Karl von Schoch
Karl Philipp Ludwig Schoch , since 1915 Knight von Schoch (born August 5, 1863 in Nuremberg , † October 10, 1940 in Berlin ) was a Bavarian lieutenant general and politician (DVP).
Life
origin
His great-grandfather was the Swiss revolutionary Johann Felix Schoch (1768–1817), who was sentenced to death, and his grandfather was the manager of the Steingaden military foal farm, Johann Erhard Schoch (1788–1839). He was the youngest son of Karl Wilhelm Schoch (1821–1868), Colonel in the Bavarian General Staff, and his wife Marie, née Heymann from Nuremberg . His brothers Gustav , Albert and Emil were also generals in the Bavarian Army.
Military career
After attending the humanistic Max Gymnasium in Munich , Schoch joined the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army on October 1, 1882 as a three-year-old volunteer and officer aspirant . In 1885 he was accepted as a lieutenant in the 2nd Infantry Regiment . His further training led him to the War Academy in 1894/97 , which made him qualified for the General Staff and the subject. Following this, Schoch worked as an assistant teacher at the Munich War School. Captain since September 1899 , he was transferred to the Central Office of the General Staff in the same year before joining the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps in 1900. In 1902 Schoch returned as a company commander to the 2nd Infantry Regiment for a year and then received a position in the General Staff Department of the War Ministry .
In 1906 Schoch - promoted to major on August 20, 1905 - was assigned to the Great General Staff in Berlin, of which he was a member until 1908. At the same time, Schoch was an extra-budgetary member of the Bavarian Senate at the Reich Military Court . From 1909 to 1911 he was director of the Bavarian War Academy. Further promotions he achieved in these years were the appointments to lieutenant colonel in October 1908 and colonel on October 15, 1910, and a year later the appointment as commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment "Prince Leopold" in Bayreuth. His brother, Colonel Albert von Schoch, succeeded him as director.
In the First World War , Schoch, who had been promoted to major general on January 7, 1914 , took part in August 1914 as commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade. On August 26, 1914, he was awarded the Military Max Joseph Order for supporting a Prussian division on the Western Front . From February 1, 1915, he was allowed to call himself a Knight of Schoch due to the associated award of personal nobility . In 1915 he took part as commander of the 21st Infantry Brigade (Kneutzel Division) in the breakthrough of Gorlice , the reconquest of Przemyśl , the Danube crossing at Cemessziget and in the Serbian campaign of that year. In 1916 he was involved in the storming of the Avocourt forest near Verdun , where he became seriously ill. In 1917 he was appointed lieutenant-general and inspector-stages of the army division A called. In October 1917 he was appointed commander of the replacement division . In January 1918 he was entrusted with the leadership of the 3rd Infantry Division , with which he took part in the storming of Piedmont and the Chiescourt Forest near Noyon in June 1918 .
On January 29, 1919, Schoch was put up for disposal and released from the army at his own request.
Civil life
In the same year he joined the newly founded German People's Party (DVP). From June 1920 to May 1924 he sat in the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic on his party's proposal for a Reich election .
In 1922 Schoch took over the chairmanship of the DVP in Bavaria.
Since January 1919, Schoch was a member of the board of the Bavarian Association of the German Officers' Association. In addition, he headed the Munich Delbrück district until his death in 1940.
family
Schoch married Mathilde Bohn on September 13, 1897 in Aschaffenburg, with whom he had a son. In his second marriage, Schoch married on October 23, 1919 in Munich Elisabeth, widowed Schirmer, née Keller.
Awards
In addition to the Military Max Joseph Order, Schoch received the following awards:
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Grand Commander of the Order of Military Merit
- Order of the Red Eagle II class with swords in 1916
- Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown
- Wuerttemberg Frederick Order
- Hungarian Military Merit Cross 2nd Class in September 1916
- Iron crescent
Fonts
- Stresemann in memory. 1930.
- Hindenburg, the father of the fatherland. Lübeck 1932, illustrated edition Berlin 1934.
literature
- 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 Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order, Munich 1966, pp. 406–407.
- Peter Genner: After the rule of the monastery - Swiss revolutionaries in the Pfaffenwinkel. In: Der Welf, Jahrbuch des Historischen Verein Schongau, 2013, pp. 69–192 ( digitized version ), here: pp. 157–165 ( The Schoch family alias Rutishauser ) and family tree.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl von Schoch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl von Schoch in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Karl von Schoch in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). Series of publications on Bavarian State History Volume 89, CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, p. 162.
- ^ Paul Hoser: The political, economic and social background of the Munich daily press 1914 to 1934. 1990, p. 249.
- ^ Hans Hartmann: Encounter with Europeans. Conversations with designers of our time. 1954, p. 153.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schoch, Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schoch, Karl Philipp Ludwig; Schoch, Karl Ritter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian Lieutenant General, Politician (DVP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1940 |
| Place of death | Berlin |