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Otto Hartmann (general)
Otto Hartmann (11 September 1884 – 10 July 1952) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Family Otto Hartmann was born on 11 September 1884 in Munich in the Kingdom of Bavaria as the son of ''Generalmajor'' Richard Hartmann and Rose Maria, ''née'' Schönlin. He was married in 1911 to Franziska, ''née'' Steger. The couple had one daughter and one son.German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Personalakte von Otto Hartmann, BArch PERS 6/181 Military Career Royal Bavarian Army Hartmann passed out of the Bavarian Cadet Corps and entered the ''10. Feldartillerie-Regiment'' of the Bavarian Army, Royal Bavarian Army in Erlangen as a ''Fähnrich'' (officer candidate) on 6 July 1903. He was commissioned a ''Leutnant'' on 8 March 1905. He was promoted to ''Oberleutnant'' on 28 October 1912 and sent to the War Academy (Kingdom of Bavaria), Bavarian War Academy on 1 October 1913 for general staf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is not a state of its own. It ranks as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The metropolitan area has around 3 million inhabitants, and the broader Munich Metropolitan Region is home to about 6.2 million people. It is the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, third largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Munich is located on the river Isar north of the Alps. It is the seat of the Upper Bavaria, Upper Bavarian administrative region. With 4,500 people per km2, Munich is Germany's most densely populated municipality. It is also the second-largest city in the Bavarian language, Bavarian dialect area after Vienna. The first record of Munich dates to 1158. The city ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalitarianism, totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies of World War II, Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, End of World War II in Europe, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power. A 1934 German referendum confirmed Hitler as sole ''Führer'' (leader). Power was centralised in Hitler's person, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XV Royal Bavarian Reserve Corps
The XV Royal Bavarian Reserve Corps / XV Bavarian RK () was a corps level command of the Royal Bavarian Army, part of the German Empire, German German Army (German Empire), Army, in World War I. History The Corps was formed on 1 September 1914 as the temporary Corps Eberhardt, named for its commander General of the Infantry (Germany), General der Infanterie Magnus von Eberhardt, military governor of Strasbourg, then in the German Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine. On 1 December 1914, it was established as XV Reserve Corps and, on 1 September 1916, it was renamed as XV Bavarian Reserve Corps. It was still in existence at the end of the war in Armee-Abteilung A, ''Heeresgruppe Herzog Albrecht von Württemberg'' on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front. On 15 September 1914, Corps Eberhardt totalled 43 battalions, 6 squadrons, 30 batteries (172 guns) & 9 Pioneer companies. It was organized as follows: On 10 December 1914, XV Reserve Corps was organized as follows: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Front (World War I)
The Western Front was one of the main Theatre (warfare), theatres of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the Imperial German Army, German Army opened the Western Front by German invasion of Belgium (1914), invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in Third Republic of France, France. The German advance was halted with the First Battle of the Marne, Battle of the Marne. Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trench warfare, trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France, the position of which changed little except during early 1917 and again in 1918. Between 1915 and 1917 there were several offensives along this Front (military), front. The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. Entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire, and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Army Group (Ottoman Empire)
The Eastern Army Group of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: ''Şark Ordular Grubu'' or ''Şark Orduları Grubu'') was one of the army groups of the Ottoman Army. It was formed during World War I. World War I Order of Battle, June 1918 In June 1918, the army group was structured as follows:Edward J. Erickson, ''Order to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War'', Greenwood Press, 2001, , p. 188. Eastern Army Group (Ferik Vehip Pasha) * Third Army, (Ferik Mehmed Esad Psaha) ** VI Corps (Mirliva Hilmi Pasha) *** 3rd Caucasian Division (Kaymakam Edib Bey) *** 36th Caucasian Division (Kaymakam Hamdi Bey) ** 5th Caucasian Division ( Miralay Mürsel Bey) ** 37th Caucasian Division (Miralay Köprülü Kâzım Bey) ** Rumeli Detachment * Ninth Army, (Mirliva Yakub Shevki Pasha) ** I Caucasian Corps (Mirliva Kâzım Karabekir Pasha) *** 9th Caucasian Division, 10th Caucasian Division, 15th Division ** IV Corps (Mirliva Ali Ihsan Pasha) *** 5th Division, 11th Div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixth Army (Ottoman Empire)
The Sixth Army of the Ottoman Empire ( Turkish: ''Altıncı Ordu'') was one of the field armies of the Ottoman Army. It was formed in the middle 19th century during Ottoman military reforms. Formations Order of Battle, 1877 In 1877, it was stationed in Baghdad. It was composed of: *Infantry: Six line regiments and six rifle battalion.Ian Drury, Illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri, ''The Russo-Turkish War 1877'', Men-at-Arms 277, Ospray Publishing Ltd., Reprinted 1999, , p. 35. *Cavalry: Two line regiments. *Artillery: One line regiment (9 batteries). *Engineer: One sapper company. Order of Battle, 1908 After the Young Turk Revolution and the establishment of the Second Constitutional Era on July 3, 1908, new government initiate a major military reform. Army headquarters were modernized. Its operational area was Mesopotamia. It commanded the following active divisions: The Sixth Army also had inspectorate functions for four ''Redif'' (reserve) divisions:T.C. Genelkurmay Başkan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yildirim Army Group
The Yıldırım Army Group or Thunderbolt Army Group of the Ottoman Empire or Army Group F (German: ''Heeresgruppe F'') was an Army Group of the Ottoman Army during World War I. While being an Ottoman unit, it also contained the German Asia Corps. It was modeled after stormtrooper doctrine. Starting in June 1917, the Yildirim Army Group's first commander in chief was the former Prussian Minister of War and Chief of Staff Erich von Falkenhayn. Von Falkenhayn was replaced by General of the Cavalry Otto Liman von Sanders on 25 February 1918. After the Armistice of Mudros on 30 October 1918, Mustafa Kemal took command until the Group's dissolution a few days later. Establishment Upon the death of Goltz Pasha just prior to Ottoman victory at Siege of Kut in the Mesopotamia front in Iraq, German military mission representative in Constantinople General von Lossow on April 22, 1916 had asked Berlin by telegraph to have (then) chief of German general staff General Erich von Fal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Bavarian Landwehr Division
The 1st Bavarian Landwehr Division (''1. Bayerische Landwehr-Division'') was a unit of the Bavarian Army, part of the Imperial German Army, in World War I. The division was formed on August 21, 1914, as the "Reinforced Bavarian Landwehr Division" (''Verstärkte Bayerische Landwehr-Division'') and was also known initially as the Wening Division (''Division Wening''), named after its commander, Otto Wening. It became the 1st Bavarian Landwehr Division in September 1914. The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was formed from various separate Landwehr units. Although called Bavarian, the division initially included several non-Bavarian units: the 14th Landwehr Infantry Brigade included one Bavarian and one Württemberg regiment; the 60th Landwehr Infantry Brigade (initially commanded by Lt. Gen. Hans von Blumenthal, who had come out of retirement) comprised a regiment formed in Alsace-Lorraine and another formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauptmann
() is an officer rank in the armies of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It is usually translated as ''captain''. Background While in contemporary German means 'main', it also has, and originally had, the meaning of 'head', i.e. ' literally translates to 'head-man', which is also the etymological root of ''captain'' (from Latin , 'head'). This rank is equivalent to the rank of captain in the British and US Armies, and is rated OF-2 in NATO. : Currently, there is no female form within the German military (such as ''Hauptfrau''): the correct form of address is "''Frau Hauptmann''." More generally, a Hauptmann can be the head of any hierarchically structured group of people, often as a compound word. For example, a is the captain of a fire brigade, while refers to the leader of a gang of robbers. Official Austrian and German titles incorporating the word include , , , and . In Saxony during the Weimar Republic, the titles of , and were held by senior civil servants. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Royal Bavarian Division
The 5th Royal Bavarian Division was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army which served alongside the Prussian Army as part of the Imperial German Army. The division was formed on October 1, 1890, in Landau as the 5th Division and swapped division numbers with the Nuremberg-based 3rd Royal Bavarian Division in 1901. In Bavarian sources, it was not generally referred to as a "Royal Bavarian" division, as this was considered self-evident, but outside Bavaria, this designation was used for it, and other Bavarian units, to distinguish them from similarly numbered Prussian units. The division was part of the III Royal Bavarian Army Corps. Combat chronicle During World War I, the division served on the Western Front. It fought initially in the Battle of the Frontiers. It then served in the area between the Meuse and Moselle Rivers until October 1915, seeing action on the Meuse heights by St. Mihiel and in the Bois-brulé, and then fought in the Second Battle of Champagne. After a brief per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Academy (Kingdom Of Bavaria)
The Bavarian War College, also Bavarian Staff College ( Ge: ''Bayerische Kriegsakademie'') was the highest military facility to educate, instruct, train, and develop ''general staff officers''. It was active from 1867 to the beginning of World War I in 1914. For a better comparison, equivalent institutions of other countries were those like the older and ten times larger Prussian War College of the Prussian Army in Berlin or the k.u.k Kriegsschule (also a War College) of the Austrian Army in Vienna. The War College was subordinated to the ''Inspektion der Militärbildungs-Anstalten'', a department of the Ministry of War, which was responsible for all training and institutions of the Bavarian Army.''Kriegsakademie'' (German), in Wilhelm Volkert, Richard Bauer: ''Handbuch der bayerischen Ämter, Gemeinden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fähnrich
Fähnrich () is an officer candidate rank in the Austrian Bundesheer and German Bundeswehr. The word comes from an older German military title, (flag bearer), and first became a distinct military rank in Germany on 1 January 1899. However, ranks are often incorrectly compared with the rank of ensign, which shares a similar etymology but is a full-fledged (albeit junior) commissioned officer rank. In the German Landsknecht armies, recorded from ca. 1480, the equivalent rank of a Cornet existed. The cornet carried the troop standard, also known as a "cornet". The rank also exists in a few other European military organizations, often with historical ties to the German system. Examples are the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland (see Fänrik). The French Army has a similar position called an ''Aspirant''. In the Finnish Army and Air Force, () is the lowest commissioned officer rank, which is granted to the soldiers in the national service that have comple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
