André Auguste Édouard Hirschauer (16 June 1857 in

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– 27 December 1943 in

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and from 1920 to 1936 representative of

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in the Senate.Robert Bowman Bruce A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War -2003 Page 19 "During the course of the meeting, the French politicians and the squadron's American advocates managed to convince the head of the Service Aeronau- tique, General Auguste Hirschauer, of the merits of the plan. At the conclusion of the .." At the start of 1914, General Hirschauer was in command of a brigade of balloons comprising the 5th and 8th Combat Engineer Regiments of Versailles. On 8 February he was appointed Chief of Staff of Paris dealing with engineering of the area southwest of Paris and worked under the command of General Gallieni. But at the outbreak of the war, Hirschauer requested to be sent to the front. He became commander of the 29th Infantry Brigade, and then the 63rd Infantry Division. Promoted to Major-General, he was put in charge of the 18th Army Corps and later the 9th Army Corps. He took part in the battle of the Ourcq, the 2nd battle of Champagne & the

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. He took Craonne in 1917. He did a triumphal entry into

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the 17 November 1918. He ended the war as commander of the Second Army. After the armistice, he was named governor of Strasbourg and retired from service in 1919. He won the senate election in

the 11 January 1920. He was reelected in 1924 and 1932.

Publications

* Auguste-Édouard Hirschauer, ''Paris en état de défense'' 1914 * Auguste-Édouard Hirschauer, ''Les armées aériennes'' 1927

References

Auguste Édouard Hirschauer

External links

Auguste E. Hirschauer
at the Hall of Valor Project , - 1857 births 1943 deaths People from Saint-Avold French generals French Army generals of World War I {{France-mil-bio-stub