Johannes Richard Fromm

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Johannes Richard Fromm (born May 15, 1851 in Heiligenstadt ; † May 22, 1914 ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

Richard Fromm was the oldest of the five children of Ludwig Fromm and his wife Therese, née Conradi, who had married in 1848. He attended high school in Magdeburg, where his father worked as a tax inspector, and later the high school in Neustadt an der Saale .

Fromm joined the 4th Company of the Silesian Fortress Artillery Regiment No. 6 of the Prussian Army in 1869 as an avantageur . He took part in the war against France in 1870/71 and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. Before he was 30 years old in 1881, he was promoted to prime lieutenant. The following year he completed a four-month training course at the Jüterbog artillery shooting school . In 1883 he became a captain and the following year company commander . In 1886 he was transferred to the artillery examination commission in Berlin, which he headed. In 1891 he was appointed adjutant to the General Inspectorate of the Foot Artillery . After serving outside the capital in the meantime, as in 1894 in the foot artillery regiment “General-Feldzeugmeister” (Brandenburgisches) No. 3 in Mainz , the military cabinet ordered him back to Berlin in 1896 , where he initially worked as a major and then as a lieutenant colonel in the foot artillery. Department in the War Department headed. From May 18, 1901 to May 18, 1903, Fromm was the commander of the Badischer Fußartillerie-Regiment No. 14 stationed in Strasbourg . In this capacity, Grand Duke Friedrich I awarded him the Commander's Cross, Class II, of the Order of the Zähringer Lion .

He was then appointed inspector of the Technical Institutes of Artillery and promoted to major general on May 17, 1904 . For his work, Fromm received the Red Eagle Order II. Class with Oak Leaves and the Crown Order II. Class with a Star. On January 27, 1908, he was given the character of Lieutenant General. In approval of his resignation request , Fromm was put up for disposition on April 20, 1909 with the statutory pension .

In 1885 he married Clara Fromm, a first cousin with whom he lived first in Strasbourg and later in Berlin. The couple had their first child Erich in 1886, who died after a few weeks, and in 1887 their daughter Barbara († 1890). The following year their second son, who later became the commander of the replacement army, Friedrich Fromm , was born.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard R. Kroener : Colonel General Friedrich Fromm: the strong man in the homeland war area; a biography. Schöningh, 2005, p. 28.
  2. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 3: The occupation of the active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or list up to August 26, 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 . P. 321.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 50 of May 21, 1903, p. 1261.
  4. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 60 of May 19, 1904, p. 1474.
  5. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 52 of April 22, 1909, p. 1194.
  6. ^ Bernhard R. Kroener: Colonel General Friedrich Fromm: the strong man in the homeland war area; a biography. Schöningh, 2005, pp. 41-45.
personal data
SURNAME Fromm, Johannes Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiligenstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1914