Heinrich von Bünau (General, 1873)

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Heinrich von Bünau (born September 27, 1873 in Altona , † August 15, 1943 in Potsdam ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the infantry .

Life

Heinrich von Bünau came from the primeval noble family of those von Bünau . He was the eldest son of the Prussian Colonel Heinrich von Bünau (1841-1910) and Helene born. from Dittmar.

On March 22, 1892, Bünau came from the cadet corps as a second lieutenant in the Kaiser Franz Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 2 . From October 1, 1895 he acted as an adjutant of the 1st Battalion and after his transfer to the Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 5 on April 1, 1897 , he also worked there in the same function. Bünau was then a regimental adjutant from April 17, 1899 to October 4, 1904, and as such became first lieutenant on August 18, 1900 . He was then used as an adjutant of the 5th Guard Infantry Brigade . Bünau was then promoted to captain on September 13, 1906 and seven months later company commander in the Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 5. He held this post until his transfer as adjutant of the 37th Division on October 1, 1913.

With the outbreak of World War I and mobilization , Bünau and the division were initially used in border battles. Bünau was promoted to major there on August 19, 1914 and on June 22, 1915 commander of the 2nd Battalion of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 227 . Due to an injury sustained on November 2, 1915, he had to give up his command. After a stay in the hospital and recovery, he was given command of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Guards Regiment on August 5, 1916 . Just one month later he was detached and appointed commander of the Jäger battalion "Graf Yorck von Wartenburg" (East Prussian) No. 1 . Bünau took over the Jäger Regiment No. 4 on April 29, 1917 and was wounded again on April 6, 1918 during the German spring offensive . He was fit for duty again on July 14, 1918 and became commander of the infantry regiment “Margrave Karl” (7th Brandenburgisches) No. 60 . He retained this command beyond the end of the war and the return of the troops to their homeland.

Bünau was initially taken over into the provisional Reichswehr and from February 24, 1919 was deployed as the 2nd staff officer at the infantry school in Munich . For one year he served there from 6 December 1919 as a teacher and then as head of the course II. In this role you had him on 1 October 1920, Lieutenant Colonel and on February 1, 1922 Colonel promoted. Bünau was transferred from November 1, 1922 to December 31, 1923 to the headquarters of the 4th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in Kolberg . On New Year's Day 1924, Bünau took up his position as commander of the 17th Infantry Regiment in Braunschweig . He received his last command on November 1, 1926 when he was appointed Infantry Leader III in Berlin . Bünau was dismissed from active service on January 31, 1929 and retired while at the same time being awarded the character of Lieutenant General .

Heinrich von Bünau was SS-Oberführer since August 20, 1942 (membership number 421.185).

On 27 August 1939 the so-called Tannenbergtag , Bünau received the character as General of Infantry awarded.

His son Heinrich , born in 1906, became district administrator of the Allenstein district in 1939 and was a member of the FDP state parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate from 1963 to 1971 .

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  1. http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/lista4/lista4.html
  2. a b Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Son , Berlin 1914, p. 109
  3. a b c d e f g h i Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1924, p. 114