Auguste Edouard Hirschauer

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General Auguste-Edouard Hirschauer, Chief of French Military Aeronautics, contemplating changes to the French Aviation Service, 1917
With Mustafa Kemal Bey (Atatürk) during the Picardie army manoeuvres.

Auguste Edouard Hirschauer (born 16 June 1857 in Saint-Avold, Moselle, France, died 27 December 1943 in Versailles, Yvelines, France) was a French lieutenant general in the First World War and from 1920 to 1936 representatives of Lorraine in the Senate.

At the start of 1914, General Hirschauer was in command of a brigade of balloons comprising the 1st and 8th Combat Engineer Regiments of Versailles. On 8 February he was appointed Chief of Staff of Paris dealing with engineering of the area southwest of Paris and worked under the command of General Gallieni.

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Military offices
Preceded by
Pierre Roques
Permanent Inspector of Military Aeronautics
1912-1913
Succeeded by
Félix Paul Antoine Bernard
Preceded by
Félix Paul Antoine Bernard
Director of Military Aeronautics
1914-1915
Vacant
Title next held by
Henry Jacques Regnier
In 1916



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