Max von Kluge

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Max Kluge , von Kluge since 1913 , (born December 4, 1856 in Schniebinchen , Sorau district , † November 29, 1934 in Kolberg ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

Kluge embarked on a military career in the Prussian Army , was u. a. Commander of the 1st Pomeranian Field Artillery Regiment No. 2 and, from April 20, 1909, commander of the 22nd Field Artillery Brigade in Kassel . On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Kluge was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility .

On January 1, 1914, Kluge was appointed commander of the 18th division in Flensburg . At the beginning of the First World War , his troops were part of the IX. Army Corps on the Western Front . He took part in the Battle of Mons in August 1914 and, after the advance to the Marne , in the Battle of Ourcq in early September . After the First Aisneschlacht his division went to the trench warfare over, on June 21, 1915, he gave his command to Lieutenant General Paul Bloch von Blottnitz from. He was then transferred to the army officers and on September 6, 1915, with the approval of his resignation request, put up for disposition with the statutory pension .

The later General Field Marshal Günther von Kluge (1882-1944) emerged from his marriage to Elise Kühn-Schuhmann, which he concluded in Glogau on October 8, 1881 . Another son was General Wolfgang von Kluge .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 508
  2. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 81 of June 19, 1913, p. 1864.
  3. ↑ Reichsarchiv (Ed.): Volume I. Kriegsgliederungen, ES Mittler & Sohn , p. 668.
  4. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 163 of September 11, 1915, p. 3870.
personal data
SURNAME Kluge, Max von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Schniebinchen , Sorau district
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1934
Place of death Kolberg