Max Hermann Bauer ( German: Max Hermann Bauer ); (January 31, 1869, Quedlinburg - May 6, 1929, Shanghai ) - German gunner, participant in the First World War , after its end - the Kuomintang military and industrial adviser.
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He joined the German army in 1890. In 1905 he received a post in the General Staff . [4] Later he became an artillery specialist and during the First World War he took part, among other things, in the storming of the Liege fortress in Belgium in 1914. In July 1915, he became Chief of Section I of the General Staff. Known for his contribution to the mobilization of German industry for the production of ammunition . He is the author of a booklet on defensive tactics. In December 1916 he was awarded the Prussian Order of Pour le Mérite , and on March 28, 1918, he additionally received oak leaves to it.
After the war, Bauer participated in the Kappovsky putsch of 1920. After his failure, he was forced to leave Germany and worked as a military adviser in the USSR, Spain and Argentina . He returned to his homeland in 1925 after a general amnesty for the coup participants.
In 1926, a Chinese engineer and rector of the University. Sun Yat-sen in Guangzhou, Chu Chia-hua , invited Bauer to become a military and economic adviser in China. In 1927, Bauer met with Chiang Kai-shek , who hired him as an adviser, wanting to use his connections to get more weapons and industrial support from Germany.
In 1928, Bauer returned to Germany with the goal of establishing contacts with German industrialists and the army. Due to the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty in Germany, however, it was difficult to organize the production of any military products. In addition, Bauer was persona non grata in relation to the German government because of his participation in the coup. Nevertheless, Bauer was still able to facilitate the conclusion of trade agreements with China and establish ties with the secret German mission in Nanjing .
When Bauer returned to China, he proposed the formation of several small but well-trained and armed military units as the core of the Chinese army and, in addition to them, many local militias. Chiang Kai-shek rejected his idea, as he suggested that the organization of local militias would lead to a concentration of military power in the field. However, Bauer succeeded in initiating the transfer of the Wampu Academy from Guangzhou to Nanjing, [4] where it became the central military academy, and staffing its teaching staff with German instructors. He invited 20 German officers to China to work there as instructors in combat training and military intelligence . Formally, Bauer was an economic adviser to Kai-shek and was involved in infrastructure development.
Max Bauer died of smallpox on May 6, 1929. Perhaps he was deliberately infected at the direction of one of his ill-wishers, as he was the only person in the region who had the disease. [4] He was buried in China with military honors. His body was later returned to Germany and reburied in the city of Swinemuende on August 5, 1929.
See also
- German-Chinese cooperation (1911-1941)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118657593 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 20th century press archives - 1908.
- ↑ 1 2 Faceted Application of Subject Terminology
- ↑ 1 2 3 John P. Fox (1970): Max Bauer: Chiang Kai-Shek's First German Military Adviser.