Hasso von Wedel (General, 1859)

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Hasso Sebastian Georg von Wedel (born April 25, 1859 in Berlin , † January 31, 1935 in Rathen ) was a Prussian lieutenant general in the First World War .

Life

origin

Hasso came from the old noble family von Wedel . He was the son of Karl von Wedel (1828–1877) and his wife Valeska, born von Prittwitz and Graffron (1837–1911). The father was a Prussian lieutenant colonel as well as a permanent heir and Görlitz.

Life

Wedel kicked of education in the cadet corps on 14 April 1877 ensign in the 4th Brandenburg Infantry Regiment. 24 (Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin) of the Prussian army in Neuruppin one. Here he was promoted to Second Lieutenant on October 12, 1878 and as such was transferred to Berlin on January 29, 1884 on foot in the 4th Guards Regiment . From October 1, 1887 to July 21, 1890 Wedel was commanded to the War Academy , where he had meanwhile become Prime Lieutenant on March 22, 1888 . He then did troop service again, only to be assigned to the General Staff from April 1, 1891 to March 31, 1893 for further training . As a captain , Wedel acted as a company commander in his regiment from June 2, 1893 . With the simultaneous promotion to major Wedel became adjutant of the 1st Guard Division on September 12, 1902 . He held this position until August 18, 1905. He then took over as commander of the III. Battalion of the Guard Fusilier Regiment . Wedel gave this command on January 26, 1908 with the transfer to Hirschberg , where he took over the Jäger Battalion "von Neumann" (1st Silesian) No. 5 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 20, 1909. Wedel was then transferred to Königsberg after three years of service , where he was appointed commander of the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm I" (2nd East Prussian) No. 3 while being promoted to colonel .

With this he went into the field after the outbreak of the First World War in association with the 1st Division on the Eastern Front . Here he came into action for the first time at Stallupönen and was able to avoid the threat of being surrounded by the Russians by bringing the enemy movement south of Göritten to a halt with two battalions of his regiment and a field artillery division . Then he went over to the counterattack and was able to throw the enemy back. This was followed by participation in the battles near Gumbinnen and Tannenberg . During the Battle of the Masurian Lakes Wedel was appointed commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade on September 11, 1914 . In the following weeks the brigade was involved in border fighting and marched into Poland in November 1914 , where it fought in the battles near Łowicz and on the Rawka east of Bolimow . On December 24, 1914, he was promoted to major general .

In January 1915 Wedel came to Hungary with his brigade and took part in the battle in the Carpathians . During the Battle of Stryj , which took place in May 1915 , Wedel narrowly escaped captivity during an exploratory ride . In mid-March 1916 Wedel and his brigade were detached from the front and relocated to the western front near Verdun . Here she was briefly deployed, only to return to the eastern theater of war in July 1916. When he was appointed commander of the 5th Division , Wedel returned to the Western Front on September 7, 1916, which at that time was in Champagne . During the Battle of Verdun he was able to prove himself several times. After the following trench warfare , it was then used in the 1st Army in mid-April 1917 in the double battle of Aisne-Champagne . Then the division was relocated to the east again in early July 1917. For the achievements of his division in the following battles as far as the Sereth , Wedel was received by the leader of the General Command z. b. V. 51 Albert von Berrer submitted to the order Pour le Mérite , which was awarded to him on August 27, 1917.

Then he came with his division to the Italian front . As a result, during the Battle of Tolmein, the Italian lines were broken, the Monte Hum and the main Italian work, the Monte Spinh and the Castel del Monte were stormed. Even during the Battle of Udine , the division remained victorious and crossed the Tagliamento . Briefly withdrawn from the front to recuperate, she was army reserve and then rejoined the Venetian mountain fighting . His superior General Eberhard von Hofacker submitted it for his services to the oak leaves of the Pour le Mérite, which Wedel was awarded on November 24, 1917.

In mid-December 1917 it was transported back to the Western Front, where the division of the 18th Army took part in Operation Michael . They won at St. Quentin - La Fere that exceeded Somme to the line Montdidier - Noyon and then joined again in early April in the trench warfare over. Then she came to the 7th Army and took part with this in the battle of Soissons and Reims , before the division had stormed the Chemin des Dames and only came to a halt again on the Marne . There she went back to trench warfare.

On June 30, 1918 Wedel was promoted to lieutenant general and only three days later transferred to the army officers. He then submitted his resignation and was put up for disposition on August 6, 1918, with the award of the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves and swords .

family

On November 25, 1886, he married Doris von der Mülbe (1863–1944), a daughter of Lieutenant General Otto von der Mülbe (1829–1916).

Awards

literature

  • 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. 580-510.
  • 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. 479-482.
  • Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . New episode. Volume XXV: Around the Baltic Sea 4. Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2007, plates 76, ISBN 978-3-465-03545-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reichsarchiv (ed.): The World War 1914–1918. Volume 2: The Liberation of East Prussia. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1925, p. 74.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 165.
personal data
SURNAME Wedel, Hasso von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedel, Hasso Sebastian Georg von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Lieutenant General in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1935
Place of death Rathen