Viktor Bausch (General)

Gravestone in the Neu Kaliss cemetery

Karl Wilhelm Viktor Bausch (born August 20, 1860 in Düsseldorf , † October 23, 1923 in Baden-Baden ) was a German infantry general .

Before the war began, Bausch was in command of the 66th Infantry Brigade stationed in Metz . With the mobilization he took over the leadership of the 33rd Reserve Division as Lieutenant General on August 2, 1914 . During the Battle of Longwy (August 22), his division took part in the fighting there from the fortress of Metz and then took part in the first attack on the fortress of Verdun . After the start of the trench warfare in 1915, Bausch and his division were in the section of the 5th Army Corps at the Strantz Army Department on the Combres high altitude position. The 33rd Reserve Division took part in the attack on Verdun in the summer of 1916 and was the XVIII. Subordinate to Reserve Corps . On October 24, 1916, his troops had to give up the Souville Gorge and the village of Vaux before the French counter-offensive.

Viktor Bausch was buried in the family grave in the cemetery in Neu Kaliss , where his grave has been preserved to this day.

Individual evidence

^ Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Armies 1815-1939. Volume 2, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , p. 166; 349
↑ Holger Afflerbach: Kaiser Wilhelm II as Supreme Warlord in the First World War. Sources from the military environment of the emperor 1914-1918. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-486-57581-1 , p. 1009.

personal data
SURNAME	Bausch, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bausch, Karl Wilhelm Viktor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	October 23, 1923
Place of death	Baden-Baden

[1] Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Armies 1815-1939. Volume 2, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , p. 166; 349

[2] Holger Afflerbach: Kaiser Wilhelm II as Supreme Warlord in the First World War. Sources from the military environment of the emperor 1914-1918. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-486-57581-1 , p. 1009.