Hermann von Giehrl

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Hermann Giehrl , since 1918 Knight von Giehrl , (born September 22, 1877 in Munich ; † February 20, 1923 in Deutsch Krone ) was a German lieutenant colonel and military writer.

Life

Family and origin

Giehrl was the son of the later Bavarian Lieutenant General and Chief of the Army General Staff Maximilian von Giehrl (1840-1896) and his wife Georgine, née Narcissus. His father was raised to the personal nobility in 1893 by being awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .

Giehrl married Paula Thäter on July 2, 1904. The daughter Johanna (* 1905) emerged from the marriage. In 1939 she married the later German major general Hermann Schaefer (1885–1962).

Military career

After visiting the cadet corps on July 11, 1896, Giehrl joined the 2nd Infantry Regiment "Crown Prince" of the Bavarian Army in Munich as a portepeefähnrich . There he was promoted to second lieutenant in June 1898 . From 1903 to 1906 he graduated from the War Academy , which made him qualified for the general staff, brigade adjutantur and the subject ( war history ). In 1907 Giehrl became adjutant of the Munich II district command and in the following year he was assigned to the central office of the general staff as first lieutenant . At the same time he was also active as an assistant teacher at the war academy in 1911. He was transferred to the Central Office of the General Staff from mid-September 1912 onwards for two years to the Prussian General Staff in Berlin . There he became a captain at the end of October 1912 .

When the First World War broke out , Giehrl initially acted as an observation officer for a guided airship in Königsberg . On October 12, 1914, he was transferred to Army High Command 8 and at the beginning of December 1914 assigned to the staff of the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army. Giehrl took part in the winter battle in Masuria and the battle of Gorlice-Tarnów and in September 1915 joined the General Staff of the I. Reserve Corps . This was followed by other general staff assignments. He rose to major in January 1917 , and from the end of July to the end of December 1917 he taught at the General Staff Course in Sedan . Giehrl then came to the General Staff of the IX. Reserve Corps and on June 22, 1918 to the General Staff of the XVI. Army Corps . Here he acted as First General Staff Officer of the General Command . For the planning of the defensive battle in the area of ​​the group "Perthes" as well as the repeated relocation of the front, in which the Aisne was crossed without significant losses , Giehrl received the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order on October 9, 1918 . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself "Ritter von Giehrl".

After the end of the war he was called back to the War History Department of the Great General Staff in Berlin. Taken into the Reichswehr in the winter of 1919 , Giehrl served as head of the news department in the Reichswehr Ministry until 1920 . On October 4, 1921 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and in spring 1922 as commander of the III. Battalion in the 4th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment transferred to Deutsch-Krone. He died in this position on February 20, 1923.

During his active service Giehrl worked as an author of war history writings. From 1920 he was also the editor of the military magazine Wissen und Wehr .

Fonts

  • The general Napoleon as the organizer. Considerations about his means of communication and communication, his way of working and giving orders. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1911.
  • Weissenburg and Wörth. A representation of both battles with walks across the battlefields. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1913.
  • Free balloon and zeppelin rides. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914.
  • The war against Russia until the peace of Brest-Litovsk. Walther Rothschild Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1920.
  • The American Expeditionary Force in Europe 1917-18. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1922.
  • Tannenberg. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1923.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon . Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914. Part II: The Imperial Protection Force and its Officer Corps . Cuvillier Verlag , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86727-473-9 , p. 166.
  2. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 447.
personal data
SURNAME Giehrl, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giehrl, Hermann Ritter von (full name); Giehrl, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and military writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1923
Place of death German crown