Wilhelm von Gluszewski-Kwilecki

Wilhelm von Gluszewski as commander of the Guard Reserve Jäger Battalion (winter 1914/15)

Wilhelm Graf von Gluszewski-Kwilecki , also v. Gluszewski-Kwilecka , until 1907: Wilhelm Gluszczewski (born June 21, 1867 in Bukowitz in the Schwetz district ; † May 30, 1954 in Bad Tölz ), was a German officer , most recently (1939) characterized major general .

Life

Origin, ennobling

Marian Wilhelm Thilo Alexander Gluszczewski was an unparalleled son of Count Gustav Eduard Carl Alexander von Gluszczewski (1837-1870). His father died at the age of 33 as a prime lieutenant in the battle of Mars-la-Tour in the Franco-German War when Wilhelm was three years old. He was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1907 and called himself von Gluszewski from then on; later he also used the title of count , which he was allowed within the nobility in 1927 (in the form of the name Graf von Gluszewski-Kwilecka). The Counts of Kwilecki belonged to the Silesian nobility .

Military career

Gluszczewski began his officer career in 1887 as a second lieutenant in the Royal Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 66 in Magdeburg and specialized in NCO trainer. In 1892 he was posted to the non-commissioned officers' school in Biebrich for a year and promoted to prime lieutenant in the same year. In 1897 he was assigned to the non-commissioned officer school in Neubreisach , where he led the 2nd company. On June 16, 1900, he was transferred as a captain to the 4th Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 67 in Metz and was appointed company leader at the NCO's pre- school in Wohlau . In 1902 he was active again in Neubreisach and belonged to the 7th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 142 , whose 2nd Battalion was stationed in Neubreisach. In 1905 he was transferred to the Potsdam NCO School as a company leader .

With the mobilization at the beginning of the First World War , he received in 1914 as a major in command of the newly established Guard Reserve Jäger Battalion in Potsdam, which with the Guard Reserve Corps initially went to Belgium and in August 1914 as reinforcement on the Eastern Front was sent. Gluszewski was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class in September 1914 . Promoted to lieutenant colonel, from June 1, 1916 to January 1919, he commanded the body grenadier regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm III." (1st Brandenburg) No. 8 . As part of the 5th Division on the Italian front , the regiment stormed the Twelfth Isonzo Battle in autumn 1917 under Gluszewski's leadership, the key Italian positions on Monte Hum as well as Monte Giovanni, Monte Spinh and Castel del Monte. For this Wilhelm von Gluszewski was awarded the military order Pour le Mérite on November 24, 1917 . After the end of the war and the demobilization of the regiment, Gluszewski was the last commander of the Guard Jäger battalion in 1919 until it was dissolved. He was retired from service as a colonel .

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War and the Battle of Tannenberg , he was the most 27 August 1939 Character awarded as a major general.

family

Wilhelm Gluszczewski was married to Klara Vorwerk, with whom he had sons Heinz (* 1896 in Magdeburg) and Gerhard Alexander (* 1897 in Neubreisach).

The son Heinz von Gluszewski (1896–1980), called "Glu", became an aviator in World War I and at the end of the war belonged to Fighter Squadron 4 as a lieutenant and pilot in the Richthofen squadron .

Wilhelm von Gluszewski's younger brother Alexander Glusz (cz) ewski (1870–1918) was also a Prussian professional officer and at the end of the First World War he was missing as commander of the Grand Ducal Hessian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 221 after fighting back in front of and in the Hermann position in Belgium .

Trivia

Wilhelm von Gluszewski was acquainted with Harry Graf Kessler from his time in Potsdam , who mentions him in his diary and who visited him in 1914 in his position in Russian Poland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Hans Ficker: German status surveys from the year 1907. In: Lorenz R. Rheude (Hrsg.): Archive for Stamm- und Wappenkunde. Organ of the Roland Association for the promotion of core, coat of arms and seal customers. 9th year 1908/09. Paper mill b. Roda i. Saxony-Anhalt 1909, p. 49.
2. ↑ Lists of casualties of the German army in the 1870/71 campaign ( list of casualties No. 62 ). Königliche Geheime Oberhof Buchdruckerei, Berlin 1871; Like. Institute for German Nobility Research: Losses of the Prussian nobility 1870/71. Online publication, accessed November 1, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b} GHdA -Adelslexikon, Volume IV. (1978), p. 154; documented by the Institute for German Aristocracy Research : Research and sources on the German aristocracy ("III. Non-complaints under nobility law by the Ehrenschutzbund 1926-1934"); Online publication, accessed November 1, 2016.
4. ^ ^{A b} Evangelical Church Book Office Hanover: Those born and baptized in the Neubreisach garrison in 1897 (baptismal register of the Evangelical Garrison Community Neubreisach, Alsace-Lothringen), page 228, number 11; consulted on November 1, 2016.
5. ↑ Ranking and quarters list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps , Jge. 1887–1908, ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1888 ff. (Digitized by the Military History Research Office , Potsdam); consulted on November 1, 2016.
6. ↑ Hanns Möller : History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume I: A-L. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935, p. 375.
7. ↑ Flieger und Luftschiffer - Heinz Graf von Gluszewski , on www.buddecke.de (with reference to Greg van Wyngarden: Richthofen´s Circus, Jagdgeschwader Nr 1 ( Aviation Elite Units , Volume 16). Osprey Publishing , Oxford 2004); Online publication, accessed November 1, 2016.
8. ↑ Ranking lists of the 3rd Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 66 and the Kulmer Infantry Regiment No. 141, see note 5; German casualty lists of the First World War: Issue 24 from September 15, 1914 (Prussia 25), p. 157; Edition 2235 of December 3, 1918 (Prussia 1307), p. 28051; Combat calendar ( memento of November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) of the regiment (source: F. W. Deiß: Die Hessen im WW. Verlaganstalt Dr. Wilhelm Glaß & Co., Charlottenburg 1930), photo by Alexander Gluszewski ( memento of November 4, 2016 in Internet Archive ) from the same source ("Major Gluszewsky", Kdr. RIR 221 from June to October 1918), accessed on November 3, 2016.
9. ^ Günter Riederer and Ulrich Ott (eds.): Harry Graf Kessler. The diary . Vol. 5: 1914-1916 (= publications of the German Schiller Society; Vol. 50.5). Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, pp. 131, 179.