Theodor Wundt

This article deals with the officer and writer Theodor Wundt. On the general and politician see Theodor von Wundt .

Theodor Karl Wilhelm Wundt , von Wundt since 1906 , (born April 21, 1858 in Ludwigsburg , † August 16, 1929 in Stuttgart ) was a Württemberg lieutenant general , mountaineer , photographer and writer .

Military career

He was the son of the Württemberg Lieutenant General and Minister of War Theodor von Wundt .

Wundt attended the Lyceum in Ludwigsburg and the Realgymnasium in Stuttgart up to Obersekunda . Then he volunteered on September 30, 1875 with the prospect of promotion to the 7th Infantry Regiment No. 125 of the Württemberg Army in Stuttgart. There, Wundt was appointed Portepeef Ensign on May 8, 1876 and promoted to Second Lieutenant on February 5, 1877 . As such, he graduated from the War Academy in Berlin for three years from October 1, 1881 . As Prime Lieutenant , Wundt was commanded from November 17, 1888 to March 21, 1891 as an adjutant to the 52nd Infantry Brigade in Ludwigsburg, with his regiments à la suite . Subsequently transferred to the 4th Infantry Regiment No. 122 in Gmünd , Wundt was assigned to the General Staff in Berlin on April 1, 1891 for one year . There since the captain transported Wundt was then a company commander in the 7th Infantry Regiment. 125. With its commanding Prussia followed on 18 June 1895, the transfer to the General Staff. Here, Wundt became major on December 14, 1897 , and from October 8, 1898 he worked for the General Staff of the 36th Division in Danzig . After being released from his command in Prussia, Wundt returned to Württemberg on January 27, 1900 and was appointed battalion commander in 4th Infantry Regiment No. 122. This was followed by a service in the 2nd Infantry Regiment No. 120 in Ulm from January 27, 1903 to April 23, 1904 . Then Wundt was deployed as a lieutenant colonel with the staff of the grenadier regiment "King Karl" No. 123 .

In this position, Wundt received the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown on February 25, 1906 . With the award the elevation to the personal nobility was connected.

On October 16, 1906, he was assigned to lead the 6th Infantry Regiment No. 124 . With the promotion to colonel on January 27, 1907, Wundt was appointed regimental commander. He gave up the regiment on March 19, 1911 and was given command of the 59th Infantry Brigade in Metz . Under relieved of this command Wundt was on March 31, 1913 presentation of the character as a lieutenant general for disposition made. In recognition of his achievements, he had already received the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown on February 25, 1913.

When the First World War broke out , Wundt was re-used as a ZD officer and on August 2, 1914, was given command of the 51st Reserve Infantry Brigade. From October 1, 1916 to August 25, 1917, he finally commanded the 18th Reserve Division . Subsequently adopted, his achievements were honored on December 22, 1917 by being awarded the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with swords.

Alpinism

The first trip, financed by his father, took the nineteen-year-old lieutenant to Switzerland, where he discovered his love for the mountains. Theodor Wundt later went on frequent trips and developed a special passion for mountaineering since the 1880s , which took him repeatedly to the Swiss Alps , the High Tatras and, from 1887, to the Dolomites , where he initially tours with the mountain guide Michael Innerkofler ( Kleine Zinne ), but then undertook it alone ( Monte Cristallo , Piz Popena , Cadinspitzen and other mountains that were considered difficult or impossible to climb at the time, which is why the valley residents often doubted the ascent or declared it crazy). On his honeymoon in 1894, he climbed the Matterhorn with his wife, the English Maud Walters, 29 years after Whymper had been the first to climb . His companions were Jeanne Immink , with whom he had previously undertaken tours of the Dolomites, and the mountain guide Johann Niederwieser , known as Stabeler. Wundt was, like Jeanne Immink, one of the pioneers of winter mountaineering and climbed in winter still no small feat, mountains like the Mädelegabel , the Zugspitze , the Große and the Kleine Zinne. Wundt published reports on his mountain tours , including at least one book together with his wife, and was one of the pioneers of high mountain photography . From 1913 onwards, novels and plays by Wundt appeared, most of which had the mountain world as their theme, but were not very successful.

Works

• High mountain tours in winter. Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Club 1892.
• The ascent of the Cimone della Pala. Stuttgart 1892.
• Hikes in the Ampezzo Dolomites. Berlin 1893.
• Hiking pictures from the Dolomites. Stuttgart [u. a.] 1894.
• The Matterhorn and its history. Berlin 1896.
• The Jungfrau and the Bernese Oberland. Berlin 1897.
• Engadine, Ortler, Dolomites. by Theodor and Maud Wundt. Published by the Berlin section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1900.
• Up! Stuttgart 1913.
• Discipline. Stuttgart 1915.
• Matterhorn. Berlin 1916.
• Me and the mountains. Berlin 1917.
• Soaring. Berlin 1918.
• The diadem. Berlin 1926.
• Zermatt and its mountains. Zurich 1930.

literature

• Herman Niethammer: The officer corps of the infantry regiment Kaiser Friedrich, King of Prussia (7th Württemberg) No. 125. 1809–1909. Stuttgart 1909. p. 319.

Web links

• Works by and about Theodor Wundt  in the German Digital Library
• Works by Theodor Wundt in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 290.
2. ^ Military Ordinance Sheet. No. 7 of March 22, 1913. p. 31.
3. ^ Military Ordinance Sheet. No. 6 of February 25, 1913. p. 22.
4. ↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 357.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Theodor Wundt: Me and the mountains / A hiking life. With numerous photographic recordings by the author. Bong, Berlin 1917 [1] .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Ursula Schneider: Theodor von Wundt. BM 11/1982, in the historical alpine archive of the alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol [2] .