Adolf von Rabenhorst

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Adolf Bernhard Rabenhorst , from 1856 von Rabenhorst (born January 25, 1846 in Dresden , † August 1, 1925 in Niederlößnitz ) was a Saxon artillery general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the later Saxon Minister of War and General of the Infantry Bernhard Rabenhorst and his wife Julie Luise, née Hörnig (1817-1865), who was married to him in Dresden in 1841. His father was raised to the hereditary nobility for himself and his descendants in 1856 as lieutenant general by King John of Saxony .

Military career

Rabenhorst joined the Saxon Army in 1861 . He took part in the German War in 1866 and in the war against France in 1870/71 . As major general (since 1896) he was in command of 1st Field Artillery Brigade No. 12 from April 1, 1897, and as Lieutenant General he was in command of 2nd Division No. 24 from March 23, 1901 to June 18, 1904 . He was then placed on disposition as general of the artillery .

family

Grave of Adolf von Rabenhorst in the Dresden North Cemetery

He married Margarete Ernestine Freiin von Hausen in October 1872 (* May 2, 1850 in Leipzig; † October 28, 1918 in Niederlößnitz). They had at least one daughter and one son. The daughter Elsa Luise Ottilie Margarethe (* July 17, 1873 in Dresden; † April 1, 1948) was married to the government assessor Eduard Gustav Joseph Heusch (* June 6, 1866; † March 17, 1902 in Wiesbaden). The son Bernhard Ludwig (born November 13, 1878 in Dresden) died in the First World War on August 28, 1914 in Sorinnes on the Western Front (First World War) .

Rabenhorst was buried in the Dresden North Cemetery after his death .

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of Noble Houses, Part B. Verlag Perthes, Gotha 1927, p. 712.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Uwe Schirmer:  Rabenhorst, Adolf Bernhard von (Saxon nobility 1856). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 69 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Ranking list of the Royal. Saxon. Army for the year 1909. Dresden 1909. S. 488f.
personal data
SURNAME Rabenhorst, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabenhorst, Adolf Bernhard von; Rabenhorst, Adolf; Rabenhorst, Adolf Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon general of the artillery
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1925
Place of death Niederlößnitz (Radebeul)