Hans von Werder

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Hans von Werder
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Hans Karl August Leopold von Werder (born November 16, 1867 in Schleswig ; † May 8, 1923 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian colonel and commander of the 81st Infantry Brigade in the First World War .

Life

origin

Hans came from the old noble family von Werder . He was the son of the later Prussian infantry general Hans von Werder (1834-1897) and his wife Rosalie, née von Albrecht.

Military career

Werder came after high school on March 17, 1887 as a cadet in the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot in Berlin and became a year later to second lieutenant promoted. After attending the War Academy , he was given a two-year command of the Great General Staff . As a captain he was in 1901 in the General Staff of the VI. Army corps transferred to Breslau . In the following years he was a general staff officer of the 11th Division , also stationed in Breslau , the Poznan command , in the Great General Staff and again in the VI. Army Corps. He performed his troop service as a company commander in the 4th Guards Regiment on foot and, with promotion to Major , was appointed battalion commander by the 7th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 96 in Gera . On January 27, 1914, Werder was promoted to lieutenant colonel as deputy regimental commander .

With the mobilization he joined the High Command (AOK) of the 4th Army as first general staff officer and followed it in the battles near Neufchâteau , on the Maas and Marne . On September 18, 1914 Werder for was stages - inspection of the 8th Army in the East added, before being named chief of staff on 12 December 1914 I Reserve Corps was appointed.

Disagreements caused his replacement and transfer to XXI on May 3, 1915 . Army Corps . For his achievements in fighting the Corps as the Siege of Kovno , the Njemenschlacht , the battle of Vilnius and the trench warfare between Castle Krewo - Smorgon - Naroch - Tweretsch , he received the end of November, the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords .

On November 12, 1916, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Foot Guards Regiment. During the Battle of the Somme he was promoted to colonel on August 18, 1916 and, at the request of the commander of the 1st Guard Infantry Division , Prince Eitel Friedrich , was awarded the Order of the Crown, Second Class with Swords , for his leadership . Ten days later, on the day the Romanian declaration of war , he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the newly established General Command No. 52 , from December 1916 - it had crossed the Danube - with the designation Danube Army , under General Kosch . Among other things, it should excel at the Battle of the Argesch . The occupation of Bucharest was a consequence of the battle.

On December 12, 1917, he was appointed to the rank of brigade commander to that of the 81st Infantry Brigade in Lübeck . For the leadership of his brigade in the Battle of Kemmel during the Ypres Battle , Werder was submitted to the order Pour le Mérite by the commander of the 17th Reserve Division , Major General Albert von Mutius . Since the commanding general Karl Dieffenbach and the army leader Friedrich Sixt von Armin support the cause, Werder was awarded the highest Prussian valor award by the highest cabinet order of May 3, 1918.

After he led his brigade at Soissons , Reims and Noyon , defensive battles between Somme and Oise ensued . At the end of the war it was in Alsace-Lorraine . The grandson of General August von Werder , who had once conquered Strasbourg , had to hand the fortress over to France on November 21, 1918 , when he left it at the head of the Lübeck infantry regiment in the direction of Kehl .

November 30, 1918

The Regiment Lübeck returned on the morning of November 26, 1918, from guard duty during the transitional period to the Lorraine Alsace- Strasbourg around coming to the Hauptbahnhof home. In the official ceremony on 30 November at the market next mayor welcomed Fehling as representatives of the Senate, also Dimpker , spokesman for Citizenship, Retyfeldt as a member of the Soldiers 'Council and the editor Stelling as a representative of the Workers' Council which returned home regiment. However, only remnants of this were left. His officers had already left the regiment. Since the regimental commander , Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Hauss , was ill, the commander of the command of the 81st Infantry Brigade , Colonel v. Werder, them on behalf of the regiment.

Werder had made themselves available to the voluntary 17th division . On February 21, 1919 he was entrusted with the leadership of the voluntary Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89 and appointed its commander. Together with division commander Johannes von Busse , last peace commander of Grenadier Regiment No. 89, he visited the association in Ludwigslust in April . Since Neustrelitz had ceased to exist as a garrison , its battalion was disbanded in the course of the summer and distributed to the other battalions. With the transformation to a transitional army, the army strength was limited to 200,000 men. This meant that the Grenadier Regiment No. 89 would be disbanded. With the dissolution of the regiment, Werder took his leave on November 22nd, 1919 and was put up for disposition on foot wearing the uniform of the 2nd Guards Regiment .

Werder died in 1923 of complications from pneumonia .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Hans von Werder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Otto Dziobek : History of the Lübeck Infantry Regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 . First edition 1922.
  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 491–492.
  • Wolfgang von Werder: History of the Brandenburg-Magdeburguischen family of Werder. 3rd volume. Publishing house for genealogical research U. Starke, 1937.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 521-522.
  • Ernst Zipfel : History of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89. Printed and published by the Bärensprungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1932, pp. 471–472.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max von Bock: list of the officers' corps of the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot 19.6.1813-15.5.1913. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, p. 226.
  2. ^ The homecoming of the Lübeck regiment. ; In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1918/19, No. 5, edition of December 8, 1918, pp. 17-19.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 269.
  4. ↑ Lübeck city archives in terms of Senate files: Directory of the owner of the Lübeckischen Hanseatic Cross. Signature 1093, document number 5256.
personal data
SURNAME Werder, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werder, Hans Karl August Leopold von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian colonel, brigade commander and knight of the Pour le Mérite
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1923
Place of death Potsdam