Viktor Karl Wilhelm Bausch  
(20.08.1860 - 23.10.1923)
place of birth:  Düsseldorf
Königreich Preußen:  Div-Kdr, Generalleutnant


Prussian infantry officer Viktor Bausch commanded 33. Reserve-Division on the Western Front for the first three years of World War One. After joining Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 25 in Straßburg in 1879, Bausch was commissioned as a Sekonde-Lieutenant and spent three years at the Prussian War College, 1887 to 1890. He then served for a total of twelve years as a general staff officer, ultimately assigned in 1907 as Freiherr von Bissing's corps chief of staff at VII. Armee-Korps headquarters in Münster. After having commanded at the regiment level, Bausch was promoted in 1912 to Generalmajor an charged with leading 66. Infanterie-Brigade in Metz.

As Germany mobilized for War in August 1914, Bausch was selected to command Prussia's 33. Reserve-Division. The Battle of Longwy on 22 August
signaled the division's leaving the defense of the Metz Fortress and taking part in the initial attack on Verdun. As the two sides settled in to trench warfare, Bausch's division became part of the Adolf von Oven's V. Armee-Korps as part of Armee Detachment Strantz (Armeeabteilung Strantz.) As Bausch's troops continued to fight near Verdun in the summer of 1916, the formation became subordinate to Generalleutnant Surén's XVIII. Reserve-Korps. While engaged in trench war in the Lorraine region, Bausch relinquished control of his division to General von Barfus in the summer of 1917.

	Generalleutnant	18.04.1915