Richard von Berendt (General, 1865)

Richard Gustav Adolf Berendt , since 1896 von Berendt (born January 14, 1865 in Neisse , Province of Silesia , † August 25, 1953 in Joachimsthal ) was a German artillery general of the Reichswehr and knight of the order Pour le Mérite with oak leaves.

Life

origin

He was the son of the later Prussian major general Richard von Berendt (1833-1900) and his wife Marie Helene Luise, née Zerboni (born January 2, 1841). His father was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on January 18, 1896 by Kaiser Wilhelm II .

Military career

Berendt joined the Guard Foot Artillery Regiment of the Prussian Army on April 15, 1884 , coming from the Cadet Corps as a Second Lieutenant . On October 1, 1886, he was assigned to the United Artillery and Engineering School and, on his return, from 1888 onwards he was deployed as a battalion adjutant. In this position, Berendt was promoted to Prime Lieutenant on March 25, 1893 . As such, on October 1, 1893, he was transferred to the Baden foot artillery regiment No. 14 and at the same time he was assigned to the artillery examination commission . With the promotion to captain , Berendt was placed in his command à la suite of the Lower Silesian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 5 . From January 27, 1897 to June 15, 1900 he then acted as company commander in the foot artillery regiment “General-Feldzeugmeister” (Brandenburgisches) No. 3 and then came as an adjutant to the 1st foot artillery inspection. From April 18, 1903, Berendt was in the Prussian War Ministry , where on June 14, 1904 he was promoted to major . After his work there, on February 15, 1906, he took over as commander of the 2nd battalion of the Schleswig-Holstein Foot Artillery Regiment No. 9 . From May 22, 1909, Berendt was 1st artillery officer from the square in Metz , was entrusted with the command of the Westphalian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 7 on March 20, 1911 and, after his promotion to lieutenant colonel , was appointed commander on April 21, 1911. Berendt gave up this command on September 30, 1912 and was then appointed commander of the Guard Foot Artillery Regiment. In this function he was promoted to colonel on October 1, 1913 .

During the First World War Berendt was a staff officer, general of the artillery in various army groups and army high command on the western front. On January 14, 1917, he received the order Pour le mérite and was promoted to major general on January 27 . At the same time he was appointed artillery leader of the German Crown Prince Army Group . In this capacity, Berendt received the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite on November 24, 1917. Between August 7 and December 10, 1918, he commanded the 29th Division in the 18th Army sector .

In 1919 he was accepted into the Reichswehr , where he initially worked as an artillery inspector. In March 1920 he took over the function of commander of the military district 2 Stettin . On June 16, 1920 he was promoted to lieutenant general and briefly took over the leadership of the 3rd division of the Reichswehr. On September 1, 1921, he was promoted to General of the Artillery and was transferred to Group Command 2 in Kassel the following year . At the beginning of 1923 Berendt took over Group Command 1 in Berlin. On December 31, 1924, he left the Reichswehr.

On April 20, 1937 Berendt was appointed Chief of Artillery Regiment 59, whose I. Department had taken over the tradition of the Guard Foot Artillery Regiment.

family

Berendt married Elise Eleonore Alwine Kopisch on September 25, 1890 in Weizenrodau (born January 21, 1869).

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Red Eagle Order IV class
Crown Order II. Class with Swords
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
Prussian service award cross
Grand Commander of the Bavarian Order of Military Merit with swords
Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with swords
Hessian bravery medal
Order of the Iron Crown II class with the war decoration
Austrian Military Merit Cross II. Class with the war decoration
Silver Imtiaz medal with swords
Golden Liakat medal with swords
Iron crescent
Grand Officer's Cross of the Bulgarian Order of St. Alexander with Swords

literature

Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume I, Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1935, pp. 74-76.
Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 90-92.
Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1919. Thirteenth year, Justus Perhes, Gotha 1918, p. 55.

Web links

Literature by and about Richard von Berendt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1930, p. 71.

personal data
SURNAME	Berendt, Richard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berendt, Richard Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German general of the artillery
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neisse , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	August 25, 1953
Place of death	Joachimsthal

[Rangliste_des_Deutschen_Reichsheeres-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1930, p. 71.