Richard von Kraewel

Richard von Kraewel's grave in the Berlin Invalidenfriedhof, field A.

Richard Karl Friedrich Bernhard von Kraewel (born August 17, 1861 in Sagan , † June 14, 1943 in Berlin ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Richard was a son of the later Prussian major general Karl von Kraewel (1814-1891) and his wife Maria, née Countess Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche and Camminetz (1826-1907). The later Prussian major general Karl von Kraewel (1858–1921) was his older brother.

Military career

Coming from the cadet corps , Kraewel was transferred to the 3rd Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 14 of the Prussian Army in Stralsund on April 17, 1880 . Here he served in the 12th Company and was promoted to second lieutenant on November 16, 1880 . After brief assignment to the training infantry battalion in 1883, he was adjutant of the 2nd battalion from August 1884 to the end of November 1886 . This was followed by his further training at the War Academy until the end of June 1890 . In the meantime , promoted to Prime Lieutenant on January 27, 1889 with a patent from September 21, 1889 , Kraewel was transferred to Infantry Regiment No. 14 in Graudenz on April 1, 1890 . Kraewel was then commanded to serve in the General Staff from April 1891 to March 1893 , then transferred here and promoted to captain on June 2, 1893 . On February 15, 1898 he resigned from the troop service and until July 19, 1898 acted as chief of the 4th company of the Fusilier Regiment "General Field Marshal Graf Moltke" (Silesian) No. 38 . He then returned to the General Staff, was promoted to major and on July 22, 1900, he was sent to Württemberg for use in the General Staff of the 27th Division . After being transferred to the General Staff of the IV Army Corps , Kraewel was relieved of this position. From April 22, 1895 he was again in the fusilier regiment "General-Feldmarschall Graf Moltke" (Silesian) No. 38 active. First as commander of the 2nd battalion and then in the regimental staff. At the same time he was transferred to the General Staff of the Army, Kraewel was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the II Army Corps on October 16, 1906 . In this position on 27 January 1909. Colonel transported acted Kraewel of 21 February 1911 to 21 April 1912 as commander of the infantry regiment "of Courbière" (second Posen Regiment) no. 19 and was then a major general commander of the 34 Infantry Brigade (Grand Ducal Mecklenburg) in Schwerin .

After the outbreak of World War I , he led his brigade as part of the 17th Division on the Western Front . His troops were involved in the advance through Belgium to France, intervened in the Battle of St. Quentin and then fought in the Battle of Ourcq . On September 22, 1914, he took over the 17th Reserve Division in the area west of Roye and at Noyon , and on November 23, he became Chief of the General Staff at the commanding authority in the General Government of Belgium . On April 18, 1915, he was promoted to lieutenant general. On September 17, 1915 he became commander of the 101st Division and took part in the campaign against Serbia , on November 19 of the same year he took over the 105th Division , which moved to new positions in Macedonia and the following year to the Eastern Front on the Strypa misplaced. On September 6, 1916, he took over the 3rd Division on Lake Narotsch . On February 2, 1917 he succeeded General Kühne and took over General Command 54 at the Putna, at the same time he was promoted to General of the Infantry . On February 25, 1917 he was appointed commanding general of the IV Army Corps in Flanders , with whom he took part in the Battle of the Lys in April 1918 as part of the German spring offensive .

After the armistice he was commanding officer of the II Army Corps from December 17, 1918 to June 22, 1919 .

His grave is in the Berlin Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Kraewel had married Margarethe Stenzler (1864–1940). The marriage produced four sons and one daughter.

literature

• Officer tribe list of the infantry regiment v. Courbière (2nd Posenschen) No. 19. Görlitz 1913. p. 24.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Old nobility and post office nobility. 1921. Fifteenth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1920, p. 464.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laurenz Demps: Between Mars and Minerva .: Signpost for the Invalidenfriedhof. A guide to the grave monuments that still exist in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin. Verlag für Bauwesen, 1998, p. 78. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
2. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , pp. 447f., No. 2400.