Hans von Mieg

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Hans Mieg , since 1916 Ritter von Mieg (born May 25, 1865 in Würzburg ; † March 16, 1945 there ) was a German major general .

Life

family

He was the son of the Bavarian major of the artillery Malcolm Mieg and his wife Elise, née Thaler. He came from a widely ramified Mieg family , originally from Strasbourg . In 1899 Mieg married Elisabeth Seißer in his hometown of Würzburg . She was the sister of the later head of the Bavarian State Police Hans von Seißer (1874–1973). The marriage remained childless.

Military career

After graduating from the cadet corps in Munich , Mieg joined the 9th Infantry Regiment “Wrede” of the Bavarian Army in Würzburg on August 2, 1884 as portepeef ensign . As such, he attended the military school in Munich and was subsequently promoted to second lieutenant on April 8, 1886 . By March 1901, Mieg was promoted to captain and chief of the 4th Company and was promoted to major on October 28, 1909, on the regimental staff. This was followed on May 25, 1911 by his transfer to Passau in the 16th Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany" . There Mieg acted as commander of the III. Battalion and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in this position on January 7, 1914 .

At the beginning of the First World War , Mieg and his battalion initially took part in the battle of Lorraine after being mobilized . Then he was commissioned on September 18, 1914 with the leadership of the 10th Infantry Regiment "King Ludwig" and on October 27, 1914 appointed commander. His association came in the aftermath of the Western Front used and was in 1915 mainly in the trench warfare in Ailly Forest. On May 19, 1916, Mieg was promoted to colonel . In the battle of Verdun , his regiment succeeded in capturing the Thiaumont intermediate plant in the following month, which Mieg was able to hold against French recapture attempts in the following days, despite his own heavy losses. For this achievement he was on June 23, 1916 by King Ludwig III. entrusted with the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order . The award was connected with the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Mieg after the entry in the nobility register .

In 1917 his regiment took part in the trench warfare in French Flanders as well as the battles near Arras and in Flanders . During the German spring offensive , Mieg was seriously wounded and then released from his position as regimental commander. After his recovery he was appointed on September 25, 1918 as the commander of the 1st Replacement Infantry Brigade , which was located in the Vosges .

After the Armistice of Compiègne , Mieg led his troops back home, where he was given command of the 16th Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany" after demobilization on December 17, 1918. From parts of this regiment, the Freikorps "Passau" was formed after the demobilization, with which Mieg participated in the suppression of council rule in Rosenheim . On May 10, 1919, he was accepted into the provisional Reichswehr , initially commander of Mühldorf am Inn and a few days later commander of the Reichswehr Brigade 21. However, Mieg was released from this post soon after, as he had advocated attempts to negotiate with the leadership of the Red Army during the advance on Munich , which his soldiers and members of the military association rejected.

He was then retired from military service on July 10, 1919 with the statutory pension and the right to wear the uniform of the 10th Infantry Regiment "King Ludwig". On August 11, 1919, Mieg was given the character of major general.

After his departure, Mieg u. a. as district leader of Lower Franconia in the Bund Bayer und Reich and then in the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten .

He and his wife were killed in an English bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945 during the Second World War .

literature

  • Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Self-published by the kb Militär-Max-Joseph-Order, Munich 1966, 140f., 359f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Fuchs:  Mieg (family). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 467-469 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b family Mieg. in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 17. (1994), pp. 467-469.
  3. ↑ Freikorps Epp. in: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria.
personal data
SURNAME Mieg, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mieg, Hans Ritter von; Mieg, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1945
Place of death Wurzburg