Horst von Oetinger

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Günther Horst Sylvester Ritter and Edler von Oetinger (born December 31, 1857 in Erfurt , † September 27, 1928 in Baden-Baden ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Horst was the son of the later Prussian major general Günther von Oetinger (1821–1881) and his wife Franziska, née Klien (1824–1901).

Military career

Oetinger occurred on 15 February 1877 ensign in the Queen Elizabeth Grenadier Guards Regiment. 3 of the Prussian army in Charlottenburg one. There he was on 15 September 1877 Ensign appointed and on 12 October 1878 to second lieutenant promoted, and as such as from 1 April 1881 adjutant of Fusilier - battalion used. For further training the commanding of which followed from 1 October 1887 to 21 July 1890 Institute of War and its interim promoted to first lieutenant in 1888. After March 22, the brief return to the troop service commanded you Oetinger from 1 April 1891 for two years for the Great General staff to Berlin. As a captain , he then took over a company in his main regiment. On November 14, 1895, Oetinger was placed à la suite of the General Staff and transferred to the secondary budget of the General Staff. Until 1902, Oetinger had various general staff assignments, such as the first general staff officer of the 1st division in Königsberg and in the same function with the 5th Army Corps in Posen . In the meantime promoted to major on March 25, Oetinger was transferred to the Fusilier Regiment "Queen" (Schleswig-Holsteinisches) No. 86 on October 18, 1902 , where he was appointed commander of the 2nd Battalion in Flensburg a month later . In mid-March 1905 Oetinger was reassigned to the General Staff and at the same time he was assigned to the General Command of the V Army Corps. After his promotion to lieutenant colonel on September 15, Oetinger finally became chief of the general staff there on October 17, 1905. He held this position until April 30, 1908, in order to then take over command of the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 stationed in Berlin . When he was promoted to major general on March 22, 1912, he was appointed commander of the 55th Infantry Brigade in Karlsruhe .

When the First World War broke out , Oetinger was initially assigned to the officers of the army and the deputy general command of the XIV Army Corps due to illness . After his recovery he was appointed commander of the Liège Landwehr division on August 22, 1914. A month later he gave up command and took over as commander of the 20th Division , with which he took part in the trench warfare of the X Army Corps on the Aisne . On the emperor's birthday, Oetinger was promoted to lieutenant general.

In April 1915, the division moved to the Eastern Front in Galicia and participated in the Bug Offensive in conjunction with the 11th Army . At the end of August 1915, Oetinger had to surrender the command because he was seriously ill with Asian cholera . After a stay in the Bialla field hospital and the restoration of his health, Oetinger was then commander of the newly established 109th Division . With her he was first used in the 8th Army in front of Jakobstadt . In the months that followed, several attacks by Russian forces were successfully repulsed there. At the end of October 1916, the company was relocated to Romania in the Balkans . Initially deployed in the border battles in the volcanic mountains, the division fought successfully in the battle of Szurduk and Târgu Jiu . From December 1 to 5, 1916, the Romanian army was defeated again at Rimnicul-Sarat in the Battle of the Argesch and after the persecution and capture of Bucharest . In January 1917, Oetinger's division took part in the battle of the Putna in the conquest of the well-developed Russian positions, then advanced against the Sereth , rejected counter-attacks there several times and went into position warfare. In December 1916 he was awarded the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves and Swords.

On January 23, 1917, Oetinger gave up command and became the leader of the IX. Army Corps appointed. With the corps he took part on the Western Front, first with the 1st Army , then with the 2nd Army in the fighting in the Siegfriedstellung . In the 18th Army , Oetinger led his corps at the beginning of the 1918 spring offensive in the breakthrough battle at St. Quentin - La Fère against the enemy positions and fought his way up to the Somme . For the success of his corps, Oetinger was awarded the order Pour le Mérite on March 26, 1918 , which Wilhelm II personally presented to him on the market square in Ham .

From the end of September 1918 the corps in Lorraine was involved in the positional battles there with the 19th Army . From here Oetinger led his troops back home after the Compiègne armistice and demobilized his corps in Altona . At his request, Oetinger has become on February 3, 1919 disposition made and received on 20 October 1919 be character as General of Infantry. He was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

family

Oetingen married Helene Bender (* 1869) in Berlin on October 5, 1888.

Awards

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweig: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2516-2 , pp. 523-524.
  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935, pp. 88-89.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 10, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1942], DNB 986919810 , p. 127, no. 3121.
  2. ^ Research Institute for War and Army History (Ed.): The World War 1914–1918. Volume 11: The warfare in the autumn of 1916 and in the winter of 1916/17. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1938, p. 266.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 117 of December 30, 1916, p. 2743.
  4. ^ Research Institute for War and Army History (Ed.): The World War 1914–1918. Volume 12: The warfare in the spring of 1917. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1939, p. 138.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914, p. 92
  6. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1908. Second year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 739.
personal data
SURNAME Oetinger, Horst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oetinger, Günther Horst Sylvester Ritter and Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1928
Place of death Baden-Baden