Heinrich von Maur

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Heinrich von Maur

Karl Theodor Alexander Heinrich von Maur (born July 19, 1863 in Ulm , † April 10, 1947 in Stuttgart ) was a German officer , most recently general of the artillery .

Life

In 1881 Maur joined the field artillery regiment "Prince Regent Luitpold von Bayern" (2nd Württembergisches) No. 29 , where he was promoted to second lieutenant on February 5, 1883 . With simultaneous promotion to colonel , he was appointed commander of his regular regiment on March 22, 1913.

With the outbreak of World War I , his regiment mobilized and was initially deployed on the Western Front . Here it took part in the battles at Longwy , the Meuse crossings and the Varennes. Then the regiment was transferred to northern France and fought near Lille and Ypres . Withdrawn from the front at the beginning of December 1914, continued deployment in Poland and here in the battles of Łowicz- Sannicki and the Rawka - Bzura .

On December 24, 1914, Maur gave up his command and was appointed commander of the 79th Reserve Field Artillery Brigade of the 79th Reserve Division . As such, he was able to prove himself for the first time during the winter battle in Masuria . This was followed by the battles on Bobr and the positional battles near Augustow . In midsummer 1915 the front started moving again with the storming of the Kovno fortress . This was followed by the Njemen Battle and, until the beginning of October 1915, the Battle of Vilna . On the line reached Krewo - Smorgon , the brigade then went back to trench warfare . Here, on January 27, 1916, Maur's promotion to major general took place . On June 5, 1916 he returned to the Western Front and took over the 26th Reserve Field Artillery Brigade, which he also commanded during the Battle of the Somme . For a short time, Maur acted as artillery commander No. 122 from February 1917, only to be appointed commander of the 27th Division (2nd Royal Württembergische) on March 12, 1917 . At this time the association was used as a training division in the Valenciennes - Solesmes leadership course and then entered the fighting there on the Arras front during the spring battle. The division was able to hold the section assigned to it at Bullecourt against a numerically far superior enemy equipped with tanks and repel all attacks by British and Australian forces. For these successes, Maur was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite on May 20, 1917 .

After almost three months of positional warfare, the division then took part in the Third Battle of Flanders . In the spring, the association took part in the 2nd Army in the spring offensive and was able to achieve greater gains in terrain before it went back into defense. Most recently she fought in the defensive battle on the Meuse until the armistice came into force.

After the end of the war, Maur led his division back home, where the association was first demobilized and finally dissolved. Subsequently, on October 1, 1919, Maur was entrusted with the management of the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps . He held this position until November 3, 1919, when he retired while simultaneously conferring the character of Lieutenant General .

From 1924 to 1938 Maur acted as President of the Württemberg Warrior League. On September 13, 1936, Maur joined the SS (membership number 276.907), in which he last served as SS-Obergruppenführer (since July 19, 1944). He was also a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1937 ( membership number 5,890,310).

Maur received the character of general of the artillery on August 27, 1939, the so-called Tannenberg Day.

Awards

literature

  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-L. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935, pp. 23-25.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2516-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm von Leeb: Diary entries and assessments of the situation from two world wars. ed. by Georg Meyer, Stuttgart 1976, p. 126.
  2. ↑ a b 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. 148.
  3. ↑ Otto von Moser : Die Württemberger in the world wars. 2nd expanded edition, Chr.Belser AG, Stuttgart 1928, p. 117.
  4. ↑ Württemberg Military Ordinance Gazette. No. 43 of August 18, 1916, p. 462.
  5. ↑ Württemberg Military Ordinance Gazette. No. 49 of October 17, 1916, p. 647.
  6. ↑ Württemberg Military Ordinance Gazette. No. 15 of March 22, 1917, p. 104.
  7. ↑ Württemberg Military Ordinance Gazette. No. 51 of November 23, 1917, p. 393.
personal data
SURNAME Maur, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maur, Karl Theodor Alexander Heinrich von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently general of the artillery
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1947
Place of death Stuttgart