Hermann Steinbuch

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Hermann Steinbuch as a corps student, around 1882

Hermann Steinbuch (born January 19, 1863 in Zurich , † September 29, 1925 in Bischofszell ) was an officer and high corps commander of the Swiss Army .

Life

Hermann Steinbuch was the son of a deputy director of the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt , Johann-Friedrich Steinbuch von Stuttgart, and his wife Albertine, nee. Esslinger, from Zurich. He attended high school in Zurich, studied law at the university there from 1882 to 1884 and became a member of the Corps Tigurinia .

In 1886 he joined the Swiss Army as a lieutenant and in the same year was commanded to serve in a Cologne infantry regiment. In 1890 he became a captain in the general staff , to which he belonged with brief interruptions until he was appointed division commander (1911). From 1896 to 1898 he was in command of the 6th Rifle Battalion and from 1898 to 1904 Chief of Staff of the VI. Division (temporarily under the command of Ulrich Wille ) and from 1906 to 1910 Commander of Infantry Brigade XI. In 1911 he was appointed colonel division and commander of the 5th division. Ferdinand Sauerbruch treated a leg injury sustained during large-scale maneuvers in autumn 1912, which he directed . In 1919 he became the commandant of the III. Army corps and at the same time inspector of Gotthard troops and air troops.

Between 1888 and 1912 Steinbuch was also a member of the instruction corps, was a shooting instructor in Walenstadt from 1907 to 1909 , at times also a district instructor in the 1st division in Lausanne and a district instructor in the 5th division in Zurich. Quarry's successor was Arnold Biberstein (1865–1934).

The Zürcher Illustrierte reported on the funeral service that took place in the Fraumünster Church.

His younger sister Marie Steinbuch (1864–1940) later became a writer.

literature

  • A. Züblin: Colonel Corps Commander Hermann Steinbuch. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 3, 1925
  • FA Held: Colonel Commander Hermann F. Steinbuch †. In: Deutsche Corpszeitung. 43 (1926/27), pp. 123-127
  • Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland. Volume 6, Neuchâtel 1931, p. 531
  • German corps newspaper. 64 (1963), p. 237.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 144 , 167.
  2. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 164.
  3. ^ Arnold Biberstein (1865–1934): Biberstein, Arnold. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Funeral service for Hermann Steinbuch. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Steinbuch, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1925
Place of death Bischofszell