Walter von Schleinitz

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Walter von Schleinitz

Walter Freiherr von Schleinitz (born September 26, 1872 in Grunewald , † July 19, 1950 in Handorf-Hornheide ) was a German infantry general .

Life

Schleinitz came on 1 April 1892 as a cadet in the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot in Berlin and was here on 18 October 1892 Ensign appointed and on 18 November 1893. second lieutenant promoted. From 1899 to 1903 he served as adjutant of the Fusilier - battalion and then came under simultaneous promotion to lieutenant in the same capacity to the commander of the military training area Döberitz . After five years of service, Schleinitz returned to his regular regiment on May 18, 1908, became a captain and took over a company as such . As head of the 11th Company, he was transferred to Spandau on October 1, 1913, to the Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 5 .

With this he moved into neutral Belgium at the outbreak of World War I and took part in the fighting for Namur . After the commander's failure, Schleinitz was in command of the fusilier battalion until the end of August. His regiment then moved to the Eastern Front , where it was first used in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes . After that he fought u. a. in the battle of Łódź . At the end of March 1915 he had to give up his post due to illness. A month later, after his recovery, he resigned his regiment and was appointed commander of the 2nd battalion on June 2, 1915. With this he stayed in the east for the time being, took part in the conquest of the Rozan fortress and fought in the battle of the Narew . Schleinitz was promoted to major on August 18, 1915 . After further fighting u. a. in the battle of Vilna his regiment was withdrawn from the front and relocated to the west. There it was mainly involved in trench warfare for Arras before the unit entered the Battle of the Somme . During the fighting there, Schleinitz was wounded by shrapnel on September 8, 1916. After a stay in the hospital and recovery, he returned to the field in mid-January 1917. At Havrincourt, his regiment was commissioned to expand the Siegfried Line on February 9, 1917 . At the beginning of April this was followed by the battle of Arras and further trench warfare in the Artois . In June Schleinitz acted as a substitute regimental commander. After four weeks of battles at Lens , the regiment returned to Flanders . At Zonnebeke Schleinitz defended the section assigned to him despite heavy losses and was able to prevent enemy forces from breaking through. By AKO it was to be used by Wilhelm II. Of the 31 October 1917 le Mérite Pour awarded. From mid-December 1917 on, Schleinitz was deputy commander of the 5th Guards Regiment on foot and at the same time entrusted with the command of the unit. During the spring offensive he was able to distinguish himself once more and on April 11, 1918, he became commander of the field recruits depot of the 4th Guard Division and on July 26, 1918, commander of the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 .

After the armistice , his regiment was transported from Flanders and relocated to Rosenberg in Silesia , where it was used in the border guards from November 24, 1918 . Schleinitz gave up this command in March 1919 and became the commander of the Hindenburg Freikorps in Kolberg . This went on January 1st, 1920 in the Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 2 and Schleinitz acted as commander of the 1st battalion from this point on. In this position he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on October 1, 1920 and was simultaneously transferred to the 1st (Prussian) Infantry Regiment . From December 1, 1922 to September 30, 1926, Schleinitz was the commander of the Arys military training area and then took over as a colonel (since January 1, 1925) command of the 18th Infantry Regiment stationed in Paderborn . He handed this position over to his successor Colonel Hugo Zeitz on February 28, 1928 and was then appointed Commandant of Berlin . On 1 January 1929 he was promoted as such to Major General and awarded him on December 1, the 1929 character as a lieutenant general . Effective January 31, 1930, he resigned from his post, was dismissed and retired.

On August 27, 1939, the so-called Tannenberg Day , Schleinitz was given the character of General of the Infantry .

Awards

literature

  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1935, pp. 264-266.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 219-221.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the units and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , p. 31.
  2. ↑ a b c War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 159.
  3. ^ A b c d e f g h i Reichswehr Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1924, p. 117.
personal data
SURNAME Schleinitz, Walter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schleinitz, Walter Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German infantry general and knight of the Pour le Mérite
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Grunewald
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1950
Place of death Handorf-Hornheide