Gause, Alfred, born 14-12-1896 in Königsberg, Prussia,
joined the Army Service, age 17, on 14-03-1914, as a Fahnenjunker in the Samländisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 18
. Alfred was in the fields of the first war with this Regiment and wounded.
Alfred was awarded with both the Iron Crosses
. In the interwar years he was among the 4,000 officers selected to remain in the Reichswehr, the restricted sized German army. Adopted in the Reichswehr, he was active from 01-10-1919 as adjutant of the Reichswehr Pioneer Battalion 1. On 01-10-1921 Gause was transferred to the 1st (Prussian) Riders Regiment
and commanded to a leaders course training for a staff position of the 1st Division. After a year, he was transferred back to the now renamed 1st (Prussian) Pioneer Battalion. On 01-11-1925 he was transferred to the 1st Battery of the 1st (Prussian) Artillery Regiment to Insterburg. For nine months he was commanded to Pioneer School Munich. On 01-02-1927, Gause became head of the 2nd Company of his pioneer battalion in Königsberg, where he was promoted to Hauptmann. On 01-10-1930, he came to the training squadron of the 16th Horseman Regiment to Hofgeismar. In 1931 he was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Defense, where he was employed in the “Troops Office”.On 01-10-1931 he came for six years to the staff of the 5th Division in Stuttgart, where he was promoted to Major in 1934. In the expansion of the Reichswehr on 01-10-1934 commander of the Wehrkreis V renamed and unmasked in the spring of 1935, this staff was the Generalkommando V. Army Corps,
under command of General der Infanterie Hermann Geyer.
Geyer retired in 1943 and committed suicide on 10-04-1946, age 63. Gause served primarily on the staff of the First Prussian Engineer battalion. With the outbreak of World War II he as a Oberst and commander of the X Army Corps was on the Western Front. In 1940 he landed in the Führer Reserve
and on 01-10-1940 he was Chief of Staff of the XXXVIII Army Corps, under Generalfeldmarschall der Infanterie, Oberbefehlhaber Heeresgruppe Sud, Erich von Manstein




























Death and burial ground of Gause, Alfred.









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