Max von Fabeck

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Max von Fabeck

Herrmann Gustav Karl Max von Fabeck (* 6. May 1854 in Berlin , † 16th December 1916 in Partenkirchen ) one was a Prussian general of infantry and commander of several German armies in the First World War .

Life

He was the son of the Prussian Lieutenant General Hermann von Fabeck (1816–1873) and his wife Bertha, born von dem Borne (1829–1910).

On October 18, 1871, at the age of 17, Fabeck joined the 1st Guards Regiment on foot in the Prussian Army as a second lieutenant . From 1878 to 1879 he attended the military academy . In 1882 he joined the Great General Staff and was promoted to captain in 1884 . From 1886 he served in the General Staff of the 28th Division in Karlsruhe .

He married on October 24, 1887 in Karlsruhe Helene von Seldeneck (* October 7, 1863 in Karlsruhe, † July 13, 1938 in Cologne ), the daughter of the Grand Duke of Baden Chamberlain and entrepreneur Wilhelm von Seldeneck and Julie Brand von Lindau. The couple had three daughters, Ilse, Margarethe and Hildegard.

In 1889 Fabeck came to the VI as a general staff officer . Army Corps in Breslau and was promoted to major a little later . From 1893 he served in the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm II." (1st Silesian) No. 10 in Schweidnitz . In 1896 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel Chief of Staff of the XI. Army Corps in Kassel . In 1898 he was commander of the infantry regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (East Frisian) No. 78 in Osnabrück and promoted to colonel in the same year . From 1901 he led the 25th Infantry Brigade in Münster and was promoted to major general in the same year .

Fabeck was promoted to lieutenant general in 1906 and appointed commander of the 28th division in Karlsruhe . In 1910 he was appointed General of the Infantry and Commanding General of the XV. Army Corps in Strasbourg . After his embarrassing role at the Strasbourg Köpenickiade in the spring of 1913 had exposed him to general ridicule, he let himself be in the same position at the XIII. (Royal Wuerttemberg) Army Corps in Stuttgart .

This he led in August 1914 in the First World War , where he was initially subordinate to the 5th Army . In the course of the “ Race to the Sea ” Fabeck and his general command were transferred to the 6th Army , where they led the “Army Group Fabeck” during the First Battle of Flanders in October / November 1914. This succeeded in conquering the strategically important Wytschaete arch . He was then transferred with his corps to the Eastern Front, where he took part in the winter battles of the 9th Army in Poland. On March 3, 1915, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Bavarian Order of Military Merit with Swords.

At the beginning of March 1915 he was commissioned to set up a new 11th Army in the west , but only a short time later was commissioned to lead the 1st Army in place of the wounded Alexander von Kluck . On August 23, 1915, he was awarded the Order of Pour le Mérite as Commander in Chief of the 1st Army for excellent military planning and successful operations during the 1914 to 1915 campaigns in Belgium and Northern France . From September 1915 he led the 12th Army in the east (renamed the 8th Army in October 1916 ).

As a result of illness in the field, he died on December 16, 1916 in Partenkirchen as Commander-in-Chief of the 8th Army à la suite of the 1st Guard Regiment stationed in Potsdam .

Awards

literature

  • Holger Afflerbach : Kaiser Wilhelm II as supreme warlord in the First World War. Sources from the military environment of the emperor 1914–1918. (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries, Volume 64). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57581-3 .
  • Ian FW Beckett: Ypres. The First Battle, 1914. Pearson / Education, Harlow [et al.] 2004, ISBN 0-582-50612-3 .
  • Robert T. Foley: German Strategy and the Path to Verdun. Erich Falkenhayn and the development of Attrition 1870-1916. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 0-521-84193-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , p. 460f., No. 2407.
  2. ^ Military Ordinance Sheet. No. 14 of March 6, 1915, p. 146.
  3. ↑ On the award of the Pour le Mérite (photo) ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pourlemerite.org
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B Volume XVII, p. 119. Volume 86 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j 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. 1160.
  6. ↑ Otto von Moser : Die Württemberger in the world wars. 2nd expanded edition, Chr.Belser AG, Stuttgart 1928, p. 109.
personal data
SURNAME Fabeck, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fabeck, Herrmann Gustav Karl Max von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry and commander in chief of the 8th Army
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1916
Place of death Partenkirchen