Otto von Plüskow

Hermann Otto Hugo Ferdinand von Plüskow (born June 20, 1852 in Weimar , † March 26, 1925 in Kassel ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

He came from the noble family von Plüskow .

Military career

Plüskow received his education at the Pforta State School . He then stepped on 1 April 1872 as a cadet in the 1st Guards Regiment walk the Prussian army and was on 16 October 1873 second lieutenant promoted. As such, he worked at the non-commissioned officers' school in Potsdam from October 1879 , where he was promoted to adjutant in April 1880 and was promoted to prime lieutenant on May 27, 1882 . From April 3, 1883 to December 19, 1885 Plüskow was commanded to serve the Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Saxony-Meiningen . On October 26, 1887, he joined the 1st Infantry Guard Brigade as an adjutant and was appointed company commander in the 1st Foot Guards Regiment on January 27, 1888 at the same time as his promotion to captain . Two years later, he was appointed commander of the personal company that Plüskow commanded for the next seven years. In the meantime promoted to major , from October 18, 1897 to August 2, 1900 he was in command of the 2nd, then the 1st battalion of the 1st Guards Regiment on foot. On March 22, 1902, when he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, he was appointed as serving wing adjutant to Wilhelm II. He remained in this position for the next nine years. The appointment was linked to the takeover of the castle guard company , which Plüskow only commanded for barely three years. From January 27, 1905 to May 1, 1908, as a colonel , he was in command of the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 . Subsequently entrusted with the leadership of the 1st Guard Infantry Brigade, Plüskow was also entrusted with the management of business as the commander of Potsdam. With his promotion to major general on January 27, 1909, he was confirmed in both positions. He was then transferred to Darmstadt on April 3, 1911 and appointed as Lieutenant General to the command of the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) Division . On January 1, 1914, he was initially with the leadership of the XI. Army Corps and on February 17, 1914, finally appointed General Command.

With the outbreak of the First World War , he led his corps together with the 3rd Army to neutral Belgium , where he was involved in the enclosure and conquest of the city and fortress of Namur . Then Plüskow was relocated to the Eastern Front with his large unit. Here he was promoted to General of the Infantry on August 30, 1914 and proved himself in the subsequent battle of the Masurian Lakes . This was followed by the campaign in southern Poland and in the battle for Łódź , after heavy losses, he was finally able to take the important industrial city . By early July 1915 his corps was in position battles on the Rawka - Bzura , then moved north and took part in the Breakthrough Battle of from July 13 Przasnysz part. In the further course of the offensive his corps pushed further east and captured the fortress Pułtusk on the Narew . For this Plüskow was awarded the Order of the Crown, 1st Class with Swords. After further persecution battles that lasted until the end of September 1915, Plüskow and his corps were transferred to the Western Front. Here he gave up the large formation on March 12, 1917 and briefly took over the VIII Army Corps . On May 10, 1917, Plüskow was transferred to the army officers due to his state of health, awarded the order Pour le Mérite in recognition of his achievements on the Eastern Front and on August 16, 1917 at the disposal and at the same time à la suite of the Emperor Alexander Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 1 posed.

literature

• Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 140–142.
• 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. 44-45.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Gehrig : School gate and the German intellectual life: life pictures of old gatekeepers, almae matri Portae, dedicated to May 21, 1943, in connection with Otto von Auwers ... [et al.]. Buske, 1943, p. 151. ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).