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Hermann Christlieb Matthäus von Stein
(13.9.1854 - 26.5.1927)
place of birth:  Wedderstedt  (Harz)

Imperial Prussian general of artillery and Minister of War. He was born into the home of Pastor Hermann Robert Stein and his wife Julie Friederike Meyer. He was married to Elise Meyer in May of 1883.

General von Stein served as von Moltke's deputy at Supreme Command (OHL) at war's outbreak. He later succeeded Wild von Hohenborn as Germany's Minister of War. One of Ludendorff's so-called lackies, he was known as an overbearing, tactless and inept administrator who could not think or write coherently. He died of a heart attack on 26 May 1927 in Lehnin. Minister of War Hermann von Stein is not to be confused with the Bavarian General of Artillery Hermann Freiherr von Stein.

 




Assignments and Commands  (pre-War)
00.00.1873 Feldartillerie-Regiment ,,General Feldzeugmeister” (1. Brandenburgisches) - Brandenburg
00.00.1883 Königliche Kriegsakademie - Berlin
00.00.1886 Feldartillerie-Regiment ,,General Feldzeugmeister” (1. Brandenburgisches) - Brandenburg
00.00.1888 Großer Generalstab - Berlin
00.00.1894 34. Infanterie-Division - Metz  (General Staff)
00.00.1901 1. Lothringisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 33 - Metz  (Cdr) 
00.00.1903 Großer Generalstab - Berlin  (Section Chief)
00.00.1908 Großer Generalstab - Berlin  (Senior Quartermaster General)
22.04.1912 41. Infanterie-Division - Deutsch Eylau  (Cdr)
   
Assignments and Commands  (during Great War)
02.08.1914 Oberste Heeresleitung  (Quartermaster General)
14.09.1914 XIV. Reservekorps  =  7. Armee     (replaced Schubert)
29.10.1916 Preußisches Kriegsministerium - Berlin  (Minister of War)     (replaced Wild von Hohenborn)
10.10.1918 zur Disposition gestellt
   
Pour le Merite:  1 September 1916
à la suite:  Chef des Feld-Artillerie-Regiments Nr. 33  (9.10.1918)
highest rank:  General der Artillerie

 


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