Helmuth Bohm

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Helmuth Bohm (born January 14, 1873 in Nemischhof , Brandenburg province , † April 25, 1933 in Berlin-Wannsee ) was a German lieutenant colonel . He received the highest honorary award in the Kingdom of Prussia  - the Pour le Mérite .

Life

Military career

Bohm joined the 84th Infantry Regiment in 1890 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1892 . In 1906 he held a leading position as captain and adjutant of the 32nd Infantry Brigade , and in 1911 he was appointed company commander in the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 . On April 22, 1914 he was promoted to major to the officers à la suite of the army and was appointed adjutant to the President of the Reich Military Court while retaining his previous uniform . At the same time he acted as an extra-official military member of the Reich Military Court.

Battalion commander in IR95

With the outbreak of the First World War , Bohm was released from this post and then returned to his regiment. As a battalion commander in the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95, he took part in the fighting on the Eastern and Western Fronts. For example at the Battle of the Aisne and then at the campaigns in southern and northern Poland. During the Narew offensive in the summer of 1915, he and his battalion contributed to the success of the German armies . He was also able to record military successes in the defensive battles of 1916 and 1917 on the Western Front. The achievements of his battalion in the Battle of Flanders under his leadership earned him the Knight's Cross of the Hohenzollern House Order with Swords at the end of August 1917 .

Commander of the RIR 32

On November 2, 1917, when he was appointed commander of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 32 , Bohm left his battle-tested unit. He used the winter of 1917/18 to train the new regiment belonging to the 113th Division , which proved to be beneficial in the following spring offensive. The German spring offensive of 1918 began on March 21, 1918. After the breakthrough at St. Quentin- La Fere, his unit advanced as part of the 18th Army to the Somme and opened the river crossings in the area of ​​the 113th Division.

At Pargny , Bohm and his regiment crossed the river, but encountered strong resistance as they advanced northward, which affected the advance of the right wing of the 6th Division fighting at Licourt .

The “Operations Department” then made the following report: “ After Major Bohm had carefully explored the location of the English machine-gun nests on Ludwigsweg in person, he led two batteries assigned to him in flanking firing positions on the other bank and shot them from there he personally entered the goals he had determined, went back to his battalions on horseback despite the strongest enemy fire and led them to the storm. The consequence of his resolute, prudent action was once the removal of the Ludwig bolt and, as a further consequence, the fall of the tenaciously defended Somme crossing from St. Christ ”.

When the military cabinet then sent a telegram to the Army High Command and asked for an answer in the same way as to whether Bohm could expect an application for a special medal in view of his performance at Licourt, the award of the order Pour le Mérite was requested.

Commander of the 36th Fusilier Regiment

After the dissolution and restructuring of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 32, Bohm was appointed commander of the Fusilier Regiment "General Field Marshal Graf Blumenthal" (Magdeburgisches) No. 36 on August 7, 1918 . He was at its head for two months until a serious wound forced him to relinquish the leadership.

Acting as adjutant to the President of the Reich Military Court

Due to his wounding, Bohm was released from active service on October 4, 1918. After recovering from health, he returned to his peacetime position on February 22, 1919, as adjutant to the President of the Reich Military Court. At the end of October 1919, he was transferred to Reichswehr Group Command 1 to take over a position in the Reichswehr, but two months later he was referred back to the Reich Military Court. With its dissolution, he received his departure on September 30, 1920.

On 13 October 1920, it was character as Lt. Col. granted with the permission to wear the uniform of IR95.

Awards

Due to his services at Licourt on May 5, 1918, Bohm was awarded the order Pour le Mérite. He was also the recipient of the following awards:

Web links

Commons : Pour le Merite Bearer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buchholzmühle-Nemischhof-Kreis Arnswalde.de.Retrieved on November 23, 2016
  2. ↑ Infantry Regiment von Manstein (Schleswigsches) No. 84 -Link to wiki-de.genealogy.net
  3. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 57/58 of April 26, 1914, p. 1230.
  4. ↑ 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 -Link to wiki-de.genealogy.net
  5. ↑ Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 32 -Link to wiki-de.genealogy.net
  6. ^ The March on Paris and the Battle of the Marne 1912 -Somme transition from St. Christ / - Link "Google Books" .de
  7. ^ History of the Knights of the Poul le Merite Order in World War II. 2 volumes by Hanns Möller, Verlag Bernhard & Graefe, Berlin 1935, pp. 117–118
  8. ↑ Werner Müller : "The Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 32 in the World War", from Germany's great times, vol. 20, Zeulenroda i. Thür. 1931, p. 225.
  9. ↑ Füsilier-Regiment General-Feldmarschall Graf Blumenthal (Magdeburgisches) Nr.36 -Link to wiki-de.genealogy.net
  10. ↑ Thuringian Main State Archive Weimar, online
  11. ↑ Antiques & Historica Carsten Show - PDF document with 38.1 MB - accessed on June 23, 2016
  12. ↑ Duke Carl Eduard Medal -Ehrenzeichen-orden.de
  13. ↑ Stephen Thomas Previtera: Prussian Blue / A History of the Order Pour le Merite . Winidore Publications. 2005. ISBN 0-9673070-2-3 . Pages 300-303.
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and knight of the "Pour le Mérite"
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Nemischhof , Brandenburg Province
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1933
Place of death Berlin-Wannsee