Karl Héraucourt

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Karl Héraucourt (born August 30, 1860 in Bergzabern , † June 28, 1942 in Wiesbaden ) was a German medical officer .

Life

As a Rhineland Palatinate , he studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich after graduating from high school . In December 1881 he became a member of the Transrhenania . He fought two lengths and a Pro Patria against the Leipziger Landsmannschaft Grimensia in Munich. He moved to the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg and in the meantime served as a one-year volunteer . After he had passed the medical state examination in Strasbourg in 1887 , he was approved . As a doctor in Strasbourg , he was philistised on July 4, 1887 . In 1888 he joined the Prussian Army , initially as an assistant doctor in the field artillery regiment No. 31 in Hagenau in Alsace . From 1890 as an assistant doctor, 1st class in the field artillery regiment No. 15 in Strasbourg, he became a medical officer and battalion doctor in the 2nd Upper Rhine Infantry Regiment No. 99 in Zabern in 1893 . In 1896 he was transferred to Ratzeburg and in 1899 to Münster . Since 1902 chief medical officer in Celle , he came to Marienburg in 1910 . During the First World War , Héraucourt took part in the hussar regiment "Emperor Nicholas II of Russia" (1st Westphalian) No. 8 , most recently as a division doctor of the 9th Cavalry Division . In 1917 he was dismissed from the army as a general senior physician due to a heart condition drawn in the field and was employed in the garrison service as the hospital director of the Paderborn reserve hospital . After the end of the war, in 1919, he became a contract doctor at the Paderborn supply hospital. In 1921 he retired. In 1928 he moved to Wiesbaden.

Since August 4, 1920, he was taken over as an old man with colors in the Hohen Kösener Seniors' Convents Association . During Transrhenania's suspension, Héraucourt was a member of the old comradeship "von der Pfordten" founded on June 19, 1938 . He died suddenly and unexpectedly in June 1942 while walking in Wiesbaden. Héraucourt had been married since 1894 and had a daughter and two sons, including the Anglicist Will Héraucourt .

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Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 115/53.
  2. ^ Obituary by Héraucourt II, supplement information sheet Kameradschaft (Corps Transrhenania) 1941