Karl von Riedl

Karl Riedl , knight of Riedl since 1915 , (born June 9, 1862 in Memmingen , † November 20, 1919 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lieutenant general in the First World War .

Life

family

He was the son of the district court director Andreas Riedl and his wife Aline, nee Mayr. Riedl married Emma Preusser on June 20, 1899. The marriage had three children.

Military career

Riedl, coming from the cadet corps , joined the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" of the Bavarian Army on August 7, 1880 as a portepeefähnrich . After successfully attending the Munich War School , he was promoted to secondary lieutenant on November 23, 1882 and transferred to the 8th Infantry Regiment . In the following years he served in his regiment and from October 1, 1888 he was assigned to the War Academy for three years , which made him qualify for senior adjutantship and the subject (tactics). After returning to his regiment, Riedl was promoted to prime lieutenant on November 21, 1891 and transferred to the 10th Infantry Brigade as an adjutant the following year . In this position promoted to captain on November 7, 1896 , Riedl was appointed company commander in the 4th Infantry Regiment "King Wilhelm of Württemberg" on November 5, 1897 . In position à la suite of this regiment , he was appointed adjutant of the 5th Division in Würzburg on December 17, 1899 . After Riedl had become major on March 8, 1905 , the following year he was given command of a battalion in the 16th Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany" and on October 17, 1905, he became the 23rd Infantry Regiment "King Ferdinand der Bulgarians ” . June 5, 1907 to April 22, 1911, he was then commander of the Military Academy in Munich and has since August 12, 1908. Lieutenant Colonel and on October 23, 1910. Colonel promoted. As such, he was subsequently appointed commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig von Hessen" in Bamberg , Riedl gave up this command on March 27, 1913 and was appointed commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade in the fortress a day later Metz . In this position he was promoted to major general on January 7, 1914 .

With the outbreak of World War I, his brigade mobilized on August 2, 1914 and took part in the Battle of Lorraine with the 6th Army . This was followed by further fighting on the Western Front . On August 21, 1915, Riedl was due to his "prudent, wise and with great determination carried out troop leadership in the battles at Étain , Warcq and Lanhéres " with effect from August 24, 1914 by King Ludwig III. accepted into the Military Max Joseph Order . With the award of the knight's cross the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Riedl after his entry in the nobility register . The year 1915 was otherwise of position battles marked in Combres and in the forest of Lamorville as well as battles with Eparges. At the beginning of 1916 the trench warfare continued on the Meuse heights, followed by the fighting at Saint-Mihiel .

On July 24, 1916 Riedl gave his brigade and was appointed commander of position in fighting in the Champagne lying 22nd Reserve Division appointed. In November 1916 he fought with his division in the Battle of the Somme , before the large unit went back to trench warfare and Riedl finally relinquished command on December 19, 1916. He was then appointed commander of the 39th Reserve Division on December 22, 1916 and promoted to lieutenant general on January 17, 1917. After trench warfare in Upper Alsace , he also gave up this large formation and was finally appointed commander of the 6th Infantry Division on September 30, 1917 . He made the trench warfare in Flanders and Artois and from March 21, 1918 took part in the German spring offensive. After the offensive had stalled after initial successes and had to be broken off, his division returned to trench warfare. During the fighting off Verdun, Riedl fell seriously ill on May 25, 1918 and had to be relieved. Therefore, he received no further command during the war.

After the end of the war , Riedl was put up for disposition on May 8, 1919 and died in the same year. He was buried in the family grave in the Südfriedhof in Munich.

literature

• Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 554.
• Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor 1914–1918. Self-published by the kb Military Max Joseph Order. Munich 1966. pp. 67, 387f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 554.
2. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 157/158 of August 31, 1915. p. 3718.