Julius Friedrich Riemann  
(16.04.1855 - 15.06.1935)
place of birth:  Graudenz, Westpreußen  (Grudziadz, PL)
Königreich Preußen:  General der Infanterie


Imperial German general Julius Riemann served during the Great War as a corps commander. Germany's mobilization day saw General Riemann in charge of 15th Division, subordinate to VIII. Army Corps (Fourth Army). Two months into the hostilities, he replaced General Tülff von Tschepe und Weidenbach as commander of VIII. Corps. Riemann was promoted to General der Infanterie on the Kaiser's birthday in early 1915 as his troops remained involved in heavy fighting in the Champagne region near Perthes. Kaiser Wilhelm visited the area himself in March 1915, when he personally presented Riemann with the Pour le Merite medal in recognition of his outstanding leadership.  

After the fighting settled in late March, VIII. Army Corps was transferred to the Artois to support Sixth Army headquarters during the springtime battles fought at La Bassée and Arras. Riemann and his corps then fought in the trenches along the River Aisne from September through November subordinate to Germany's Seventh Army. Shortly before Christmas 1916, General von Riemann left for the Eastern Front to head up VI. Army Corps fighting in support of Heeresgruppe Linsingen in the Pripyat Swamp region near Stochid (Ukraine). In September 1917, Riemann and his corps moved north to assist Eighth Army in the successful assault on Riga, Latvia. General Riemann thereafter was placed on reserve status and remained in that capacity until retiring in March 1918. After the War, the National Socialists named the army barracks in Düren in Riemann's honor. The highly-decorated general passed away in Wiesbaden at 80 years of age.

	General der Infanterie ....	27.01.1915
	Pour le Mérite ....................	16.03.1915