Henry Tureman Allen

Henry Tureman Allen ( born April 13, 1859 in Sharpsburg, Bath County, Kentucky; † August 30, 1930 in Buena Vista, Pennsylvania) was a senior officer in the army of the United States of America. As Commanding General of the American forces in Germany from 1919 to 1923, he gained contributed to the maintenance of Ehrenbreitstein.

Journey

Allen grew up in the state of Kentucky, where he was educated in the military school Peeksville and at the College of Georgetown. In addition, he attended the U.S. Military Academy. From 1885 to 1886 he led an expedition to Alaska, where he explored the region around the rivers Copper, Tanana and Koyukuk. 1882 Allen cavalry lieutenant, 1889, he became first lieutenant. When Major of Volunteers in 1898, he took part in the Cuba and the Philippines campaign. In 1898 he was a regular captain of cavalry in 1899 Major of infantry. In 1901 he was lieutenant-colonel in 1907 again major of cavalry in 1912 then finally lieutenant colonel. On September 1, 1914, he came to the 11th Cavalry Regiment. On 1 July 1916 he was a colonel and commander of the 17th Brigade. On August 5, 1917, the appointment to major general of the army took place. As of March 6, 1921 Allen was Major General of the Rhine troops of the United States.

Allen was active in numerous applications. He was 1888-90 instructor at the Military Academy of the United States, 1890-95 military attaché in Russia and 1897/98 in the German Reich. In 1899 he went to the Philippines, where he was in 1901 governor of the island of Leyte and the organizer of the Philippine police troops. In 1916 he took part in the Mexican Punitive Expedition. From September 1917 Allen commanded the 90th Infantry Division of the American Expeditionary Corps in Europe. He took part in the fighting in the Moselle and Meuse - Argonne section. From November 4, 1918, he was commander of the Eighth Army Corps.

On July 2, 1919, Allen commander of American troops in Germany, on 19 May 1920, a member of the Rhineland High Commission. On February 19, 1923 Allen returned to the United States.

General Allen in Koblenz

Dienstsitz General Allen was the hotel Coblenzerhof on the Rhine from Koblenz, which was relatively central in the American occupation zone in 1919. Koblenz was also the reference point of a rechtsrheinischen American bridgehead. His time in the Rhineland 1919-1923 Allen described in his first time in 1923 published Rhineland- diary. He has tried to maintain a good living with the German population, and braked several times sometimes the harder French action in the occupied zone.

The most prominent merit earned Allen in 1922 when he campaigned for the French Marshal Ferdinand Foch for the preservation of Ehrenbreitstein that should be razed as a result of the Versailles Treaty, together with the other works of the fortress of Koblenz. There are several maintenance requests for the Ehrenbreitstein handed down, including the Provizialkonservator the Rhine Province, Renard, and the Rhenish Association for historic preservation and heritage, but it seems that is the head of the Koblenz Entfestigungsamtes Eduard Hüger, the British Major O'Connor and give everyone a special contribution to. Allen makes this clear in his Rhineland- diary (p. 203, entry 9 February 1922):

In a letter Marshal Foch recognizes my objection to the destruction of the fortress Ehrenbreitstein; they should be preserved as a famous Rhine monument. Previously, my suggestion is to get them been fought by the military high command and the Control Commission. I was determined not to let them destroy it, as long as my strength lasted in the zone. It has value only as a historical monument.

On February 25, 1922, the disposal I.M.K.K. officially the conservation of Ehrenbreitstein.

Honors

A 1920 -built troop transport of the U.S. Navy was called from 1940 USS Henry T.Allen. It was decommissioned in 1946 and scrapped in 1948.

In Koblenz since 2001 reminds the General Allen Street in the former Fritsch Barracks in Lower Mountain at American General.