Ferdinand Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler

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Ferdinand Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler
Generalmajor Ferdinand Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler.jpg
Generalmajor Ferdinand Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler
Birth name Ferdinand Ernst Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler
Birth date 15 September 1891 (1891-09-15)
Place of birth Nürnberg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Death date 8 December 1957 (1957-12-09) (aged 66)
Place of death Schwaig, Bavaria, West Germany
Allegiance  German Empire
 Weimar Republic
 National Socialist Germany
Service/branch Fahne der Bayerischen Armee.png Royal Bavarian Army
Iron Cross of the Luftstreitkräfte.png Imperial German Army
Freikorps Flag.jpg Freikorps
War Ensign of Germany (1921–1933).png Reichswehr
Balkenkreuz.jpg Heer
Years of service 1911–1918
1919
1919–1935
1935–1945
Rank Generalleutnant (Lieutenant General)
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards Iron Cross
Order of the Star of Romania
Relations ∞ 1927 Margarete von Forster

Ferdinand Ernst Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler (15 September 1891 – 8 December 1957) was a German officer of the Bavarian Army, the Imperial German Army, the Freikorps, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht, finally Generalmajor during World War II. He was a member of the German Nobility Association or Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (D.A.G.).

Military career (chronology)

From left to right: Admiral z. V. Werner Tillessen, Chief of the Naval-Liaison-Staff Romania, General der Flieger Josef Kammhuber, Commanding General of the XII. Flying-Corps, Generalmajor Alfred Gerstenberg, Luftwaffe-Attaché at the Legation in Bucharest and Commanding General and Commander of German Luftwaffe in Romania, Generalmajor Ferdinand Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler, Commander of the Local Command Post 917 (Bucharest) and Generalintendant der Marine Walter Braeuer, Chief-Intendant with the German Wehrmacht-Mission in Romania.
  • 24.7.1911 Entered the Königlich Bayerisches 14. Infanterie-Regiment „Hartmann“ in Nürnberg as a two-year volunteer (Zweijährig-Freiwilliger) and Fahnenjunker
  • 7.8.1914 With the 4th Company into the field in WWI
  • 12.8.1914 Transferred to the 1st Company
  • 25.8.1914 Seriously wounded by artillery shell near Hoeville (upper arm, lower leg, chest)
    • Arracourt war hospital, Landau reserve hospital, Nuremberg reserve hospital “Municipal Hospital”
  • 17.1.1915 In the replacement battalion of the 14th Infantry Regiment
  • 31.3.1915 To the 3rd company of the 14th Infantry Regiment in the field
  • 8.4.1915 Leader of the 2nd Company
  • 12.7.1915 to 28.9.1915 Aggravation of the old wound on the arm, in the Liebenzell reserve hospital
  • 29.9.1915 to 20.10.1915 Reserve-Lazarett (reserve hospital) Ansbach
  • 21.10.1915 2. Ersatz-Kompanie/I. Ersatz-Bataillon/14. Infanterie-Regiment
  • 1.12.1915 to 5.8.1916 Commanded to the training course for flag cadets and officer aspirants Grafenwöhr as a training officer
  • 4.9.1916 to 10.9.1916 Commanded to the Grafenwöhr grenade launcher course
  • 16.9.1916 Into the field as leader of the 8. Kompanie/Königlich Bayerisches 19. Infanterie-Regiment “König Viktor Emanuel III. von Italien“
  • 4.10.1916 to 7.10.1916 Because of nerv shock he was taken to Hospital No. 6 of the 5th Bavarian Infantry Division
  • 31.10.1916 Transferred to the Königlich Bayerisches 13. Infanterie-Regiment “Franz Josef I., Kaiser von Österreich und Apostolischer König von Ungarn“
  • 1.11.1916 Leader of the 1. Kompanie/13. Infanterie-Regiment
  • 24.5.1917 to 27.5.1917 Deputy leader of the 13. Infanterie-Regiment
  • 9.6.1917 to 11.6.1917 Once again deputy leader of the 13. Infanterie-Regiment
  • 19.7.1917 to 21.7.1917 Sick with fever
  • 28.7.1917 Transferred to the Prussian reserve field hospital 74 because of gas poisoning
  • 10.8.1917 to 30.8.1917 Recovery vacation to Ansbach and Partenkirchen
  • 1.9.1917 Commanded to the field recruit depot of the 6th Bavarian Infantry Division
  • 15.10.1917 Leader of the 1. Kompanie/13. Infanterie-Regiment
  • 8.1.1918 to 9.9.1918 Service with the Department Ia in the staff of the German Military Mission in the Ottoman Empire (Deutsche Militärmission im Osmanischen Reich)
  • 9.9.1918 to 3.10.1918 Leader of the Rifle Company (Schützen-Kompanie)/Infanterie-Bataillon Nr. 703/Asienkorps (Pascha II)
  • 3.10.1918 to 4.10.1918 Because of malaria and typhus in the German field hospital Rayak
  • 4.10.1918 to 13.10.1918 Military hospital Aleppo
  • 14.10.1918 to 3.11.1918 Military hospital Heidar Pascha
  • 4.11.1918 to 17.11.1918 By train ambulance through Russia
  • 18.11.1918 to 25.11.1918 German military field hospital Posen
  • 26.11.1918 to 12.2.1919 Garrison hospital Ansbach
  • 13.2.1919 to 22.2.1919 Reserve military hospital Hohenaschau
  • 23.2.1919 to 28.4. 1919 Military hospital of the organization “Münchener Krankenhaus“
  • 29.4.1919 to 29.5.1919 Reserve military hospital Hohenaschau
  • 30.5.1919 In the Mortar Company of the Freikorps Epp
  • 1.7.1919 Leader of the Mortar Company 41
  • 11.9.1919 to 15.10.1919 Platoon leader in the Mortar Company/1. Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 41
  • 20.10.1919 Regimental Adjutant of the Counterintelligence Office of the Infanterie-Regiment 14
  • 3.11.1919 Transferred to the 5th Bavarian Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 47 of the Reichswehr Brigade 24, Nuremberg, of the Provisional Reichswehr
  • 4.12.1919 Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Bavarian Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 47
  • 1.10.1920 to 9.03.1921 Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion of the 21st (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment, Nuremberg
  • 1.2.1923 Commander of the 6. Kompanie/21. (Bayerischen) Infanterie-Regiment, Nürnberg
  • 1.10.1926 Commander of the 16. Kompanie/21. (Bayerischen) Infanterie-Regiment, Erlangen
  • 1.2.1930 In the Staff of the Training Battalion of the 21st (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment, Erlangen
  • 1.4.1934 In the Staff of the Kommandantur München
  • 1.3.1937 Commandant of München
  • 25.10.1939 Commander of the Infanterie-Regiment 109, Karlsruhe
  • 1.2.1941 Commander of the Ortskommandantur 917 (Bucharest Garrison Command)
  • 15.3.1944 Commander of the Wehrmacht headquarters in Bucharest
  • 1.7.1944 Führerreserve
  • 15.7.1944 to 23.4.1945 Wehrmacht Commandant München
  • 14.9.1944 Leader of the Central Protection Area (command by Military District Command VII)
  • 23.4.1945 He is to remain city commander and leader of the Central Protection Area under the new combat commander of Munich, the Knight's Cross holder SA-Gruppenführer and colonel of the reserve Bernhard Hofmann
  • 25.4.1945 Handover of command to Colonel Hofmann
  • 30.4.1945 to 1947 Prisoner of War[1]

Family

Ferdinand was the son of Royal Bavarian Major z. D. Adolf Hermann Eduard Konstantin Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler (b. 27 May 1855 in Augsburg; d. 30 January 1921 in Ansbach), horse preliminary inspection commissioner (Pferdevormusterungskommissar), and his wife Marie Aline, née Höschel (b. 21 February 1859 in Kempten; d. 13 April 1929 in Ansbach).[2] He had three siblings:[3]

  • Irma Anna Aline (1885–1931); ∞ 23 June 1906 Edwin Hauberrisser (1882–1964), Rittmeister, Dentist, later Dr. med., Professor of dentistry in Göttingen, member of the NSDAP, the SA and, since 1937, of the Physikalisch-Medizinische Sozietät Erlangen
  • Ernst Adolf Hermann Karl (b. 24 August 1886 in Mögeldorf), 1st Lieutenant in the Königlich Bayerisches 2. Infanterie Regiment „Kronprinz“, on 9 May 1915 near Givenchy with the 7. Bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment in WWI
  • Hermann Ernst Adolf (1889–1961), Oberleutnant of the Imperial Army, Captain of the Reichswehr, Lieutenant Colonel of the Police and Generalleutnant of the Wehrmacht

Marriage

On 11 October 1927, Captain Ritter von Mann Edler von Tiechler married his fiancée Margarete Anna Friederike von Forster (b. 25 August 1907), daughter of Ernst Karl von Forster, Bavarian Commerce Council (Kommerzienrat), factory owner and lord of the manor (Fabrikgut / Industriegut Hammer near Nürnberg).[4]

Promotions

  • 24 July 1911 Fahnenjunker (Officer Candidate)
  • 21 December 1911 Unteroffizier (NCO)
  • 7 March 1912 Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)
  • 25 October 1913 Leutnant without Patent
    • 14 December 1916 Patent as Leutnant with effect from 29 October 1912
  • 17 January 1917 Oberleutnant without Patent
  • 1 July 1922 Patent as Oberleutnant with effect from 18 April 1916
  • 1 February 1923 Hauptmann (Captain)
  • 1 May 1933 Major
  • 1 January 1936 Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel)
  • 1 June 1938 Oberst (Colonel)
  • 8 April 1942 Generalmajor with Rank Seniority (RDA) from 1 April 1942

Awards and decorations (excerpt)

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