Sylvester Boettrich

Karl Anton Johann Eduard Sylvester Böttrich even Böttrich , (* 31 December 1869 in Sorau , † January 1940 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was in World War Chief of the Turkish field railway .

Life

On April 1, 1888, Boettrich joined the Infantry Regiment No. 107 of the Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer . On June 3, 1890, he was promoted to Vice Sergeant in the Reserve and in the same month to the Fusilier Regiment "General-Field Marshal Prince Albrecht of Prussia" (Hannoversches) No. 73 . There he was appointed portepee ensign on November 18, 1890 and finally promoted to second lieutenant on March 22, 1891 . In the further course of his military career Boettrich rose to Major on July 18, 1914 .

From 1914 to 1917 Boettrich was a member of the German military mission in the Ottoman Empire . In peacetime, as an Ottoman lieutenant colonel, he was initially chief of the railway department in the Ottoman general staff , and during the war he was chief of the field railways. On October 16, 1915, he signed an order authorizing the dismissal and subsequent deportation of thousands of Armenians who were involved in the construction of the Baghdad Railway , thereby contributing to the Armenian genocide . This order took place against the resistance of the German railway company.

After his return from the Ottoman Empire, Boettrich was battalion commander in the infantry regiment "Graf Werder" (4th Rheinisches) No. 30 on the western front . After the war, which he ended as a lieutenant colonel , he lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Orders and decorations

• Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order

Web links

• Document with his order and the corresponding correspondence between the German Embassy and the Foreign Office

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register of the Wilmersdorf registry office in Berlin No. 169/1940.
2. ↑ Gustav von Kortzfleisch , Emil Breyding (arr.): History of the Fusilier Regiment Field Marshal General Prince Albrecht von Preussen (Hannoversches) No. 73, 1866–1891 . R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1891, p. 399
3. ^ Klaus Wolf: Gallipoli 1915. The German-Turkish military alliance in the First World War. Report Verlag, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-932385-29-2 , p. 237.
4. ↑ Martin Tamcke : "You, Ararat, I'll never forget!" New contributions to the fate of Armenia , 2006, p. 77. ( digitized version )
5. ↑ The Baghdad Railway
6. ↑ Huberta von Voss: Portrait of a Hope - the Armenians. Life pictures from all over the world. 2005, p. 82. ( digitized version )
7. ^ Gerhard Hirschfeld : Encyclopedia First World War , 2008, p. 343. ( digitized version )
8. ↑ Vahakn N. Dadrian : The history of the Armenian genocide , 2004, p. 261. ( digitized version )
9. ↑ Berliner Adressbuch 1939 Part I, p. 289 ( online ).