Hermann von Burkhardt

Karl Friedrich Hermann Burkhardt , since 1918 Knight von Burkhardt (born August 26, 1861 in Lehrberg , † September 9, 1942 in Würzburg ) was a Bavarian artillery general .

Life

Burkhardt was the son of a district court doctor . After attending grammar school , he joined the 2nd field artillery regiment "vacant Brodesser" of the Bavarian Army in Würzburg on October 1, 1879 as a three-year-old volunteer and was promoted to secondary lieutenant until mid-November 1881 . From October 1, 1888 to September 30, 1890, Burkhardt was assigned to the equitation institute in Munich . After his return, he was promoted to prime lieutenant . After Burkhardt had become a captain on November 7, 1890 , he was appointed battery chief six days later . On October 1, 1901, he was transferred to the staff of the 11th Field Artillery Regiment . At the same time as his promotion to major , Burkhardt took over a division in his main regiment on September 30, 1903. He held this position until his transfer on July 20, 1906 to the inspection of the technical institutes. As a lieutenant colonel (since July 22, 1908), Burkhardt was appointed commander of the 12th field artillery regiment in Landau in the Palatinate on March 26, 1909 and promoted to colonel on May 26, 1910 .

He served from 22 April 1912 as commander of the 4th Field Artillery Brigade , was born on March 27, 1913 Major General and led the association with the outbreak of World War I on the Western Front . On April 23, 1916, Burkhardt took command of the 10th Infantry Division fighting on the Somme as a reserve of the XIV Reserve Corps . After a month of service in the Battle of the Somme , his division moved to the Eastern Front and took part in the campaign against Romania in the Dorna Watra area. Here he was promoted to lieutenant general on October 19, 1916 . From April 12 to September 29, 1917 he was then commander of the replacement division with which he took part in the battle of the Aisne and was able to distinguish himself particularly here. Wilhelm II then awarded him the order Pour le Mérite on May 12, 1917 . Burkhardt was then transferred to the 5th Reserve Division as their commander . In 1918 King Ludwig III awarded him . the Commander of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . With the award the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself "Ritter von Burkhardt" after the entry in the nobility register .

After the end of the war, Burkhardt was commissioned from December 14, 1918 to January 4, 1919 with the management of the General Command z. b. V. 57 and then put him on leave until further notice. On June 10, 1919, he was entrusted with the management of the general in command of the II Army Corps and, as such, was at the same time head of the Reichswehr command post in Bavaria and state commander in Bavaria from August 20, 1919. In this capacity he was responsible for transferring the Bavarian troops to the Reichswehr . He was released from this position on October 1, 1919, put Burkhardt at the disposition and retired two months later, while at the same time conferring the character of General of the Artillery.

In 1932 Burkhardt was a candidate of the German National People's Party for the constituency of Lower Franconia (6th constituency of Würzburg I) in the Bavarian state elections , but was not elected.

literature

• Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 235-236.
• Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume 1: A-L. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935, pp. 176–177.
• Joseph Karl Brennfleck: The Royal Bavarian 2nd Field Artillery Regiment Horn. Verlag Max Schick, Munich 1939, pp. 494–495.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (ed.), Joachim Lilla : Der Bayerische Landtag 1918/19 to 1933. Nominations - Composition - Biographies. Volume 21, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7696-0421-4 , p. 117.