Hartwig von Eichendorff

This article deals with Lieutenant General Hartwig von Eichendorff. For the governor (around 1625–1683) see Hartwig Erdmann von Eichendorff .

Coat of arms of those von Eichendorff

Hartwig Erdmann Julius Rudolph Freiherr von Eichendorff (born April 12, 1860 in Sedlnitz , † April 12, 1944 in Hünern ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Hartwig came from the originally Magdeburg , later Silesian-Moravian noble family von Eichendorff . He was the son of the captain a. D. and manor owner Rudolph Freiherr von Eichendorff (born April 19, 1819 in Breslau ; † January 18, 1891 in Fulnek ) and his wife Maria Amalia Ferdinande, née Thymian (born September 26, 1832 in Oliva ; † February 15, 1912 in Liegnitz ). His grandfather was the poet Joseph von Eichendorff .

Military career

Eichendorff was born on his family's Moravian estate. On March 31, 1879, he joined the 2nd Silesian Grenadier Regiment No. 11 of the Prussian Army in Breslau as a flag junior . After he had been promoted to NCO on August 20 and appointed Portepeefähnrich on October 10, 1879 , Eichendorff was promoted to Second Lieutenant on October 14, 1880 . From April 1, 1883 to March 31, 1886 he was a battalion adjutant and from October 1, 1886 to February 28, 1887 he was sent to the military gymnasium in Berlin . During that time, Eichendorff was transferred to the 2nd Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 76 on November 4, 1886 with a patent from October 14, 1879 . From November 21st to December 17th, 1887 he was assigned to a class at the rifle factory in Danzig . Eichendorff then served from April 6, 1888 to September 30, 1890 as an adjutant at the Hamburg District Command , where he was promoted to Prime Lieutenant on February 16, 1889 . From October 1, 1890 to August 22, 1893, he attended the War Academy in Berlin. While being promoted to captain , Eichendorff was transferred to the Fusilier Regiment "General-Feldmarschall Graf Moltke" (Silesian) No. 38 in Glatz on September 14, 1893 . At the same time he was appointed company commander. He was then transferred to the infantry shooting school in Spandau from July 29 to August 31, 1898 . On July 20, 1901, he received a post-dated patent from August 17, 1893.

During the mobilization for the First World War , Eichendorff was a colonel and commander of the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich I." (4th East Prussian) No. 5 with garrison in Danzig . At the end of August 1914, he took part in the Battle of Tannenberg with his regiment in the 36th Division . He was appointed commander of the 34th Infantry Brigade on May 25, 1915. On June 6, 1916, Eichendorff was promoted to major general and as such succeeded Lieutenant General Alfred von Besser as commander of the 47th Reserve Division on April 26, 1917 . The division returned to the Western Front in early May 1917 from fighting in the Woyrsch Army Detachment near Baranowitschi . It was used in the Toul area on the Remenauville- Regnieville line until the beginning of June . After the Battle of the Aisne, in June 1917, they consolidated the positions of the 7th Army on the Chemin des Dames , until the end of November 1917 the division consisted of trench warfare on the Ailette .

From March 21, 1918, Eichendorff's division fought in the German spring offensive on the south wing of the 18th Army . His division advanced in the association of the group "Gayl" over the Oise from the area La Fère to the west. On March 22nd, she crossed the Crozat Canal near Tergnier . Until March 24th, the division occupied Chauny and strengthened the action of the now superordinate group “Conta” ( IV Reserve Corps ) on Noyon and Lassigny.

After the relocation to the 7th Army in the Laon area , Eichendorff's division took part in the advance across the Vesle to Soissons on May 28th . His division stood as a reserve in the association of the VIII. Reserve Corps ( "Wichura" group ) and took part in the advance on Villers-Cotterêts on June 2 . The division then remained as a reserve in the hinterland of Hartennes until mid-July. After the Allied counter-offensive, the necessary retreat behind the Aisne took place. The division defended a Vesle section of the heavily crowded front between Soissons and Reims until the end of July and was then pulled out. On August 2, 1918, the division in Lorraine was dissolved.

The Allies' final offensive began on August 8, 1918 , and then the Compiègne armistice was concluded on November 11, 1918.

family

Eichendorff married Ida Luise Josephine Maria Vetter von der Lilie on November 21, 1894 in Neuhübel (born January 13, 1863 in Neuhübel; † February 13, 1945 in Dresden ). The marriage had three children:

• Elisabeth Ida Josephine Maria (born February 9, 1896 in Schweidnitz ; † September 13, 1976 in Bremen-Ense ) ⚭ 1921 in Sopot Oskar Maria Graf Strachwitz Freiherr von Groß-Zauche and Camminetz
• Rudolf Hartwig Erdmann Felix Joseph Paul (born March 26, 1897 in Schweidnitz, † January 4, 1964 in Soest )
• Marie Josephine Antonia Therese (* July 15, 1900 in Neuhübel; † January 7, 1959 in Neheim-Hüsten ) ⚭ von Wallhoffen

Awards (incomplete)

• Red Eagle Order IV class

literature

• Georg Freiherr von Eichendorff Graf Strachwitz: 222nd birthday of Joseph von Eichendorff. In: Eichendorff booklets. No. 29/2010, pp. 6-25. (Digitized version)
• Genealogical paperback of the baronial houses. Verlag Perthes Gotha , 1932, p. 143.
• Harry von Rège : Officer master list of the infantry regiment No. 76. Mauke, Hamburg 1902, OCLC 252978009 , p. 127.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of officers of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps 1917. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1917, p. 6.
2. ^ Reichsarchiv: The World War 1914-1918. Volume XIV, pp. 126f.
3. ^ Reichsarchiv: The World War 1914-1918. Supplement volume XIV. Location maps Supplement 18, 24.
4. ↑ Harry von Rège: Officer list of the infantry regiment No. 76. Mauke, Hamburg 1902, p. 127.