Hermann Delius (General)
Hermann Delius (born December 25, 1854 in Münster , † December 27, 1941 in Stolberg in the Harz Mountains ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .
Life
He was the son of the District President Eduard Delius and his wife Mathilde, née Gronarz.
On October 1, 1872, Delius joined the Pioneer Battalion No. 4 of the Prussian Army in Magdeburg as an officer candidate and thus began his military career. There he served until he was promoted to captain on December 13, 1888. He then became chief of the 4th Company of the Kurhessian Pioneer Battalion No. 11 . This was the first time he came into contact with field telegraphy. Very soon he recognized the importance of the transmission of messages for warfare and from then on advocated the establishment of an independent telegraph force with great personal commitment . In 1891 he was transferred to the second engineer inspection as adjutant to the general inspection of the engineer and pioneer corps and as a processor of field and fortress telegraphy. There Delius was entrusted with the training of officers and NCOs in field telegraphy.
There his demands for an independent telegraph force had an initial success. In each engineer battalion a "telegraph detachment" was set up, which was about the size of a telecommunications train. On September 12, 1895, Delius was promoted to major and in March 1896, relieved of his command, was transferred to the Baden Pioneer Battalion No. 14 at the General Inspection. In the following year Delius became director of the "Military Telegraph School" in Berlin, which had now been founded . There he achieved the formation of the first three telegraph battalions in 1899; in 1899 he was appointed commander of the Telegraph Battalion No. 1 in Berlin-Treptow . By 1905 the telegraph force was increased to seven battalions and combined in two inspections.
In 1900 he was appointed commander of the No. 3 Railway Regiment in Berlin. In 1902 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and in 1905 he became a colonel . In 1907 he became inspector of the second inspection of the telegraph force in Karlsruhe . This was followed on March 23, 1908, when he was appointed inspector for the inspection of field telegraphy in Berlin. In this post he was promoted to major general on January 27, 1909 , until he was finally put up for disposal on March 19, 1911 in approval of his resignation request with a pension . That same year, he was still character as Lieutenant General awarded.
Even in his retirement, Delius maintained close contact with his comrades. During the mobilization in 1914 on the occasion of the First World War , he made himself available again voluntarily. However, Delius did not receive any troop command, but was used as an inspector of the prisoner-of-war camps in the area of the Deputy IV Army Corps .
He spent his old age in Stolberg in the Harz Mountains and died there on December 27, 1941. There he was buried with great sympathy and with military honors.
In an obituary, the General of the Intelligence Troop, Erich Fellgiebel, attested that he was “... a real visual gift for the needs and development of this extremely important leadership force!”
The Inspector of the Intelligence Force, Major General Thon, praised him as "... a firm, military personality, strict and just: a whole man, an excellent soldier who himself achieved extraordinary things and demanded the same from his subordinates!"
Honors
In 1938 the barracks of the news department 43 in Potsdam was renamed "Delius barracks". The general noted this "... with a sense of proud satisfaction and deep gratitude ..." .
In honor of the intellectual creator of today's telecommunications troops, the Mayen garrison barracks were given the name "General-Delius-Kaserne" on August 25, 1964 and carried it until they were renamed "Oberst-Hauschild-Kaserne" on November 17, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Military weekly paper . No. 26 of March 21, 1896. p. 704.
- ^ Military weekly paper. No. 38 of March 22, 1911. p. 872.
- ↑ German Officer Association (Ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1926. p. 696.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delius, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian lieutenant general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1941 |
| Place of death | Stolberg in the Harz Mountains |