Kabisch, Ernst Friedrich Karl .

Kabisch, Ernst Friedrich Karl, born 26-06-1866 in Kurwitz, Pommeren, the son of the pastor Albert Kabisch in Dersekow and his wife Anna, born Vogt. Ernst had a sister named Grete.

On 29-03-1884 Ernst joined the 1st West Prussian Foot Artillery Regiment no. From 01-10-1887 to 30-09-1889 he was commanded to the United Artillery and Engineering School and upon his return became an adjutant in the II. Battalion of his regiment. From 01-10-1891 to 21-07-1894 he was commanded to the War Academy and in the meantime promoted to First Lieutenant on 11-09-1893. At the end of September 1894 he married Elisabeth Martens in Thorn. In 1898 he received his Hauptmann’s license, in 1905 he became a major and in 1912 a Oberleutnant. On 22-03-1914 he was promoted to Oberst and in May he was given command of the 5th Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 144, with which he went into World War I. Wounded in September 1914, he then served as Chief of Staff of various staffs throughout the war. In June 1917 he was promoted to Generalmajor as Chief of Staff of the Scheffer Army Department. On 02-11-1917, he was appointed commander of the 81st Reserve Infantry Brigade and on 05-03-1918, succeeding Generalleutnant Oskar von Watters as commander of the 54th Infantry Division, which he commanded beyond the end of the war. Von Watters died 23-08-1939 (aged 77)in Berlin, Germany

In the Weimar Republic he belonged to the provisional Reichswehr and during the Ruhr Uprising in March and April 1920 he commanded the formation of Reichswehr and security police troops known as “Reichswehrbrigade 31”, which operated in the Wesel/Hamborn/Dorsten area and on 19 and 20 March from Düsseldorf, Mülheim and Dorsten had to retreat from the armed workers to Wesel Fortress. During the invasion of the Ruhr area under General Oskar von Watter after the failure of the Bielefeld Agreement, Kabisch occupied an area between Duisburg, Oberhausen-Osterfeld and southern Recklinghausen with his forces. On 05-05-1920, he succeeded Generalleutnant Otto Haas,   who was also involved in fighting the uprising in the Ruhr, as commander of the Reichswehr Brigade 13 of the Transitional Army, which was originally made up of Freikorps.[9] Generalleutnat Haas died on 31-12-1930, age 66, after a long illness. On 27-09-1920, he was appointed Infantry Leader V, i.e. commander of the emerging 5th Division in Military District V in Stuttgart. In this position he was promoted to Generalleutnant. In the course of further army reductions, Kabisch was retired from active service on 15-06-1921.

In retirement, Kabisch worked as a military writer and published a variety of writings. On 27-08-1939, the so-called Tannenbergtag, Kabisch was awarded the character of General der Infanterie.

He was put at the disposal of the Wehrmacht on 01-09-1939, was assigned to the General Staff of Army Group North (from 12-10-1939: Army Group B) and took part in World War II for a few months. On 15-06-1940, his mobilization provision was lifted.  Detachached to the General Staff of Army Group B to 15-06-1940 but at the old age of 74 retired from the Service.

Death and burial ground of Kabisch, Ernst.

Kabisch retired in Berlin, where he at the age of 85 died, on 23-10-1951  and is buried on the Invaliden Cemetery of Berlin, close to SS Gestapo leader, Reinard Heydrich and Armament Minister, Fritz Todt. Only steps away the graves  Generaloberst der Infanterie, Werner von Fritsch, General der Flieger, Chief of the Reichs Air Force Ministry, Carl Gablenz

  , Vice Admiral, Lothar von Arnaud de la Periere, Hauptmann der Wehrmacht, Wolfgang Fürstner the commander of the Olympic village in 1936, Generaloberst der Panzertruppe, Hans Hube, General der Infanterie, Rudolf Schmundt Hitler’s Adjutant who was killed in the bomb attack, on 20^th July 1940, and Oberst der Wehrmacht, Kommandeur des Militärwaisenhaus Potsdam. Resistance Group von Stauffenberg, Wilhelm Staehle.

 Behind his grave the remains of the original Berlin Wall, which seperated the cemetery and West Berlin after the war. Many graves were destroyed.

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