Robert Alexander Bürkner
(06.12.1870 - 19.03.1925)
place of birth: Berlin-Charlottenburg
Königreich
Preußen: AOK-Stabschef,
Oberstleutnant
Imperial
German career officer Robert Bürkner served
during the Great War in corps and field army level general staffs on
both fronts. At mobilization, Major Bürkner saw action on the Western
Front serving on a divisional staff subordinate to the XXI. Army Corps
(6th Field Army). He was wounded at Nancy-Epinal and spent the next
three months on convalescent leave. Upon returning to action in
December 1914, he was transferred to the staff of Korps
Zastrow in the East, where they won a bloody, hard-fought
victory against the Russians at Soldau.
After a few months in Antwerp, Bürkner was
sent back East to function as XXI. Army Corps Chief of Staff under
General von Hutier (later under von Oven). The corps was directed back
to Upper Alsace area on the Western Front in 1917, and in 1918 Bürkner
was promoted to lieutenant colonel and asked to head up the staff of
General Ludwig Sieger's XVIII. Reserve Corps. It was during the Battle
of Kemmel that Bürkner was recommended for the Pour le
Merite. He was then back together with von Hutier by August, serving as
his Chief of Staff in the 18th Field Army.
After the War, Bürkner continued his military
service in the Reichswehr, ultimately earning
promotion to Generalmajor in 1925. The staff officer had been born and
raised in Berlin to the family of Robert Heinrich Bürkner and
Alexandrine Knerk. He was later married to the former Ella Kröhnke,
with whom he had four daughters. General Bürkner died in an apparent
training accident on 19 March 1925 in Königsberg.
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Oberstleutnant |
27.01.1918 |
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Pour
le Mérite |
16.05.1918 |
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