Hugo Karl August Bacmeister

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Hugo Karl August Bacmeister (born March 4, 1862 in Herford ; † March 18, 1937 in Hanover ) was a Prussian major general in the First World War .

Life

The son of the Prussian lieutenant colonel Lucas Heinrich Bacmeister (1820-1884) and his wife Luise, nee Poggenpohl (1826-1885), descended from the fourth generation of Eberhard Bacmeister , the progenitor of the East Frisian line of the Bacmeister family , attended the cadet institute in Bensberg and the Main Prussian Cadet Institute in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin . He then joined the 5th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 53 in 1882 , just like his older brothers Ernst (1853-1938) and Felix August (1861-1919) . He soon rose to the rank of battalion and regimental adjutant at the Aachen and Cologne locations and was promoted to captain and company commander of this regiment in 1896 .

After his transfer as adjutant to the 30th Division in Strasbourg , Bacmeister was promoted to major in 1904 and entrusted with the establishment of the expedition corps for the suppression of the uprising of the Herero and Nama in German South West Africa . Bacmeister was awarded the South West Africa Medal for these preparations for battle . Two years later he was appointed battalion commander of the 4th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 164 in Hameln . After a general staff training, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the staff of the infantry regiment "von Stülpnagel" (5th Brandenburgisches) No. 48 in Küstrin , whose leadership he had to take over several times on behalf of his commander.

After Bacmeister had been promoted to colonel in 1913 and appointed commander of the infantry regiment "Keith" (1st Upper Silesian) No. 22 in Gleiwitz , he had to join his regiment in the First World War a few months later . His regiment was ordered to the western front and the VI. Reserve Corps under the 5th Army . Bacmeister was wounded at the Battle of Longwy in August 1914, but was soon able to take part in the 11th Reserve Division's Argonne Offensive after a brief recovery period in Luxembourg . At Christmas 1914 he took command of the 67th Infantry Brigade of the 33rd Division and six months later that of the 43rd Reserve Brigade of the 22nd Reserve Division . As commander of these major formations, he took part in the battles for Verdun and the Somme in 1916 and, from summer 1917, in the Third Battle of Flanders .

On January 27, 1917, Bacmeister was finally promoted to major general and in August of the same year entrusted the management of the 48th Landwehr Division , which he switched to the 7th Reserve Division in May 1918 . In 1918 he took part with his division in the battles for Soissons and Reims before he was transferred to a quieter post in June of that year as commander of the recruiting depot of the 9th Army . After this army had been disbanded, Bacmeister took over the command of the deputy 84th Infantry Brigade in Lahr for a short time before he was retired with the pension of a division commander.

For his military service, Bacmeister was awarded a total of 13 war medals, including both classes of the Iron Cross . After the war, the unmarried Bacmeister spent the rest of his life in Hanover, where he and his brother, the retired Major General Ernst August Max, were increasingly concerned about the concerns of the family association founded in 1925. Hugo Bacmeister died after a stroke on March 19, 1937 and was buried in the Stöcken city cemetery.

literature

  • Clamor Freiherr von dem Bussche-Ippenburg: The family chronicle of the Bacmeister from Lower Saxony. Part I-V, 1904.

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