Ludwig winner
Ludwig Sieger (born September 27, 1857 in Zülpich ; † November 15, 1952 at Gladbach Castle ) was a Prussian general of the artillery .
Life
Sieger was born as the eighth of nine children of the factory owner Heinrich Xaver Sieger . He outlived all of the siblings. On June 23, 1884 he married Anna Wachendorff in Bonn and had three children with her from 1885 to 1892. Elfriede, the second child, married the officer Rudolf Schniewindt on May 7, 1912 .
After high school and two semesters at the Institute of Technology (Berlin) Charlottenburg winner came on 1 August 1878 as an officer cadet in the Westphalian Foot Artillery Regiment. 7 and was here on February 14 in 1880 second lieutenant promoted. From October 1, 1880 to September 30, 1882 he graduated from the United Artillery and Engineering School and one year later served as an adjutant of the 2nd Battalion of his regular regiment until September 30, 1886 . Later he became adjutant of the artillery shooting school in Hanover , then the 2nd foot artillery inspection , before he was appointed company commander in the Schleswig field artillery regiment "Field Marshal Graf Waldersee" No. 9 . In 1894 he became adjutant of the General Inspectorate of the Foot Artillery . In 1896 he was transferred to the War Ministry. He was appointed artillery officer from the square in Koblenz , then to the department commander in his old regiment, the Schleswig field artillery regiment "Generalfeldmarschall Graf Waldersee" No. 9. He then became the first artillery officer from the square in Metz . In 1905 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed commander of the 1st Rhenish field artillery regiment "von Holtzendorff" No. 8 .
In 1906 he returned to the War Ministry as head of department . In 1907 he was promoted to colonel . In 1910 he was with the perception of the company's Präses of artillery Examination Board commissioned. After he was promoted to major general, he was permanently appointed to that position. In February 1914 he was promoted to lieutenant general.
As President of the Artillery Examination Commission, he distinguished himself in the development and expansion of heavy artillery. For example, at the introduction of the 42cm mortar , Krupp's Dicker Berta .
First World War
During the mobilization he went over as chief of the field munitions system to the chief of the general staff of the field army . As such, he was responsible for the distribution of ammunition manufactured or procured by the ministry to the front lines. He enjoyed the special trust of Falkenhayn .
On June 14, 1916 he was appointed commander of the 16th Reserve Division , which he led in the Battle of the Somme in November . After she was relieved, she joined the 7th Army on the Aisne . There she faced the French Commander-in-Chief Nivelle at Mercy-le-Haut on April 21, 1917 . After being replaced, the division fought on the eastern front in Bukovina from the beginning of July and on August 27, together with the 8th Bavarian Reserve Division, stormed the Dolzok ridge near Czernowitz .
Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed him on September 11, 1917 as commander of the XVIII fighting in Bessarabia . Reserve Corps . In December the corps was transferred to the 4th Army in Flanders . Here it fought in April in the Battle of the Kemmel . For this battle Wilhelm II personally awarded him the order Pour le Mérite .
At the beginning of July he left Flanders and his corps was placed under the 18th Army . With this he was pushed back to the Siegfried position at the beginning of September . His achievements prompted the Army High Command (AOK) 18 to propose the general, with the approval of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, to be awarded the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite, which he received from AKO on November 3, 1918.
Weimar Republic
After the demobilization of the XVIII. Reserve Corps Sieger returned to his peacetime position as President of the Artillery Examination Commission on January 3, 1919. On January 30th he was put up for disposition in approval of his resignation . With seniority from this day he received the on September 16, 1919 Character as General of Artillery.
further activities
Ludwig Sieger was also a member of the supervisory board of Rudolph Koepp & Co., Chemische Fabrik AG in Oestrich . This company was owned by relatives.
Awards
- Order of the Red Eagle II class with oak leaves
- Order of the crown, 2nd class with star
- Prussian service award cross
- Bavarian Military Merit Order II. Class with star
- Commander 1st class of the Albrecht Order
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
literature
- Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 312-314.
- Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order »pour le mérite« in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1935, pp. 336–338.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 497.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winner, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian general of the artillery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zülpich |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1952 |
| Place of death | Gladbach Castle |