Horst Edler from the Planitz

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Horst Edler from the Planitz

Karl Eugen Horst Edler von der Planitz (* 11. August 1859 in Dresden , † 9 June 1941 ) was a Saxon general of the infantry in the First World War .

Life

family

Grave of Horst Edler von der Planitz in the Loschwitz cemetery

Horst was the second child of Karl Albert Eugen Edler von der Planitz (1827–1866), who had died near Königgrätz , and his wife Antonie, née Maass.

Military career

In 1877, Planitz joined the “Prince Georg” Rifle Fusilier Regiment No. 108 of the Saxon Army and was then an officer in the battalion and regimental adjutant in the 6th Infantry Regiment No. 105 . After attending the Prussian War Academy , various general staff assignments followed. From 1904 to 1906 he was department head in the Saxon War Ministry . In this role he was promoted to colonel in 1905 . As such, he took command of the Rifle Fusilier Regiment No. 108 on January 22, 1906 and was promoted to major general on March 23, 1910 . At the end of September of the same year he was given command of the 2nd Infantry Brigade No. 46 of the 1st Division No. 23 . A year later, on September 23, he became Chief of the Army General Staff. At the beginning of February 1913 he became lieutenant general and at the end of March took over the 3rd Division No. 32 .

He led this at the beginning of the First World War , including during the Battle of the Marne . During the war he was given command as Commanding General of the XII on April 17, 1916 . (I. Royal Saxon) Army Corps transferred. On April 5, 1917 he was appointed General of the Infantry. From November 23rd, shortly after an illness in September of that year, he commanded the XXV. Reserve Corps and the last from December 15, 1917 to July 24, 1918, the XII. (Royal Saxon) Reserve Corps .

Due to illness, Planitz applied for his departure in July 1918 and was then put up for disposition on July 18, 1918 .

family

Planitz was married twice. On November 6, 1892, in Bautzen , he married Marga Hermine von Koppenfels (1871–1917), the daughter of the royal Saxon president of the regional court Heinrich Ferdinand von Koppenfels (1829–1893). From this marriage a son emerged, Karl Ferdinand Horst (1893–1945). After the death of his first wife, on September 5, 1922, he married Hertha von Funke (1883–1964), the daughter of Ferdinand von Funcke auf Kieritzsch and widow of the royal Saxon government councilor Victor Freiherr von Ferber, who died in 1904 .

Awards

literature

  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume I: A-L. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935, pp. 129–130.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility. Noble houses A. Volume VII, 1965, complete series Volume 34, CA Starke Verlag.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ XII Army Corps , German War History.
  2. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs-Orden 1736–1918, A Ehrenblatt of the Saxon Army , Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch-Stiftung, Dresden 1937, p. 105.
  3. ^ Army Pour le Merite Winners , alphabetical overview.
  4. ^ Hanns Möller: History of the Knights of the Order pour le mérite in World War I , Volume I, Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1935, p. 130.
personal data
SURNAME Planitz, Horst Edler from the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Planitz, Karl Eugen Horst Edler from the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon general of the infantry in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1941
Place of death Dresden