Viktor Albrecht

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Viktor Albrecht

Viktor Albrecht (born October 1, 1859 in Danzig ; † November 28, 1930 in Weilburg ) was an officer in the Prussian Army .

Life

Albrecht joined the Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 of the Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer on October 1, 1879 . They then took him on May 9, 1880 as a cadet in the 2nd Nassau Infantry Regiment. 88 , appointed him on July 10 in 1880 Portepee Ensign and promoted him on 12 March 1881 to second lieutenant . From October 1, 1885, Albrecht served as an adjutant in the fusilier battalion of his regiment and from October 1, 1888 to July 22, 1891, he was assigned to the Prussian War Academy for training . In the meantime, on December 14, 1889, he was promoted to Prime Lieutenant and on January 16, 1890, he was transferred to Danzig Infantry Regiment No. 128 . When he was promoted to captain on June 17, 1893, Albrecht was appointed company commander and he held this position after his transfer from March 22, 1897 to January 26, 1900 in the 9th West Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 176 . On January 27, 1900, Albrecht was transferred to the Major and as such in the Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm I." (2nd East Prussian) No. 3 in Königsberg . From April 18, 1901 to November 14, 1904, he was in command of the II. Battalion and then took over the "Fürst Bismarck" (Pomeranian) No. 2 hunter battalion in Kulm until July 6, 1909 . In the meantime they had Albrecht on 10 April 1906. Lieutenant Colonel and on April 20, 1909. Colonel promoted. A short time later, on July 7, 1909, he was appointed commander of the 5th Guards Regiment on Foot . Albrecht held this command until his appointment as Inspector of the Marine Infantry on December 19, 1911. As such, he was also in command of Kiel . On October 1, 1912, he was promoted to major general, and on July 2, 1913, Albrecht took over the 3rd Guard Infantry Brigade .

During the First World War , he commanded the 1st Guard Reserve Division on the Western Front from August 2, 1914 to January 24, 1917 . On April 18, 1916, he was promoted to lieutenant general . From January 24, 1917 to August 27, 1918 he was Commanding General of the XVIII. Army Corps . In June 1917 his troops defended the Wytschaete Arch and were together with the IX. Reserve Corps involved in the Battle of Messines . After the climax of the Battle of Flanders , the XVIII. Army Corps between October 13th and November 14th 1917 referred to as the “ Dixmude ” group. Renamed the "Lewarde" group, the corps' troops took part in the German counter-offensive at the Battle of Cambrai in early December 1917 between Fontaine-les-Croisilles and Bellicourt . During the German spring offensive in March 1918, his corps was assigned to the 17th Army and took part in the breakthrough battle of Monchy-Cambrai and the advance towards Bapaume . For this, Albrecht received the Pour le Mérite on April 9, 1918 .

From October 2, 1918 until the end of the war, Albrecht still ran the newly formed XX. Army Corps on the Eastern Front. Albrecht retired from the Army on September 29, 1919 and received on 29 October 1919 be character as General of Infantry .

Albrecht had been a member of the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg since 1879 .

Awards

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 1: AG. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 7-8.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corp lists 1930 102 /67
  2. ↑ a b c d Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albrecht, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1930
Place of death Weilburg