Waldemar Christ

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Waldemar Christ (born July 26, 1855 on the Mannsdorf manor , Neisse district , † February 1, 1921 in Berlin-Friedenau ) was a Prussian major general .

Career

Origin and family

Christ was the son of the Prussian magistrate and landowner to Mannsdorf Emanuel Christ (1817–1883) and Bertha Migula (1829–1876). On 20 June 1880 he married in Berlin Paula Golz (* 1863), daughter of the Judicial Council Dr. Heinrich Golz (1825–1898) and Paula Melz (1831–1902).

His younger sister Anna Elisabeth "Anneli" Christ was married to the Prussian Major General Robert von Dobschütz .

military

From October 17, 1876, he worked as a second lieutenant in the Silesian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 6 in Glogau . In 1879 he was assigned from the garrison in his hometown of Neisse to the United Artillery and Engineering School in Berlin. He stayed there until 1880, before returning to the old regiment in Glogau between 1881 and 1883. On April 15, 1884, he was promoted to lieutenant prime minister. A little later he worked again in Neisse, where he was promoted to captain on April 16, 1889 . In the following four years he worked as a teacher at the Hanover War School , then he was appointed company commander in the Lower Silesian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 5 in Posen .

In 1895 he became director of the artillery depot in Rastatt and three years later he became an artillery officer at the shooting range in Wesel . On April 18, 1899, as part of his promotion to major, he was transferred to the staff of his old foot artillery regiment No. 6 in Neisse. From there he moved on to Königsberg in 1901 as a department commander in the East Prussian foot artillery regiment No. 1 and in 1903 as commander of the III. Division in the 1st Pomeranian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 2 to Pillau .

From 1904 he worked as an artillery officer at the shooting range in Gdansk . On September 15, 1905, he was given the rank of lieutenant colonel before he became director of an artillery depot in Darmstadt in 1906 and in Kassel in 1907 . In 1908 he was promoted to colonel , and in 1909 he was put on the disposition and worked as commander of the foot artillery firing range Wahn near Cologne . In 1911 he was appointed major general and from active service adopted . He spent his retirement in Berlin-Friedenau until his death on February 1, 1921 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Finding aid for Ottomar Krug: Deutsche Generale 1867–1945 in the holdings of the Federal Archives , Freiburg im Breisgau 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Christ, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannsdorf manor , Neisse district
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1921
Place of death Berlin-Friedenau