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Karl
Philipp Ludwig Ritter von Schoch
(05.08.1863 - 10.10.1940)
place of birth: Nürnberg, Mittelfranken
(Nuremberg, Bavaria)
Königreich
Bayern: Div-Kdr,
Generalleutnant
General
Karl von Schoch was a Royal Bavarian officer charge of the
4th Bavarian Infantry Brigade as Imperial German forces mobilized for World
War One. He was born into the Franconian home of Oberst Karl
Schoch and his spouse Maria née Heymann. There were
additionally three other sons in the Schoch family, all of whom served
as Royal Bavarian generals: Albert, Emil, and Gustav.
Generalmajor Schoch led his 4th Brigade
soldiers into battle as hostilities broke out on 2 August 1914,
fighting in support of Crown Prince Rupprecht's Sixth Field Army. For
his leadership during the early stages of the War,
Schoch was awarded the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross) of
Bavaria's highest military order - the Militär-Max-Joseph-Orden. He
was officially presented with the decoration on 18.09.1914.
In 1915, the recently ennobled Ritter von Schoch successfully commanded
21st Brigade on the Eastern Front during the breakthrough at Gorlice,
as well as the retaking of Fortress Przemysl. Back in the West in 1916,
he led the 21st as they stormed the Avocourt Forrest near Verdun,
although he soon became gravely ill. 1917 saw him take charge
of General von Mudra's Line-of-Communications for Armeeabteilung "A".
He was named commander of the Royal Bavarian Ersatz Division in October
of that year, but was soon transferred to head up Bavaria's 3rd
Infantry Division, a unit he was to command for the remainder of the
War.
Ritter von Schoch left the Army in 1919 and
spent his post-War years as a member of the Deutsche
Volkspartei (DVP). From 1920 to 1924, he represented the DVP
at the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic years. Schoch was married
to Mathilde Bohn in 1897, and the couple had one son. He later married
Elisabeth Keller soon after the Great War came to
a close.
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