General of the Infantry Robert Kosch


Historical picture document from Illustrirte Zeitung from 1916 (no reprint - no copy)


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    Robert Paul Theodor Kosch (* 5. April 1856 in Glatz; † 22 December 1942 in Berlin-Halensee) was a Prussian infantry general and commander of the First World War. Robert was the youngest of ten children of Hermann Kosch and his wife Agnes, née Heinrich. After visiting the cadet corps, Kosch resigned on April 23. April 1874 as second lieutenant in the 4. Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 51 of the Prussian Army. From 1877 to 1880 he graduated from the War Academy. At 3. On April 1, 1880 he married Gertrude Noeggerath, with whom he had three daughters. from 1 April 1881 to 31. March 1887 Battalion and Regimental Adjutant at Infantry Regiment No. 132 in Glatz, he was born on 1. April 1887 commanded to the Great General Staff in Berlin. Various other uses followed. on the 22nd On April 4, 1912 he was promoted to Generalleutnant and received his June 1912 appointment as commander of the 10. Division in Poznan. After the outbreak of the First World War, he fought successfully with this large unit on the western front. On the 9th In October 1914 he was appointed commander of the I Army Corps fighting in Lithuania, which opposed the numerically superior Russian troops and, after an initial retreat, was successful in the Winter Battle of Masuria. For this, Kosch was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite. on the 11th Appointed Commanding General of the X. Reserve Corps on June 1, 1915, he led it in the battles on the Dniester, Gnisa Lipa, Krasnostav to the Bug. He was then transferred to the Balkans, where he served with the 101st under his command. and 103. Division took part in the campaign against Serbia. On the 27th. On November 19, 1915, Kosch received the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite. Deployed at Verdun from the end of February 1916, he was released on 18 April 1916. Promoted to general of infantry in August 1916. On the 28th. August 1916 he was appointed Commanding General of the newly formed General Command (e.g. V.) No. 52, with which he was deployed in the Bulgarian Danube region to protect against the Romanians who had also joined the war. The Romanians were defeated and the Romanian capital, Bucharest, was captured in the Battle of the Argesch, which lasted several days, at the end of November and beginning of December 1916, which sealed the collapse of the Romanian western and north-western fronts. From 1. May 1917 he temporarily led the 9. army until the arrival of Johannes von Ebens as their new commander-in-chief. After the dissolution of the Danube Army in March 1918, Kosch took over as Commander of General Command 52 took part in the occupation of Ukraine and the fights against the Red Army. On the 1st On 1 May 1918 he was appointed supreme commander of all troops in Tauria and Crimea. After the end of the war, he took over command of the East Border Guard before leaving on 10. January 1919 retired from army service. Kosch was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin in 1942. The grave has not been preserved.
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    • Robert Paul Theodor Kosch (* 5. April 1856 in Glatz; † 22 December 1942 in Berlin-Halensee) was a Prussian infantry general and commander of the First World War. Robert was the youngest of ten children of Hermann Kosch and his wife Agnes, née Heinrich. After visiting the cadet corps, Kosch resigned on April 23. April 1874 as second lieutenant in the 4. Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 51 of the Prussian Army. From 1877 to 1880 he graduated from the War Academy. At 3. On April 1, 1880 he married Gertrude Noeggerath, with whom he had three daughters. from 1 April 1881 to 31. March 1887 Battalion and Regimental Adjutant at Infantry Regiment No. 132 in Glatz, he was born on 1. April 1887 commanded to the Great General Staff in Berlin. Various other uses followed. on the 22nd On April 4,