Karl Bruno
Julius von Mudra
(01.04.1851 - 21.11.1931)
place of birth: Bad Muskau
Königreich
Preußen: OBH, General der Infanterie
Imperial German General der Infanterie
who served most of his military career with the combat engineers. At
war's outbreak he was attached to the Crown Prince's Fifth Army as
commander of XVI. Army Corps in Metz. His troops were tasked with
blocking French forces in the Argonne as they
sought over the next two months to punch through the frontier. Von
Mudra was subsequently awarded the Pour le Merite
in 1915 for his outstanding leadership and planning in the successful
conduct of this assignment.
In March 1916, General von Mudra arrived
at Verdun where he was to command Angriffsgruppe-Ost
(Assault Group East), the combined German
forces based on the left bank of the Maas River. This
contingent is also referred to as Maas Group East - Verdun
and existed within the Fifth Army. After the Verdun conflict cooled
off, von Mudra transferred East where he replaced von Fabeck as
commander of the new Eighth Army (previously Army of the
Niemen) headquartered at Mitau in
present-day Latvia. In January 1917, he returned to the Western Front
for the remainder of the Great War, commanding Army Detachment A in Alsace-Lorraine,
as well as brief stints with First Army in Rethel
and Seventeenth Army in Denain and Mons.
After Ludendorff stepped down in late October 1918, generals von Mudra
and von Gallwitz were ordered back to Berlin where they heatedly argued
in front of the Kaiser's military cabinet for the continuance of
Germany's war effort, Mudra going as far as to suggest arming the
entire German populace. The cabinet decided not to take their advice,
however, and von Mudra's military career came to a close.
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General von Mudra |
General von Mudra made his mark in Prussia's
pre-war military forces by raising the level of competence and utility
of the combat engineers. He was also known as a specialist in fortress
defenses. Currently, the top officer candidates who graduate from
Germany's Combat Engineers School earn the Mudra Award
in his honor. Von Mudra's son Herbert served on the Western Front as an
observer with the 27th Aviation Detachment, and later as regimental
adjutant for Leib-Garde Nr. 115. On 21 November 1931 at the age of 80,
General of Infantry Bruno von Mudra died and was buried in Zippendorf,
located in the present-day state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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General
der Infanterie |
13.09.1911 |
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Eisernes
Kreuz II |
Deutsch-Französischer
Krieg 1870–1871 |
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Pour
le Mérite |
13.01.1915
(Eichenlaub: 17.10.1916) |
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