Henning Theodor Wilhelm von Bonin  
(08.02.1856 - 20.03.1923)
place of birth:  Wulflatzke, Kreis Neustettin
Königreich Preußen:  Kmdt Berlin,  Div-Kdr,  General der Infanterie ch.


General von Bonin was a Royal Prussian Guards officer who during the Great War commanded the newly-formed 3. Garde-Infanterie-Division, both on the Western and Eastern Fronts. As a teenager in 1875, Bonin joined 4. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß, a unit where his older brother was already serving. Bonin interestingly did not attend Prussian War Academy nor did he serve on the Great General Staff. He did, however, follow through a typical Prussian officer career succession commanding various Berlin-area guards units at the company, battalion, regiment, and brigade levels. During the year and a half leading up to the August 1914 mobilization, General von Bonin served as the Commandant of Berlin Garrison headquarters, receiving a promotion to Generalleutnant in February 1914.

As Germany marched toward Paris, Generalleutnant von Bonin was assigned command of the newly-established 3. Garde-Infanterie-Division. After successfully battling for the Belgian city of Namur, Bonin and his division were redeployed to the Eastern Front. There they participated in the First Battle of Masurian Lakes and were engaged at Opatów and Iwangorod (Deblin.) Bonin then returned to the Western Front to head up 43. Reserve-Brigade which was fighting in Nouvrons and Soissons, France in support of General Riemann's 22. Reserve-Division. In April 1915, Bonin was transferred to the Aisne region to command 14. Reserve-Brigade, a formation was subordinate to Graf von Schwerin's 7. Reserve-Division. For the next two years, Bonin and his troops fought in the Western Front trenches of Verdun, the Somme, and Champagne. At that point, the 61-year-old commander had had enough and was returned back to Germany to once again oversee the Berlin Kommandantur.

	General der Infanterie	15.09.1918  (charakter)