Joseph Louis Marie Andlauer

Andlauer (around 1919/1920)

Joseph Louis Marie Andlauer (born May 19, 1869 in Fontenay-le-Vicomte , † February 7, 1956 in Paris ) was a French general and chief employer of the French military administration of the Saar region in 1918/19 .

Family seat of the Andlauers in Andlau

Life

Andlauer's father was the organist of the Catholic Church in Andlau in Alsace , where the family home is located. Andlauer attended the Saint-Cyr Military School from 1887 to 1889 . On October 1, 1889, he began his military career as a sub-lieutenant in the marine infantry . In the 1890s he served in Sudan , then in the 2nd regiment of the Tirailleurs sénégalais . In the following years he rose continuously. With the start of the war in 1914 he was in command of the 305th Infantry Regiment, and from November 1914 to June 1916 he was Brigadier General in command of the 126th Infantry Brigade. He rose to division general and was during the Battle of Verdun from June 20, 1916 to July 2, 1917 commander of the 63rd Infantry Division on the eastern Meuse section. Between December 12, 1917 and February 1919, he finally commanded the 18th Infantry Division. During the Meuse-Argonne offensive in the XVII. Subordinated to the Corps (under General Henri Claudel), on October 8, 1918, he covered the right wing of the 29th US Division breaking across the Meuse near Consenvoye .

After the First World War Andlauer was appointed Colonel-General conveyed. From February 17, 1919 to November 20, 1919, Andlauer was then head of the French military administration in the Saar region ("Administrateur supérieur de la Sarre"). Between June 4, 1929 and July 2, 1930 he was commander of the XXXII. Corps. After the Second World War , Andlauer was back in the Saar region: In May 1946 he was President of the “Association française de la Sarre”.

progeny

Andlauer had five sons and a daughter, of whom he survived two sons.

• Jacques François Eugène (1899–1918): Military medal , Croix de guerre , fallen for France on October 22, 1918 at the age of 19.
• Philippe Marie Joseph (1900–1944): Legion of Honor , military medal, croix de guerre, enterprising person and excellent draftsman, died a slow death in 1944 as a result of the gas war at the front during the First World War in 1918.
• Maurice Auguste (1902–1981): Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre, Médaille de la Résistance with Rosette, head of the network during the war in 1939, together with his wife Joséphine, b. Bachasse Dufier (Médaille de la Resistance).
• Pierre Henri (1904–1990): Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre, colonial medal , pilot in the Indochina War , then plantation owner and citrus grower in Morocco.
• Gabrielle Jeanne (1909-1998)
• Louis Jacques Victor (1919–1999): Legion of Honor, Ordre de la Liberation , Croix de guerre, Croix de la Valeur militaire , Médaille de la Résistance with rosette, Distinguished Flying Cross , pilot and flying legend

Honors

• February 7, 1894: Knight of the Legion of Honor
• July 13, 1915: Officer of the Legion of Honor
• October 12, 1918: Commander of the Legion of Honor
• December 28, 1928: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
• December 14, 1949: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor
• Croix de guerre
• Médaille Interalliée de la Victoire
• Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914–1918
• Médaille coloniale (Sudan)
• Army Distinguished Service Medal

literature

• Gérard Géhin, Jean-Pierre Lucas: Dictionnaire des généraux et amiraux français de la Grande Guerre (1914-1918)

Web links

• Andlauer in the French National Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Clemans Zimmermann, Rainer Hudemann, Michael Kuderna: media landscape Saar. From 1945 to the present . Volume 1, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich, 2010, p. 40, ( Google Books )
2. ^ Hans-Walter Herrmann, Georg Wilhelm Sante: History of the Saarland . Ploetz Verlag, 1972, p. 32
3. ↑ Source: Franz. Wikipedia