Kurt Wahle

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Kurt Wahle in the rank of general

Kurt Wahle (born December 26, 1854 in Neuhof near Düben , Province of Saxony , † June 19, 1928 ) was a Saxon lieutenant general who participated in the First World War as part of the protection force for German East Africa .

Life

Wahle visited the Dresden Cadet House from 1867 and was transferred to the Saxon Army as an ensign in 1873 . In the further course of his military career he was from July 15, 1904 to April 15, 1907 commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment No. 105 "King Wilhelm II of Württemberg" in Strasbourg . He was then transferred to the army officers in his previous uniform, appointed commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade No. 45 in Dresden on May 25, 1907 , and in this capacity promoted to major general on February 18, 1908 . With the approval of his resignation request , Wahle was put up for disposal on March 23, 1910 with the statutory pension . On the occasion of his farewell, King Friedrich August III awarded him . the Commander II class of the Order of Merit .

In 1914 Wahle was on a trip to German East Africa to visit his son, who lived there as a farmer. He arrived in Tanga immediately at the beginning of the First World War and placed himself under the command of the Schutztruppe Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck . So it came to the special constellation that a major general served under a lieutenant colonel .

Wahle initially took over command of the Morogoro and Dar es Salaam sections, and in 1915 he commanded the western section against the Belgian forces from the Congo. After the protection troops withdrew to the south, in 1917 he commanded the containment and shelling of the port city of Lindi . On May 21, 1917, Wahle was given the character of Lieutenant General.

He went to Mozambique with the Schutztruppe in November 1917 and returned with them to the territory of the German colony in September 1918. In October 1918 he was left behind by Lettow-Vorbeck on the march in Ubena on the urgent medical advice of his poor health and was taken prisoner of war by the British with the wounded who were also left behind , and he spent them in Blantyre . At the beginning of 1919 he returned to Germany. It was here that on October 29, 1920, he was given the Commander's Cross II. Class of the Military Order of St. Henry .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 39 of March 26, 1910, p. 938.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 41 of April 2, 1910, p. 985.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 190 of June 2, 1917, p. 4743.
  4. ↑ Richard Wenig: War Safari. Verlag August Scherl, Berlin 1920, p. 205.
  5. ^ Heinrich Schnee : German East Africa in the World War. Verlag Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 384.
  6. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrich Order. 1736-1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 115.
personal data
SURNAME Choose, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon Lieutenant General, Western Commander in Chief of the Schutztruppen for German East Africa in World War I.
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhof near Düben, Province of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1928