Anton von Kersting

Anton Joseph Kersting , von Kersting since 1913 (born September 22, 1849 in Anholt , † February 25, 1922 in Lüneburg ) was a Prussian artillery general and 1903/12 director of the Military Technical Academy in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Life

He was the son of Johann Heinrich Klemens Kersting and his wife Bertha Maria Anna Katharina, née Tryst (1808–1879), daughter of a Cologne government councilor.

Kersting spent his high school from 1861 to 1867 at the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck , which he graduated with the Abitur. Kersting later wrote an autobiographical work that mainly deals with his school days on the Gaesdonck.

After completing his training, he joined the Prussian Army . He went through a career in the artillery and was u. a. Commander of the Baden foot artillery regiment No. 14 as well as head of the artillery examination commission. Kersting is considered to be the co-founder of the Military Technical Academy (MTA), of which he was the first director from 1903 to 1912. He was released from this post on January 27, 1912 and transferred to the army officers. Shortly thereafter, on March 9, 1912, he was put up for disposition in approval of his resignation letter, conferring the character of general of the artillery .

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Wilhelm II's reign , Kersting was elevated to the hereditary Prussian nobility on June 16, 1913 by AKO .

With the outbreak of the First World War , he was re-employed as a zD officer and until 1916 he was Deputy President of the Artillery Examination Commission.

family

Anton von Kersting was first married to Maria Sieger (1852–1889), a daughter of Heinrich Xaver Sieger . The couple had four children. After her death he married her sister Ottilie Sieger (1851–1924) in 1891.

Publications

• Experience in shooting from mortars or cannons with small charges during the XXIX. Cursus. 1883.
• Gaesdonck. An old soldier's childhood memories. JP Bachem, 1917.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Volume 91
2. ↑ German Biographical Yearbook, Volume 4
3. ^ Historical yearbook, volumes 40-41 (Georg Hüffer, Hermann Grauert, Ludwig Pastor (Freiherr von), Gustav Schnürer, Görres-Gesellschaft, Franz Kampers, K. Alber Verlag, 1920)
4. ↑ Sciences and Science Policy: Inventories of Formations, Breaks and Continuities in Germany in the 20th Century (Ed. Rüdiger vom Bruch, Brigitte Kaderas, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002)
5. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 14/15 of January 27, 1912, p. 281.
6. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 35 of March 14, 1912, p. 749.
7. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Volume 91.
8. ↑ Sciences and Science Policy: Inventories of Formations, Breaks and Continuities in Germany in the 20th Century (Ed. Rüdiger vom Bruch, Brigitte Kaderas, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002)