Julius List

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Alfred Julius Eduard List (* 19th December 1864 in Munich , † 31 October 1914 in Gheluvelt , West Flanders ) was a Bavarian officer , recently colonel and commander of the Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 , in which Adolf Hitler during World War I as a Soldier served.

Life

List was the son of a study inspector and professor in the Cadet Corps .

He attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich until his Abitur in 1882 and then joined the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" of the Bavarian Army as a three-year-old volunteer . On March 24, 1883 he was made ensign and on March 24, 1885 promoted to lieutenant . As such, List was a battalion adjutant from 1889. From 1892 to 1895 he graduated from the military academy , which pronounced him qualification for the higher adjutantage and the subject. List was then adjutant of the 1st Infantry Brigade and was promoted to captain on October 28, 1899 . In 1901 he returned to his main regiment as a company commander , stayed there until 1905 and then became adjutant of the General Command of III. Army Corps . In this position he was promoted to major on October 26, 1906 and in 1908 he was transferred back to the 1st Infantry Regiment "König". List worked here as a battalion commander, was transferred to Lieutenant Colonel on March 7, 1912 and, as such, to the staff of the 12th Infantry Regiment “Prince Arnulf” . On March 27, 1913 he was finally commander of the Landwehr District I Munich and on January 7, 1914 promoted to colonel .

After the outbreak of World War I, he was appointed commander of the newly established Reserve Infantry Regiment 16. List was severely wounded in the chest at the three-day battle of Gheluvelt on October 31, 1914 at the beginning of his regiment's front service and died on the same day of his shrapnel injury in the palace gardens of Gheluvelt. He was buried there for the time being. After the war he was reburied. Today his bones rest in a mass grave at the Langemark war cemetery.

literature

  • Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 511.
  • The mirror . No. 10 of March 5, 2011. p. 45.
  • Thomas Weber : Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War. (German: Hitler's First War: Der Gefreite Hitler in the First World War - Myth and Truth. ) Propylaen Verlag. Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-549-07405-3 . Paperback (2012): ISBN 978-3548611105 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1881/82.
  2. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 511.
personal data
SURNAME List, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES List, Alfred Julius Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian officer, most recently colonel and commander of the Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 in World War I.
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1914
Place of death Gheluvelt , West Flanders