Jakob von Danner

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Jakob Ritter von Danner

Jakob Danner , since 1916 Knight von Danner , (born August 7, 1865 in Queichheim , † December 28, 1942 in Munich ) was a German lieutenant general .

Life

family

He was the son of the freight expeditor Ludwig Danner and his wife Karoline, née Reich. Danner married Anna Fuchssteiner on February 1, 1913.

Military career

After taking a humanistic Gymnasium Danner joined on 13 August 1884 as a volunteer Common in the 17th Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian army one. On March 24, 1885, he was appointed portepeef ensign and was subsequently assigned to the Munich War School for a year . Promoted to secondary lieutenant on his return , Danner was appointed regimental adjutant on July 21, 1893 , and as such, premier lieutenant on December 22 of that year . Danner was transferred to the East Asian Expeditionary Corps on July 8, 1900 , with which he fought during the Boxer Rebellion in China .

After his return home Danner took with simultaneous promotion to captain a company in the 20th Infantry Regiment "Prince Franz" and led it until March 1907. As Square Major he knew from March 26 to October 20, 1907 Service in Wuerzburg and was then as a company commander in the 13th Infantry regiment "I. Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary" was added. There he served from February 23, 1910 at the regimental staff and was promoted to major on March 7, 1910 . As such, Danner was appointed commander of the III on March 8, 1912. Battalion in the 18th Infantry Regiment "Prince Ludwig Ferdinand" appointed. Two years later he was transferred to the staff of the 7th Infantry Regiment "Prince Leopold" in Bayreuth .

With the outbreak of the First World War , Danner was appointed commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment "Prince Leopold" , with whom he was on the Western Front at the Battle of Lorraine , then at Ypres in the First Battle of Flanders from October 20 to November 18, 1914 and finally in the position battles in Flanders was used. It was here that he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on September 10, 1914 . On December 31, 1914, Danner was given command of Reserve Infantry Regiment 18, which then moved to the Eastern Front in the spring of 1915 , took part in the breakthrough battle near Lubaczów and the battles near Oleszyce and Dachnow, and at the end of the year back on the French theater of war started. There the regiment fought from July to November 1916 in the Battle of the Somme , and Danner was by King Ludwig III. on December 1, 1916 accepted as a knight in the Military Max Joseph Order . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Danner after being entered in the nobility register .

At the beginning of 1917 the regiment came again to the Eastern Front, this time to Romania . Danner was promoted to colonel on April 17, 1917 and served intermittently as deputy commander of the 15th Reserve Infantry Brigade . As a result of illness, Danner was then no longer fit for duty from November 12, 1917 and was made available to the War Ministry . After his recovery he commanded the Reserve Infantry Regiment 18 again from March 6, 1918. Danner took over the 12th Reserve Infantry Brigade on July 6, 1918 and the 21st Infantry Brigade on October 5, 1918 .

After the end of the war, he was transferred to the provisional Reichswehr , where Danner initially held command of Reichswehr Brigade 24 in Nuremberg from October 1, 1919 . A year later he was appointed head of the Munich city command . As such, he was promoted to major general on July 1, 1921 .

During the Hitler putsch on November 8 and 9, 1923 in Munich, Danner took early and decisive measures against the actors: “It is clear that both the civilian and the military authorities were already resisting the rebels before they left the Bürgerbräukeller by Kahr and Lossow initiated. In the General State Commissariat , the Oberregierungsrat Baron von Freyberg had already ordered all units of the state police to be alerted and the same for the troops of the Reichswehr in Munich and the other Bavarian garrisons . Generals Danner, Kreß and Ruith , gathered in the city headquarters, had agreed to the alarm ordered by Freyberg and had taken initial measures. "

On January 1, 1925, he was promoted to lieutenant general. He left active service on July 31, 1925, and was retired.

Danner was the first president of the Bavarian Warrior Association and later the second president of the Reich Warrior Association Kyffhäuser .

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 3: Dahlmann – Fitzlaff. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1994, ISBN 3-7648-2443-3 , pp. 26-27.
  • Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor 1914-1918. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order, Munich 1966, p. 273.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.perspectivia.net Peter Claus Hartmann (Paris), Der Hitlerputsch (1923) in the judgment of the French legation and embassy reports
  2. ^ A b c d e f g h i Reichswehr Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1924, p. 110.
personal data
SURNAME Danner, Jakob von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danner, Jakob Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Queichheim
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1942
Place of death Munich