Kurt of the Borne

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General Kurt of the Borne

Kurt Gotthilf Kreuzwendedich of the Borne (* 19 May 1857 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † 22. November 1933 in Berlin-Wannsee ) was a Prussian general of the infantry in the First World War .

Life

origin

Kurt came from the Brandenburg nobility from the Borne . He was the son of the Prussian major Albert von dem Borne (1804-1883), who was married to Mathilde von Waldow in his second marriage . His older brother was Lieutenant General Hermann von dem Borne .

Military career

Borne joined the 3rd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 83 of the Prussian Army in Kassel on April 23, 1874 , coming from the Cadet Corps as a Second Lieutenant . On April 29, 1879, he was transferred to the 4th Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 21 in Thorn , where he was appointed adjutant of the 2nd Battalion on February 1, 1880 . Ten months later he was transferred to the Konitz district command in the same function . Borne stayed there until he was assigned to the War Academy on October 1, 1882. Subsequently, he was assigned to the General Staff as Prime Lieutenant and on March 22, 1888 transferred to the 1st Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 26 in Magdeburg . After his promotion to captain , he worked there from February 16, 1889 as a company commander . As a major (since January 27, 1898), Borne was transferred to Frankfurt am Main on August 18, 1899, to the 1st Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 81 , and on January 27, 1900, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Battalion.

On March 22, 1903 his appointment was made commander of the Military Academy Gdansk where Borne on July 20, 1904. Lieutenant Colonel and on 14 April 1907 Colonel was promoted. As such, on October 18, 1907, he was appointed commander of the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163 in Neumünster . At the same time as his promotion to major general on March 20, 1911, Borne then took over the 5th Infantry Brigade in Stettin before he was appointed commander of the 13th Division in Münster on October 1, 1913 , while being promoted to lieutenant general . This was subordinate to the Munster VII Army Corps which in turn was subordinate to the 2nd Army at the beginning of the First World War .

After the mobilization, the division moved into neutral Belgium and initially participated in the siege of Liège . His troops succeeded in conquering the forts Fléron , Chaudfontaine , Hollogne and Flémalle . Then the large association fought in the Battle of the Sambre and advanced across the French border. Then in February 1917 Borne became leader of the VI. Reserve Corps in the Artois . During the German Michael Offensive in March 1918, the Borne group was part of the 17th Army . On 18 April 1918 he became the general of the infantry transported . In July 1918, his corps reinforced the front of the 7th Army in the area southwest of Reims and attacked at Chambrecy during the Second Battle of the Marne . After the French counter-offensive from the Foret de la Montagne, the corps had to withdraw to the Aisne.

After the end of the war, he was appointed Commanding General of the VI on December 20, 1918 . Army Corps in Wroclaw . In this function, Borne was also Commander-in-Chief of the Army High Command South Border Guard from January 10, 1919 . On June 28, 1919, he was transferred to the army officers and resigned from military service on July 10, 1919 at his own request.

family

Borne had three children:

  • Kurt (1885–1946), Vice Admiral in World War II
  • Annemarie (* 1887)
  • Dietrich (1891-1916), as a lieutenant and observer in Field Aviation Department 6, had a fatal crash.

Awards

literature

  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume I: A-L. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935, pp. 122–124.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 156-158.

Web links

Commons : Kurt von dem Borne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 74.
personal data
SURNAME Borne, Kurt from that
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borne, Kurt Gotthilf Kreuzwendedich from the (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1933
Place of death Berlin-Wannsee