Walter von Bergmann

Walter Friedrich Adolf von Bergmann (born April 16, 1864 in Magdeburg , † March 7, 1950 in Berlin ) was a German infantry general in the Reichswehr .

Life

origin

Walter was the son of the later Prussian general of the infantry Julius von Bergmann (1834-1908) and his wife Hermine, née Goering (* 1844).

Military career

Bergmann joined the 2nd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 32 of the Prussian Army in Meiningen as an ensign on April 15, 1882 from the Cadet Corps and was promoted to Second Lieutenant there on October 16, 1882 . From October 6, 1888 to October 24, 1889, he served as an adjutant battalion and was then transferred to the same position in Infantry Regiment No. 145 in Metz . As Prime Lieutenant (since March 22, 1891), he was assigned to the War Academy in Berlin from October 1, 1891 to July 31, 1894, as well as being transferred to the Brandenburg Jäger Battalion No. 3 in Lübben on March 25, 1893 . For further training, Bergmann joined the General Staff on March 22, 1895 , became a captain on March 19, 1896 and remained there until December 15, 1899. Bergmann was then assigned as a company commander in the 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109 in Karlsruhe and reassigned him to the Great General Staff on April 22, 1902. A short time later, Bergmann was appointed First General Staff Officer of the 30th Division on May 17, 1902, and promoted to Major on September 12, 1902 . As such he was from April 24, 1904 to January 29, 1906 in the same function in the General Staff of the XVI. Army Corps . This was followed by his transfer to the Great General Staff and his simultaneous command in the Prussian War Ministry . There he took over as chief of the army department on December 19, 1911 and was promoted to colonel on April 22, 1912 . With effect from July 4, 1913, Bergmann was appointed commander of the infantry regiment "Graf Bose" (1st Thuringian) No. 31 in Altona , which he commanded until the start of the war.

When the First World War broke out , Bergmann became chief quartermaster of the 1st Army . He received the rank of brigade commander shortly thereafter and was promoted to major general on Christmas Eve 1914 . As such, he was from May 13 to June 30, 1915 Chief of the General Staff of the Lochow Army Group , which was deployed on the Western Front at La Bassée and Arras . He was then used again as chief quartermaster in the 1st Army and from September 30, 1915 in the same function in the 12th Army . He then acted there as chief of the general staff. For a short time Bergmann was then Chief of the General Staff of the 8th Army , was relieved of his post on November 16, 1916 and made available as an officer by the army. On November 28, 1916, Bergmann was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Romanian Military Administration. There he worked until February 24, 1917 and then took over as commander of the 113th Division , which was initially under the command of Army Division C west of Mulhouse in Alsace and was involved in trench warfare. During the spring offensive of 1918 , considerable successes were achieved with the capture of Maissemy and the pursuit of the enemy as far as the Montdidier area. For this he was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite on May 8, 1918 . On June 15, 1918, he was promoted to Lieutenant General and as such Bergmann was appointed on September 22, 1918 with the leadership of the General Command z. b. V. 66 , which he held until the end of the war, commissioned.

After the war he was made available again as an officer by the army, but on January 19, 1919 he was appointed commander of the 13th Division . In the Reichswehr , Bergmann was commander of military district V (Stuttgart) from October 8, 1919 , from April 8, 1920 leader of Reichswehr Group Command 1 and from September 27, 1920 its commander-in-chief. In this function, he was promoted to General of the Infantry on December 18, 1920. Bergmann resigned from active service on December 31, 1922 and was retired.

After his departure, Bergmann was appointed chief of the 6th Infantry Regiment in Lübeck on October 31, 1925, with Colonel Hartwig von Bülow as regimental commander, and then on April 20, 1937, appointed chief of the 90th Infantry Regiment in Hamburg .

Awards

Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class

Order of the Red Eagle II class with swords and oak leaves

Order of the Crown II class with swords and star

Wound badge (1918) in black

Service award cross

Bavarian Military Merit Order II. Class

Commander 1st class of the Albrecht Order with swords

Commander II class of the Frederick Order with swords

Commander II. Class of the order of the Zähringer lion

Hanseatic Cross Hamburg

Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross II. Class

Mecklenburg Cross for distinction in the Second Class of War
Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order with swords
Reussian Cross of Honor 1st Class with Swords
Commander of the Franz Joseph Order
Iron crescent

literature

Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweig: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite. Volume 1: A-G. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 95-97.

Web links

Literature by and about Walter von Bergmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Walter von Bergmann in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

↑ Königliches Heroldsamt (ed.), Marcelli Janecki : Handbuch des Prussischen Adels. First volume, ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1892, p. 56.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Reichswehr Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1929, p. 33.
↑ Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914, p. 196.

personal data
SURNAME	Bergmann, Walter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bergmann, Walter Friedrich Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1950
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Königliches Heroldsamt (ed.), Marcelli Janecki : Handbuch des Prussischen Adels. First volume, ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1892, p. 56.

[Rangliste1929-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Reichswehr Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1929, p. 33.

[Rangliste1914-3] Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1914, p. 196.