Hermann von Strantz

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General of the Infantry Hermann von Strantz
Resting place in Dessau

Hermann Christian Wilhelm von Strantz (born February 13, 1853 in Nakel an der Netze , † November 3, 1936 in Dessau ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

His parents were the Prussian major Hans Friedrich Bogislav von Strantz (1820–1895) and Alexandra Friederike, b. von Münnich (1829-1892).

After attending cadet schools in Culm and Berlin joined Strantz 1870 at the outbreak of the Franco-German War as Portepee ensign in the Body Guard Grenadiers Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm III." (1. Brandenburg) no. 8 , took the war against France, was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1871 . From 1876 to 1880 he attended the War Academy in Berlin and was promoted to Prime Lieutenant in 1879 . After a command at the General Staff , he was appointed adjutant in the 27th Infantry Brigade belonging to the 14th Division . Promoted to captain , he was in 1886 for chief of the 1st (mild) or 9th Company of Füsilierbataillons of the 1st Foot Guards on foot in Potsdam added. Promoted to major in 1891 , he was transferred to the Great General Staff in Berlin. He then worked as a general staff officer of the 2nd Guards Division before returning to his old Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 8 in 1893 as battalion commander .

Promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1897 , he changed to the staff of the 1st Guards Regiment on foot. Strantz came to Landwehr District III Berlin in 1899 as a regimental commander . In the following year he moved to the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot as a colonel and commander .

In 1903 he took command of the 2nd Guard Infantry Brigade in Potsdam as major general . In 1906 he was promoted to lieutenant general and commander of the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) division in Darmstadt . As a general of the infantry he was commanding general of the 5th Army Corps in Poznan from 1911 .

First World War

During World War I he was on 10 September 1914 in addition to his position as Commanding General of the Fifth Army Corps simultaneously commander of the army division Strantz coming out of the left wing of the 5th Army was formed and on the Western Front between Maas and Mosel used came. Their headquarters were in the Château de Moncel near Jarny in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department .

On February 2, 1917, he was replaced by General Max von Boehn and put up for disposition . In addition, he was appointed chief of the 3rd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 50 .

Hermann von Strantz had been married to Elisabeth von Ende (1870–1936) since 1891 .

Awards

literature

  • [Feldzeitung] Between the Maas and the Moselle. Strantz Army Department. ed. from the high command of the Strantz Army Department, Siegburg approx. 1914–1917.
  • Holm Kirsten: The Soviet special camp No. 4 Landsberg / Warthe. ed. from the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-952-X .
  • Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook (arrangement): Genealogical manual of the noble houses. Noble houses A. Volume IV. (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume 22 of the complete series), Glücksburg 1960.
  • Hanns Möller : The history of the knights of the order “pour le merite” in the World War 1914-1918. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 66
personal data
SURNAME Strantz, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strantz, Hermann Christian Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Nail on the netting
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1936
Place of death Dessau