semper talis Bund, which he co-founded in 1921 .

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class on September 17, 1914
• Iron Cross (1914) 1st Class on March 23, 1915
• Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords on October 15, 1916
• Wound badge (1918) in black
• Cross of Honor of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern III. Class with swords
• Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Class with war decorations
• Friedrich-August-Kreuz II. And I. Class
• War Merit Cross (1939) with swords 2nd and 1st class
• Wound Badge (1939) silver

literature

• Wolfgang von Werder: History of the Brandenburg-Magdeburguischen family of Werder 3rd volume. Publishing house for family research U. Starke 1937

Web links

• The life of Hans Klaus von Werder

Individual evidence

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