Werner Ernst Viktor Egbert von Frankenberg und Proschlitz
(11.10.1868 - 30.03.1933)
place of birth: 
 Stettin, Preußen (Prussia)

Königreich Sachsen:  AK-Stabschef,  Bde-Kdr,  Oberst


Prussian staff officer Werner von Frankenberg was an Army colonel who during the Great War was engaged in various military ventures. He was born into the Silesian Uradel (ancient noble) house of Frankenberg, the son of Generalleutnant Egbert von Frankenberg und Proschlitz. Werner spent a good deal of his pre-War career doing staff work from regiment up to corps level. He likewise traveled a great deal, spending training time in Russia and deploying to China with the Ostasiatisches Expeditionskorps.

Oberstleutnant von Frankenberg was likewise deployed with the German Mission in Turkey when war broke out in August 1914. He was later sent to the Western Front in 1916 to function as Chief of Staff at Hans von Kirchbach's Saxon XII. Reservekorps headquarters. For his exemplary performance during the 1916 Battle of the Somme, he was awarded the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross) of Saxony's highest military order - the Militär-St-Heinrich-Orden. After briefly in command of a grenadier regiment on the Romanian Front, Oberst von Frankenberg was then charged with raising and commanding the German expeditionary force known as the Asienkorps. These troops were deployed in support of the Ottoman war effort. They were initially intended to assist in the recapture of Baghdad but ended up fighting in defense of the Palestine Front. Upon being replaced by Oberst Gustav von Oppen, Frankenberg returned in August 1918 to the Western Front where he headed up a reserve infantry brigade until War's end. He remained on active duty and was eventually promoted to Generalmajor in 1920.

 
 
Oberst  18.08.1916
China-Denkmünze Ostasiatisches Expeditionskorps  1900-01
Militär-St-Heinrich 30.08.1916  Ritter
 
 
 

  
 
Curriculum Vitae
   
01.04.1887 2. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß - Berlin  (Dreijährig-Freiwilliger) 
19.09.1888 Sekonde-Lieutenant
00.00.1892 2. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß - Berlin  (Bn Adjutant)
00.04.1895 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß - Potsdam  (detached for duty)
00.09.1895 2. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß - Berlin
12.09.1895 Premier-Lieutenant
01.10.1895 Preußische Kriegsakademie - Berlin
21.07.1898 2. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß - Berlin
00.00.1898 Russland  (6-month language training in Russia)
01.04.1899 Großer Generalstab - Berlin  (detached for duty from 2.GRzF)
12.08.1900 Armee-Oberkommando in Ostasien - China  (German Army Supreme Command in East Asia, Adjutant
23.03.1901 Hauptmann
00.06.1901 Armee-Oberkommando in Ostasien - China  (German Field Army HQ during Boxer Rebellion, Adjutant)
05.03.1904 Grenadier-Regiment ,,König Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1. Pommersches) Nr. 2 - Stettin  (attached as Coy Cdr) 
00.00.1905 Großer Generalstab - Berlin
10.04.1906 37. Infanterie-Division - Allenstein  (on Kluck's General Staff)
11.09.1907 Major
00.10.1908 Gouvernement - Festung Straßburg i.E.  (Fortress Strasbourg i.E., on Moßner's General Staff)
00.04.1911 Großer Generalstab - Berlin
13.09.1911 II. Armeekorps - Stettin  (detached to Linsingen's General Staff)
20.02.1912 II. Armeekorps - Stettin  (assigned to Linsingen's General Staff)
01.10.1913 Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 5 - Spandau  (on Petersdorff's Regt Staff)
18.12.1913 Oberstleutnant
02.02.1914 Offizier von der Armee:  deutsche Militärmission in der Türkei  (Imperial German Mission in Turkey)
   
Great War
   
02.08.1914 deutsche Militärmission in der Türkei  (Imperial German Mission in Turkey)
29.03.1916 XII. (I. Königlich Sächsisches) Reservekorps  (Kirchbach's Chief of Staff)
18.08.1916 Oberst
05.01.1917 Grenadier-Regiment ,,König Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1. Pommersches) Nr. 2  (Cdr) 
30.04.1917 unknown
00.07.1917 Asienkorps - Palästina Front  (Cdr) 
25.06.1918 unknown
02.08.1918 80. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade  (Cdr)
   
   
 

06.05.1914

 

 

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