Hilmar von Mittelberger

Hilmar Mittelberger , since 1917 Knight von Mittelberger (born December 19, 1878 in Munich , † September 22, 1953 in Schliersee ) was a German infantry general .

Life

origin

Hilmar was a son of the Bavarian lieutenant and inspector at the inspection of the military educational institutions Andreas Mittelberger and his wife Mathilde, née Schmid.

Military career

After attending the humanistic grammar school in Munich, Mittelberger joined the 13th Infantry Regiment "Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary" of the Bavarian Army in Ingolstadt in mid-July 1897 as a volunteer . After successfully attending the war school , he advanced to lieutenant at the end of October 1899 and graduated from 1906 to 1909 for further training at the war academy , which gave him the qualification for the senior adjutantage, the department and railroad service and, very conditionally, for the general staff. In March 1910 Mittelberger rose to lieutenant , was from October 1910 to September 1913 as an adjutant to the district command in Deggendorf and then to the central office of the general staff in Munich.

With the mobilization on the occasion of World War I to the captain transported Mittelberger was as orderly officer at the 6th Infantry Division engaged and experienced the Battle of the Frontiers in Lorraine and the following battles in France. At the beginning of January 1915 he was transferred to the 8th Reserve Division as second general staff officer and in the following year he came as first general staff officer to the 3rd infantry division under Lieutenant General von Wenninger . In this capacity, Mittelberger was awarded for his assistant work during the battle of Arras and the creation of a deeply structured defense position in the Monchy section on April 23, 1917 by King Ludwig III. entrusted with the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order . With the award the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself "Ritter von Mittelberger" after the entry in the nobility register .

From November 1917 to July 1918 Mittelberger was a staff officer in a special position in the 2nd Army and then as a major first general staff officer in General Command 63 in the occupation army in Romania . After the end of the war he was interned in Romania in Kronstadt from December 1918 and in Serbian internment from February to the end of July 1919. Mittelberger was taken over to the provisional Reichswehr on October 1, 1919 , was initially a consultant in the Reichswehr Ministry as well as a tactics teacher at the infantry school in Wünsdorf , then in Munich. After his promotion to lieutenant colonel , he was battalion commander in the 21st (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment in Bayreuth from March 1923 to February 1925 . This was followed by a position as first general staff officer at Group Command 2 in Kassel , until he was transferred back to Berlin on January 17, 1927 as head of the Army Organization Department (T 2) in the troop office of the Reichswehr Ministry. Mittelberger was promoted to colonel and on October 1, 1929 was appointed inspector of the weapons schools (In 1), which was directly subordinate to the chief of the army command, Colonel General Wilhelm Heye . In this position he rose to major general in March 1930 and lieutenant general in January 1932 and left the Reichswehr on February 1, 1933.

After his departure, Mittelberger received the character of General of the Infantry on June 23, 1933 and worked from March 1, 1933 to October 1, 1939 as an advisor to the Turkish government and tactics teacher at the War Academy in Istanbul .

After the Second World War , Mittelberger wrote his memoirs in three volumes under the title Wanderer in vier Welten, Lebenserinnerungen 1878–1945 , which are in manuscripts in the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (N 40 / 10-12).

family

Mittelberger had married Emma Kapp on September 21, 1903. The marriage produced three daughters, including the archivist Herta Mittelberger.

literature

• Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 525.
• Rudolf von Kramer, Otto von Waldenfels : VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Self-published by the kb Militär-Max-Joseph-Order, Munich 1966, DNB 457284803 , pp. 185, 360.

Web links

• CV and book excerpt. In: Institute for Contemporary History .
• Mittelberger, Hilmar von, Ritter in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on June 13, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 525.
2. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian General Staff (1792-1919). Series of publications on Bavarian regional history, Volume 122, CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-10703-6 , p. 310.