Hans Walter (Lieutenant General)

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Hans Walter (born May 13, 1852 in Wismar , † August 12, 1932 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and played a key role in shaping the railway troops in the German Empire .

Life

Hans Walter was born the son of a pastor. He passed his Abitur in Wismar.

On April 3, 1873, he joined the Prussian Army . In 1876 he came as a second lieutenant in the newly founded railway regiment . He stayed with this class of service and was promoted here several times. Walter received an assignment for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and took part in several railway congresses. Out of this interest in the interface between the military and the railroad, he wrote a handbook for officers of the railroad troops. As commander of the No. 3 Railway Regiment, he was promoted to colonel . He made the choice of location and directed the construction of the new barracks and training facilities for the railway troops in the west in Hanau , where in 1910 his railway regiment No. 3 was relocated. Here he was promoted to major general on July 19, 1911 . From 1913 he commanded the 1st Railway Brigade in Berlin and was put up for disposition on May 3, 1914 after reaching the age limit as Lieutenant General and the title of "Excellence" .

Awards

literature

  • Jens Gustav Arndt: About field railways and barracks. The history of the Hanau railway regiments 1907–1919 . Hanau 2013, p. 25f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1913 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1913, p. 121
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general of the railway troops
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1932
Place of death Berlin