Walter Schulz (Lieutenant Colonel)
Walter Schulz (born March 3, 1872 in Berlin , † October 5, 1934 in Bielefeld ) was a Prussian officer , most recently a lieutenant colonel .
Life
Walter Schulz was educated as the son of a later lieutenant general and president of the engineering committee in the cadet corps and in 1891 was hired as porter ensign in the king's infantry regiment (6th Lorraine) No. 145 . There he was in 1892 to lieutenant and in 1900 to lieutenant promoted. Then in 1906 Schulz moved to the General Command of the XVI. Army Corps , where he was promoted to captain on July 21, 1907 , and then in 1908 to the 16th Division in Trier . Then he joined the infantry regiment "Graf Bülow von Dennewitz" (6th Westphalian) No. 55 in Bielefeld in 1910 as company chief .
First World War
With the 7th company of the regiment he went into the first battle near Liège in August 1914 . After further battles and a recovering from injury Schulz was appointed on November 28, 1914 Major and Battalion - Commander promoted. This was followed by further missions on the Western Front , followed by the Battle of Verdun and fighting at the Dead Man . For this and other successful missions of his battalion ( Battle of the Aisne ) Major Schulz was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords in 1917.
After recovering from an illness drawn in the field, Major Schulz was commanded as a training officer for the Sedan troop leader course in January 1918 . After this course was terminated in March 1918, he was commissioned to lead a company commanding course of the VII Army Corps .
On April 8, 1918 Schulz was appointed commander of the infantry regiment "Vogel von Falckenstein" (7th Westphalian) No. 56 . Under his leadership, the regiment was used in further skirmishes and battles on the Western Front (defensive battle between Soissons and Reims ).
After the German spring offensive , Schulz was proposed for the Pour le Mérite . From the order proposal, sent by telegram to the head of the military cabinet : Major Schulz " has repulsed all attacks against the front and the flank of his sector in the most difficult four days of fighting" . By AKO of October 4, 1918, the Supreme Warlord complied with the proposal to award the order. After the armistice , Schulz led his regiment back home, where it was demobilized on December 13, 1918 .
End of career
At the beginning of 1919, Major Schulz took over the leadership of the Klewitz Freikorps , with whom he joined the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 103 in October 1919 , which later became the 6th Infantry Regiment . After presentation of the character as a Lieutenant Colonel Schulz retired on 31 December 1920th He died of a heart attack on October 5, 1934 in his residence in Bielefeld .
Awards
- Red Eagle Order IV class
- Order of the Crown IV class
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Wound badge (1918) in black
- Royal house order of Hohenzollern with swords
- Pour le Mérite
literature
- Hanns Möller-Witten : History of the knights of the order "pour le mérite" in World War I , Volume II M-Z, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 313-315.
- Martin Schultz: "The Infantry Regiment Vogel v. Falckenstein (7th Westphalian) No. 56 in the Great War 1914-18", Albrecht Blau Verlag, Berlin 1926.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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. 222
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulz, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schultz Walther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian officer, last lieutenant colonel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1934 |
| Place of death | Bielefeld |