GERMAN SOLDIER DEAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19456, 12 October 1926, Page 9

GERMAN SOLDIER DEAD.

GENERAL VON HEERINGEN. PART IN THE GREAT WAR. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. fßecd. 9.5 p.m.) BERLIN. Oct. 10. The death is announced of General Von ffeeringen, aged 76. Josias Vou Herringeri, the German general, was born .in Munich, in 1850, at Casse], where his father was a high official. In 1867 he entered a fusilier regiment, and lie was severely wounded at Worth during the Franco-German War of 1870-1. In 1887 he was given a post in the Ministry of War; in 1892 he was appointed head of a section of the Great General Staff; in 1895 colonel -and commander of an infantry regiment; in 1898 major-general and director of the Army Administration Department of the War Office; in 1901 lieu-tenant-general ; in 1903 commander of the 22nd Division; in 1906 general of infantry and leader of the 2nd Army Corps; and in 1909 Minister of War. In that capacity he presented three sets of Army Estimates to the Reichstag, those of 1911, 1912 and 1913. After the last of these had "been voted he resigned to succeed Freiherr von der Goltz as Inspector-General of the 2nd Army District (Berlin). On January 27, 1914, he was promoted- "colonel-general." On the outbreak of the Great War Von Heeringen was given the command of the left wing of the German forces in Tipper Alsace, and in the first battle of the campaign he drove back toward Bel fort the French troops which had occupied Altkirch and Mulhouse. He then fought successfully alongside the armies of the Crown Prince Rupprecht. By October, 1914, most of the German troops in Alsace had been sent to the west, whither Von Heeringen went to help the first, and second armies, which had retreated from the Marne to hold the line of the Aisne. With part of his 7th army he consolidated his position on the heights south of Laon. In August, .1916, he was put in command of coast defences, but in the next month the post was abolished, and on November 18 he was retired. In December, 1924, he celebrated his golden wedding.