Karl von Brug

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Karl von Brug (1912)
Painting by Theodor Pixis : “A thousand meters above Munich”, 1890. Karl von Brug is shown on the far left.

Karl Ignaz Maria Brug , knight of Brug since 1904 , (born June 15, 1855 in Dirlewang , † April 25, 1923 in Garmisch ) was a Bavarian infantry general and founder of aviation in Bavaria.

Life

family

Brug was born the son of a district doctor. In 1888 he married Maria Kübler, with whom Brug had three children.

Military career

Karl von Brug 1914 Manonviller.jpg

He attended the Realgymnasium Augsburg and studied civil engineering at the Polytechnic School in Munich. In 1873 Brug did his one-year service in the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" of the Bavarian Army in Munich and released as a non-commissioned officer in the reserve . Re-employed in 1878, he was taken over as a second lieutenant in the engineering corps and employed in the fortress engineering management. From 1881 to 1884 Brug graduated from the War Academy , which made him qualify for the general staff, the higher adjutantage and the subject. In the further course of his military career he was appointed head of the truck driver and airship department established in 1887 in 1890, and in 1902 chief of the general staff of the 1st Army Corps .

By being awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and the associated elevation to the personal nobility, he was allowed to call himself Knight of Brug from 1904 after being entered into the class of nobility .

As a colonel , Brug commanded the Infantry Body Regiment from October 17, 1905 to September 11, 1906, and then took over the 1st Infantry Brigade when he was promoted to Major General . In March 1909 he was appointed chief of the engineer corps and inspector of the fortresses, and the following year he was promoted to lieutenant general . In 1912, Brug in Munich-Oberwiesenfeld formed the first air corps command under the " Rittmeister der Lüfte" Luitpold Count Wolffskeel von Reichenberg zu Uettingen .

During the First World War , Brug served as General of the Pioneers at Army High Command 6 and in 1916, until he was put on disposition in the same year , as Deputy Chief of the Engineer Corps.

The Technical University of Munich awarded Brug an honorary doctorate in 1918 .

literature

  • Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). C. H. Beck´sche Verlagbuchhandlung. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 415.
  • Catalog of the balloon history collection of Colonel von Brug in the library of the Deutsches Museum: Lust for flight, begin flight, progress flight. Catalog editor Elske Neidhardt-Jensen, Ernst H. Berninger. Nuremberg 1985. ISBN 3-418-00316-8 .
  • Harald Potempa: The Royal Bavarian Air Force 1914–1918. (diss. Munich 1995). Frankfurt am Main 1997. ISBN 3-631-30508-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). C. H. Beck´sche Verlagbuchhandlung. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 415.
personal data
SURNAME Brug, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brug, Karl Ignaz Maria (full name); Brug, Karl Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Dirlewang
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1923
Place of death Garmisch