Robert Kosch

Robert Paul Thedor Kosch
Born	5 April 1856 Klodzko, Lower Silesia
Died	22 December 1942 Berlin
Buried	Invalid's Cemetery, Berlin

Robert Kosch (5 April 1856 in Kłodzko-22 December 1942) was a Prussian General of the Infantry during World War I.

Life

Robert was the youngest of ten children of Hermann and Agnes Kosch.

After visiting the cadet corps came Kosh on 23 April 1874 as a second lieutenant in the 4th Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment Nr. 51 of the Prussian army a. From 1877 to 1880, he graduated from the Military Academy . On April 3, 1880 he married Gertrude Noeggerath, with whom he had three daughters. From 1 April 1881 to 31 March 1887 at the battalion and regimental adjutant Infantry Regiment no. 132 in Glatz, he was on 1 April 1887 the General Staff to Berlin commanded. There were other various uses.

On 22 April 1912 he was appointed lieutenant-general conveyed and received on June 4, 1912, the appointment as commander of the10th Division in Poznan . With this major unit he fought after the outbreak of World War I successfully at the Western Front . On 9 October 1914, he became the leader of the I. Army Corps appointed in Lithuania, where his troops opposed the numerically superior Russian forces and after initial withdrawal in the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes were successful. For these successes Kosh was the Order Pour le Mérite excellent. On 11 June 1915 the commanding general of the X. Reserve Corps appointed, he led this in the battles on the Dniester, Gnisa Lipa, Krasnostaw up to the bug . Then he was transferred to the Balkans, where he met with the under his101st and 103rd Division the campaign against Serbia participated. For this success Kosh received on 27 November 1915, the Oak Leaves to the Pour le Mérite.

End February 1916 at Verdun used, he was promoted on 18 August 1916 General of Infantry. On August 28, 1916, the appointment was made ​​the leader of the newly formed General Command (CUA) no. 52 , with which it has been used in the Bulgarian Danube region to protect against also been made ​​in the war Romanians. In the multi-day battle at Argesch , late November to early December 1916, the Romanians, the Romanian capital were defeated and Bucharest occupied, so the collapse of Romania's western and northwestern front was sealed. From 1 May 1917, he led the temporarily . 9 Army until the arrival of John Ebens as the new commander in chief.

After dissolution of the Danube Army in March 1918 Kosh participated in the occupation of the Ukraine and the struggles against the leaders of the General Command 52 Red Army part. On 1 May 1918 the appointment as commander of all troops in Taurida and the Crimea took place. After the war, he took over command of the Border Guard East before he retired from the Army on January 10, 1919.

Kosh died in 1942 and was buried in the Invalids' Cemetery. His grave has not survived.

References

• • Hanns Möller: Geschichte der Ritter des Ordens „pour le mérite“ im Weltkrieg. Band 1: A–L. Verlag Bernard & Graefe. Berlin 1935. S. 607–609.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: Die Ritter des Ordens Pour le Mérite des I. Weltkriegs. Band 2: H–O. Biblio Verlag. Bissendorf 2003. ISBN 3-7648-2516-2. S. 254–256.