Ludwig Hauss

Ludwig Hauss

Ludwig Hauß (born February 17, 1871 in Darmstadt ; † January 2, 1941 there ) was a German officer and during the First World War commander of the infantry regiment "Lübeck" (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 .

Life

Hauß was educated in the cadet corps and on March 24, 1890 transferred as a second lieutenant to the 4th Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 67 of the Prussian Army in Metz . After he was first a battalion adjutant, then regimental adjutant , he was promoted to captain in 1905 and appointed company commander. Later he was transferred to the 3rd Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 135 in Diedenhofen in the same position . Under the promotion to Major was Hauß from 1 October 1913 at the headquarters of the Queen Elizabeth Grenadier Guards Regiment. 3 in Charlottenburg .

First World War

With the mobilization , Hauss became commander of the III. Battalion from the Wreschener Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 46 . In the III. Reserve Corps , the regiment was involved in the capture of Antwerp and the battle of the Yser . Now the corps has been transferred to the Eastern Front. Here Hauss was the leader of the Reserve Infantry Regiments No. 52 and No. 12 of Detachment Hauss near Warsaw . Hauss participated in the battles at Lowicz - Sannicki and at the Bzura - Rawka . This was followed by trench warfare until the 9th Army to the Brandenburg now belonged, back to the offensive went. It penetrated via Warsaw into the Serwetsch swamp area until it was used in the defensive battles against the Brusilov offensive in the summer of 1916 .

On October 5, 1916 he was appointed commander of the newly established Infantry Regiment No. 420 , with whom he took part in the trench warfare in the Pripet swamps. On July 11, 1917, Hauß was appointed commander of the infantry regiment "Lübeck" (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 fighting on the Western Front in the Artois . After receiving both classes of the Iron Cross , Hauß was awarded the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross on September 15, 1917 . On March 21, 1918, he led his association on the spring offensive . In April, his regiment, as part of the 4th Army, recaptured the towns of Meesen and Wytschaete (now a district) during the battle for the Kemmel . Then his regiment switched to the 18th Army under General von Hutier and took part in the Matz offensive. Defensive battles now followed between the Somme and Oise . Hauß was promoted to lieutenant colonel on August 18, 1918 .

His brigade commander, Colonel Hans von Werder , suggested him with the approval of the Commander-in-Chief of the 18th Army in recognition of his achievements in the battle for the Kemmel and the defensive battles to be awarded the order Pour le Mérite . The highest Prussian honor for bravery was awarded to Hauß on September 11, 1918.

His battalions fought in Flanders and Le Câteau before he led his regiment back to Lübeck after the armistice .

November 30, 1918

The regiment returned home at the central station on the morning of November 26, 1918, coming from guard duty during the transition period around Strasbourg in Alsace-Lorraine . In the official celebration on November 30th, Mayor Fehling as representative of the Senate, Dimpker as spokesman for the citizenship, Retyfeldt as member of the soldiers 'council and the editor Stelling as representative of the workers' council welcomed the regiment that had returned. However, only remnants of this were left. His officers had already left the regiment. Since Hauss was ill, the commander of the command of the 81st Infantry Brigade , Colonel von Werder, also based in Lübeck, thanked them on behalf of the regiment.

post war period

In January 1919, Hauss was transferred back to his last peace regiment. After the demobilization , his resignation was granted and he left the army on July 12, 1919. Since then he has lived in Eberstadt near Darmstadt.

Hauß received on 27 August 1939 the so-called Tannenbergtag , the character bestowed as a colonel.

literature

• Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2516-2 , pp. 46-47.
• Hanns Möller : The history of the knights of the order “pour le merite” in World War 1914–1918. Volume 1: A-L. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935.
• Otto Dziobek : History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162. Verlag Gerhard Stalling . 1922 Oldenburg i. D. first edition. Officers Association formerly 162.
• Festschrift for the consecration of the memorial at the Lübeck cemetery of honor and the 2nd regiment day May 9, 10, 1925; Section: The commanders of the Inf.-Regt. "Lübeck" in the world war.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lübeck city archives in terms of Senate files: Directory of the owner of the Lübeckischen Hanseatic Cross. Signature 1093, receipt number.
2. ^ The homecoming of the Lübeck regiment. ; In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1918/19, No. 5, edition of December 8, 1918, pp. 17-19.