Jean-Marie Degoutte
Jean-Marie Joseph Degoutte (born April 18, 1866 in Charnay , Département Rhône ; † October 31, 1938 ibid) was a French officer, most recently Général de division .
Life
Born the son of a farmer, he attended the Lyceum in Bourg-en-Bresse . In 1887 he went to the military and first came to the 30th artillery regiment. From October 1888 he attended the Saint-Cyr Military School and after graduating served four years in the 4th Zouave Regiment in Tunisia. In 1895 he volunteered for a mission in Madagascar , but was not admitted, whereupon he traveled there on his own and learned Malagasy. At the intervention of Maurice Bailloud , he was finally released from the arrest that his insubordination had led to. After his promotion to Capitaine , he was assigned to the 21 e régiment d'infanterie to prepare for the École supérieure de guerre , which he attended from 1899. In the same year he interrupted his studies to participate as a volunteer under General Bailloud in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion . In 1902 he returned to the École de guerre to finish his studies.
In 1905 Degoutte served on General Bailloud's staff in Algiers, later temporarily in his home country. In 1911 he took part in the occupation of Morocco and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1912 . After studying at the Center des hautes études militaires of the General Staff, he became Chief of the General Staff of the IV Army Corps at the beginning of the First World War . At the beginning of 1916 he became Chief of Staff of the 4th Army and, after his promotion to Général de brigade in August of that year, received command of the 1st Moroccan Division. Before the Battle of Malmaison in October 1917, he was appointed General Command of the XXI. Army Corps appointed.
After the successes of the German spring offensive in 1918 on the Aisne , he replaced General Denis Auguste Duchêne in June as Commander-in-Chief of the 6th Army , with which he took part in the Second Battle of the Marne . From September 1918 Degoutte served in Flanders as Chief of Staff of the Belgian King Albert I. After the armistice , he again took over the 6th Army, with which he occupied the left bank of the Rhine.
In October 1919 Degoutte was appointed Commander in Chief of the French Army on the Rhine and at the same time a member of the Conseil supérieur de guerre . He resided in the Deutschhaus in Mainz . Degoutte campaigned for a complete occupation of the Ruhr area when Germany fell behind with its reparations payments and carried out the order during the Ruhr occupation . After the withdrawal of the French had been decided in the Dawes Plan of 1924, he demanded his recall and was replaced by Adolphe Guillaumat . In his honor, the Mainz "General Feldzeugmeister" barracks of the former foot artillery regiment No. 3 was renamed Caserne Degoutte . He spent the last years of his military service until 1931 as designated commander-in-chief of the Armée des Alpes and campaigned for the reinforcement of the Maginot Line on the border with Italy.
Fonts
- L'occupation de la Ruhr (1924)
Web links
- Biography on cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr
- Curriculum vitae on the website of the Lyon Military Museum (French)
- Newspaper article about Jean-Marie Degoutte in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Degoutte, Jean-Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Degoutte, Jean-Marie Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charnay , Rhône department |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1938 |
| Place of death | Charnay , Rhône department |