Arnold Lequis
German officer (1861-1949)
Arnold Lequis (February 2, 1861 – February 16, 1949) was a German General of the Infantry who commanded the 12th Division during World War I as well as a commander of the Reichswehr during the German Revolution of 1918–19 against the Communists.
Early military career
Lequis attended high school in Osnabrück and Cologne and the Polytechnische Hochschule in Aachen. In 1880, he joined the 8th Pioneer Battalion of the Prussian Army as a fahnenjunker and was promoted to second lieutenant in 1881. By 1896 he was promoted to captain on the general staff. In 1898 he was commanded to the German General Staff and in 1902 worked as a military instructor at the Prussian Staff College.
Service in the German Colonies
In 1900, Lequis took part in the Boxer Rebellion as a company commander in the East Asian Engineer Battalion. In 1904, he was on the general staff of the Legen Command in the colony of German South West Africa during the Herero Wars. In December 1904, when the Baltic Fleet anchored off Lüderitz on its way to Japan, Lequis, despite the tense situation after the Dogger Bank Incident, managed to reach an agreement with the Russian Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky. After a temporary position in the general staff of the governorate of Metz, he retired from the Imperial German Army and was employed on January 11, 1908, in the command of the Schutztruppe in the Imperial Colonial Office. In 1909 he was put in charge of deputizing for the commander of the Kaiserliche Schutztruppe for Kamerun under Major Harry Puder.
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