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Friedrich Wilhelm
Karl von Bock und Polach
(18.05.1849 -
13.10.1934)
place of birth: Haus Sandfort
Königreich
Preußen: KG, Stellv KG, General der Infanterie
General Friedrich von Bock und Polcah served as a
Prussian corps-level commander in the latter part of the 19th century. On the
suggestion of his brother, the later Field Marshall Max von Bock und Polach
(1842–1915), Friedrich began his military career as a Fähnrich with Infantry
Regiment Nr.55, immediately seeing action at Kissingen during the
Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Following the hostilities, Bock was
commissioned as a Sekonde-Lieutenant and thus saw action during the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.
After having commanded
the 37th Division in Allenstein (1901) and the 1st Division in Königsberg
(1902), General von Bock was charged with the Führung, or provisional
leadership of von Massow's IX. Army Corps in Hamburg-Altona. General von Bock
was then put in full command of IX. Corps in 1904 and went on active-reserve
status in May 1907.
General von Bock und Polach was reactivated
at mobilization in order to command V. Army Corps headquarters in Posen during
the final three years of the Great War.
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