Otto von Emmich

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Otto von Emmich (around 1910)

Albert Theodor Otto Emmich , from 1912 von Emmich (born August 4, 1848 in Minden ; † December 22, 1915 in Hanover ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Wilhelm II and Emmich at the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover on June 20, 1913. The reference to Emmich as the winner of Liège in the caption is a later addition.
On the occasion of Emmich's funeral in 1915, the following met (from left) on Trammplatz in front of the “City Hall in Hanover”: Grand Duke August II of Oldenburg , Duke Ernst August III. von Hannover and his wife, Duchess Viktoria Luise ;
so-called "real photo postcard " by Alfred Grohs from the publishing house Gustav Liersch & Co. , number 7592
The honorary grave of the late Otto von Emmich was designed by the architect Paul Wolf .

Life

family

Emmich was the son of a colonel . He married Elise Pauline Sophie (* 1855), a daughter of the Prussian major general Karl von Graberg .

Military career

Emmich joined the infantry regiment “Count Bülow von Dennewitz” (6th Westphalian) No. 55 on July 3, 1866 as a flag squire after graduating from Mindener Gymnasium and took part in the Franco-German War . On May 18, 1901 he was promoted to major general, at the same time he took over command of the 31st Infantry Brigade in Trier. On February 14, 1905 he was promoted to lieutenant general and as such he took over the 10th division in Posen on May 22, 1905 . On May 29, 1909, he was promoted to General of the Infantry and at the same time appointed Commanding General of the X Army Corps in Hanover.

On January 27, 1912, Emmich was raised to the Prussian nobility in Berlin .

At the beginning of the First World War , Emmich's Army Corps carried out the first major action of the war in August 1914, the conquest of Liège , which was intended to pave the way for the advancing German army to France . For this he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite as the first German officer during the war . In September, his corps participated in the Battle of the Marne in part, then began trench warfare in space Reims . In April 1915 it was transferred to the Eastern Front and used in the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów .

Emmich died in Hanover in December 1915 of an illness that he caught in the field in autumn. His burial took place with military honors in Hanover.

Orders and decorations

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Albert Theodor Otto von Emmich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , p. 308, no. 2310.
  2. ↑ Dieter Brosius : Hanover in World War I , In: History of the City of Hanover , Volume 2, From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , pp. 396–401; here: p. 398 , online via Google books
  3. ↑ Andreas Schinkel: Bezirksrat Mitte / Emmichplatz should get a different name ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from October 17, 2017, updated on October 20, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2019
  4. ↑ Michael Lünstroth: Von-Emmich- becomes Georges-Ferber-Straße , Südkurier , April 11, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Emmich, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emmich, Albert Theodor Otto von (full name); Emmich, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian General of the Infantry and Commanding General of the X Army Corps
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1915
Place of death Hanover