Viktor Dallmer

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Viktor Friedrich Adolf Dallmer (born July 25, 1852 in Beinsdorf , Rothenburg district (Oberlausitz) , † January 22, 1936 in Baudach near Crossen an der Oder ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

Dallmer was the son of a Prussian captain and a born von Loeben .

Coming from the cadet corps, Dallmer was transferred to the 5th Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 48 of the Prussian Army on April 7, 1870 as a Second Lieutenant . With the regiment he took part in the war against France in the same year and was slightly wounded in the battle near Mazangé. For his achievements during the war, Dallmer received the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

From November 21, 1872 to September 30, 1875 he worked as a battalion adjutant and then graduated from the War Academy for three years . In the meantime promoted to prime lieutenant, Dallmer acted as regimental adjutant from August 17, 1880. On February 13, 1883 he was transferred as adjutant to the 36th Infantry Brigade in Rendsburg .

On August 14, 1884 he became a captain . On November 17, 1891 he was promoted to major and on May 25, 1898 to lieutenant colonel. On July 22, 1900 he was appointed colonel and commander of the infantry regiment "Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands" (2nd Westphalian) No. 15 in Minden . On April 24, 1904, he was promoted to major general and took command of the 20th Infantry Brigade . On April 14, 1907, he was dismissed as Lieutenant General .

Reactivated at the beginning of the First World War , he became the commander of the 27th Mixed Landwehr Brigade on the Western Front . Dallmer's brigade initially served with the IX. Reserve Corps at Tirlemont and Löwen in the fight against the Belgian Army and strengthened the right wing of the 1st Army from 13 September 1914 during the Aisne Battle in the area northeast of Compiegne near Carlepont.

On April 3, 1916, he became commander of the 10th Reserve Division , which was used as a reserve in the Battle of the Somme during the Battle of Verdun on the west bank of the Meuse and the following autumn . Dallmer was honored for the defensive successes of his division in the Battle of the Aisne on April 26, 1917 with the highest Prussian valor award, the order Pour le Mérite . On June 8, 1918, he was also awarded the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite for the success of his division in the spring offensive .

The promotion to general of the infantry took place after the war on January 26, 1920.

Works

  • History of the 5th Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 48.Berlin 1886.

literature

  • Alfred Cramer : Officer list of the infantry regiment Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands (2nd Westphalian) No. 15. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, p. 26.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 281-282.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichsarchiv (Ed.): Volume I .: The border battles in the west. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1925, war organization of the Western Army from Aug. 18, 1914, p. 669.
  2. ^ Reichsarchiv (Ed.): Volume IV. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1926, p. 472.
personal data
SURNAME Dallmer, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dallmer, Viktor Friedrich Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Beinsdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1936
Place of death Baudach near Crossen on the Oder