Military career/development

• 1882: Change of the High School free forest to the cadet house choice place in Niederschlesien
• 1886-1889: Institute for main cadet light field with Berlin; occasional services at the yard as a PAGE.
• 22. March 1889: Entrance into the army as Sekondeleutnant in the infantry regiment king Friedrich William IV. (1. Pommer) Nr.2 in Stettin.
• 18. August 1895-18. August 1897: Exemption as a training officer ("„Instructor "“) for the setting up the Chilean army after Prussian sample
• 18. October 1897: Prime Minister second lieutenant (patent from 27 January 1897) in the guard regiment in Berlin
• November 1899: after application summoning to the imperial colonial force to German southwest Africa
• May 1900: District boss, late district captain of Omaruru
• 12. December 1902: Return to Germany and service in the infantry regiment 92 to Braunschweig
• 22. May 1904: Transport to the captain and company commander of the 2. Company 92
• November 1904: After beginning of the Hererokriegs freiwillige message and reentry into the colonial force. Leader of the 12. Company in 2. Field regiment (IV.Batallion), participation in various engagements of the Herero and/or Hottentottenaufstands.
• April 1907: Commander of the north Namaland.
• 1. June 1907: Collecting main "„of the memorandum over an enterprise against Simon Kopper into the Kalahari "“.
• October 1907: Beginning of the training of the teaching staff for the camel riding and the further preparations.
• 4. March 1908: Erckert begins with the Abmarsch. With the storm on the camp of the Hottentotten to 16. March falls it by a neck shot as one the first Germans and in the desert is bestattet. When one looks for the corpse later, around her on the cemetery of Gochas with Mariental (Namibia) at the edge of the Kalahari to bestatten, one does not find her any longer. Under the there gravestone is therefore an empty grave.

Medal and decoration

"“The course captain of Erckert"”

With large military thoroughness prepare campaign against the "“Simon Kopper Hottentotten"” (today Nama) with tragic outcome literarily by Hans Grimm in his novel "“people without area (1926)"” one regenerated. Captain of Erckert gets the order the last insurgent Hottentotten to fight, those from the Kalahari, from the British area, again and again German settlements and posts attacks. In order the opponents into the desert pursue and to strike to be able plan from Erckert its soldiers with camels to equip. With the utmost care each little thing is planned and the soldiers, who are used to horses, on camels is trained. The time of pursuit is set into the ripe time of the desert melons, which are important as water reserve for humans and animal.

The excerpt concerned appeared also as own booklet "“the course captain of Erckert"” (1932). Grimms book around the intellectual military, which offended again and again in the reality to engstirnigen superiors, announced from Erckert already in the Weimar Republic. In the time of the national socialism Friedrich of Erckert for the model of a generation was finally high-stylized and abused.

Friedrich of Erckert wrote even under alias article for newspapers like "„the future "“and contributed to the book "„with the colonial force by German Africa "“, where he wrote Africanus"” under the alias "“simplex.

Its most well-known quotation, a sense saying, comes of its diary, which one found with the dead one: "“Primarily the largest self-respect -, clean-hold body and soul do nothing common - always control themselves; selbstlos, cheerfully and courageously its - say themselves that a straight, upright attitude also actual enjoys the expression of a straight soul about simple things, nothing impossible require, to an attainable goal however turns patience, perseverance, collected will - lodging never in the dirt. Also the best one can end up occasionally, but in it to remain nobody needs"”

Literature

• Hans Schmiedel: Captain Friedrich of Erckert in German southwest German and its time, Dortmund 1974
• Ernst differently: Captain Friedrich of Erckert - a life picture, in: Military weekly paper 1910
• Julius Ohlemann: At the camel rider corps captain of Erckert, in: "„On far travel "“volume VI, 1909
• without names: Engagements message and ring-back signal on Friedrich of Erckert, in: South West African newspaper of 25." March 1908
• The expedition captain of Erckert against Simon copilot by, in: Magazine "“the week"”, July 1908
• Volker Lohse: 1908 - The Kalaharifeldzug of the Kopper Hottentotten

Left

• Farbportait of Traditionsverband.de
• Family Website of the family federation Erckert/of Erckert/Erkert
• "“The Chilean medal captain of the Friedrich of Erckert"” of Arne
• German colonial encyclopedia "“Friedrich of Erckert"”

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