Theodor Mengelbier

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Theodor Wilhelm Albert Mengelbier (born December 30, 1857 in Mulhouse in Alsace , † July 15, 1932 ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the infantry .

Life

Mengelbier was in command of 4th Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 143 from April 21, 1911 to January 26, 1914 . He then commanded the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Division (Lieutenant General Adalbert Falk ) as major general at the beginning of the First World War in August 1914 during the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia . On April 19, 1915, he took command of the 12th Landwehr Division in Alsace. During a visit to the Rehfelsen position on the Untere Rehfelsen on April 24, 1916, he was shot in the stomach. He was restored in Colmar , but had to hand over the leadership of the division to General Paul von Drabich-Waechter .

From November 5, 1916 to January 2, 1917, he again led the 16th Division on the Eastern Front on Upper Styr and Stochod in Volhynia . Between May 23, 1917 and February 6, 1918 Mengelbier was in command of the 101st Division , which was deployed on the Macedonian front until October 1917 and then transferred to the Eastern Front, where it took up positions on the Sereth . On March 28, 1918 he succeeded Lieutenant General Wilhelm Groener as the last commanding general of the 1st Army Corps on the Eastern Front.

In 1923 he was in Freiburg Chairman of the Breisgau Association for Aviation e. V.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Hentschel: Family Book Remagen (Evangelical Reformed) . Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  2. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as the hunter and machine gun battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 . P. 351.
  3. ↑ The southern foothills of the Hartmannsweiler head
  4. ↑ Curt Badinski : From a great time. Reminder sheets of the Jäger-Feld-Battalion No. 9. World War 1914-1918. Ratzeburg 1932, Lauenburgischer Heimatverlag, HHC Freystatzky's printing house.
  5. ^ Lieutenant General Mengelbier , German War History.
  6. ^ Walter Vetter: City airfield Freiburg. The history. ( Memento of May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Mengelbier, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mengelbier, Theodor Wilhelm Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer, most recently general of the infantry in World War I.
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse in Alsace
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1932