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Max Stapff
(07.09.1870 - 01.11.1938)
place of birth: Viesebach bei Altenburg
Königreich
Preußen: AOK-Stabschef,
Oberstleutnant (Art)
Imperial German field officer and Blue
Max winner Max Stapff served on several general
staffs during the Great War. Stapff began the War on the Eastern Front
and participated in the Battle of Tannenberg. He
was the Ia, Chief Operations Officer (1.GSO) on staff with General von
Gallwitz as those troops gradually made their way south, engaging the
Russians at Przasnysz, Mlawa,
and Nowogeorgiewsk.
After getting as far south as Serbia,
Gallwitz' Eleventh Army was sent to the Western Front in early 1916 and
saw action at Verdun. Major Stapff was transferred
to serve with General Fritz von Below's First Army shortly after the Somme
Offensive. Continuing his duties as Chief of Staff in Flanders
area for generals Otto von Below and Georg von der Marwitz, receiving
both a promotion to lieutenant colonel and the Pour le Merite
medal. In early 1918, Stapff returned to the eastern
theater and served as Tenth Army Chief of Staff with commander Erich
von Falkenhayn. As the Russians had already capitulated by then, Tenth
Army staff and troops were chiefly engaged in administrative tasks and
overseeing the peaceful transfer of Russian troops to their homeland.
After Armistice, Stapff continued his military service and retired from
active duty in September 1921 as a brevetted Oberst.
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