Gustav Eduard von Hindersin

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General von Hindersin
Restitution gravestone for Gustav Eduard von Hindersin at the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin (status 2013)

Gustav Eduard Hindersin , since 1865 von Hindersin (born July 18, 1804 in Wernigerode , † January 25, 1872 in Berlin ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

He was the son of pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Hindersin (1754-1824) and his wife Charlotte Beate, née Schmid (1770-1837).

Military career

Hindersin graduated from the Lyceum in his hometown and joined the 3rd Artillery Brigade of the Prussian Army as a gunner on October 16, 1820 . After successfully attending the United Artillery and Engineering School , he was promoted to second lieutenant. From 1829 to 1832 Hindersin continued his education at the General War School . Subsequently he worked as a department adjutant and teacher at the Brigade School in Magdeburg . This was followed by his assignment to the topographic office in 1835/37. Promoted to Prime Lieutenant on December 22, 1838 , Hindersin was assigned to the General Staff on April 7, 1841 . When he was promoted to captain on April 12, 1842, he joined the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps . From there he returned to the General Staff in March 1846 and headed the topographical department as major . At the same time, Hindersin was also a teacher at the General War School in 1847/48.

Following the revolution of 1848/49 , he was assigned to the united federal corps under Eduard von Peucker to suppress the Baden revolutionaries , initially as a general staff officer and later as chief of the general staff. He was captured by the Baden people near Ladenburg and transported to Rastatt , but released there before the city fell. By mid-October 1861, Hindersin rose to lieutenant general .

In the war against Denmark in 1864, Hindersin was entrusted with the technical management of the artillery and engineering attack against the Düppeler Schanzen . For the successful execution he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite on April 22, 1864 . After the war, while maintaining his position as inspector of the 2nd Artillery Inspection, he was appointed 2nd  General Inspector of Artillery . On December 20, 1864, Hindersin finally became Inspector General and Curator of the United Artillery and Engineering School.

In recognition of his achievements during the war of 1864, he was raised to the hereditary nobility on March 22, 1865 and received a coat of arms with elements of the coat of arms of the Scottish family Henderson.

As inspector general he tried to arm the troops with rifled artillery . Before this was achieved, the German-Austrian War broke out in 1866 . Hindersin was commanded to the headquarters of King Wilhelm I. Here he analyzed defects that had come to light and initiated the establishment of an artillery shooting school.

In 1866 Hindersin was promoted to general of the infantry and on January 8, 1868 appointed a member of the National Defense Commission. In the war against France in 1870/71 he took part in the battles at Gravelotte and Sedan as well as in the siege of Paris . In addition to both classes of the Iron Cross , Hindersin received the Grand Cross of the Bavarian Order of Military Merit and the Order of the Württemberg Crown . At the solemn entry into Berlin, Wilhelm I presented him à la suite of the Guard Field Artillery Regiment . In addition, shortly afterwards he awarded Hindersin the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in service .

Two days after his death, he was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin, next to his two oldest children. Kaiser Wilhelm I and Crown Prince Friedrich as well as numerous high-ranking Prussian soldiers took part in the funeral . The graves have not been preserved. The location of Hindersin's last resting place is marked today by a restitution stone.

family

Hindersin had married Ida Stelter (1824-1904) on October 8, 1844 in Königsberg . The following children were born from the marriage:

  • Gustav Otto Friedrich (1845-1853)
  • Ida Mathilde Emma (1846–1870) ⚭ October 8, 1869 Richard Blume, Major a. D. (1837–1889), son of Johann Heinrich Julius Blume
  • Helena Charlotte Wilhelmine (1848–1925)
  • Otto Friedrich (1851–1870), Prussian Second Lieutenant, died in the battle of Gravelotte
  • Alfred Ludwig Franz (1852-1853)
  • Rosa Marie (1854-1926)
  • Marie Anna (* 1857) ⚭ October 14, 1888 Kurt Delbrück , pastor and writer
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (1858–1936), German lawyer and writer
  • Richard Botho (1860–1931), Prussian major, Herr auf Dalkau ⚭ June 23, 1890 Davide Eveline von Hansemann (* 1867)
  • Magda Luise (1865-1936)

Honors

In his native town of Wernigerode, he became an honorary citizen in 1871 and what is now Albert-Bartels-Straße bore his name until 1945. In 1872 the Hindersinstrasse in Berlin-Tiergarten was named after him, at number 4a of which he had lived and which was near the Great General Staff on Königsplatz (today Platz der Republik ); it was drafted in 1972 because of the total destruction of the Spreebogen . Finally, the “Fort Hindersin” (1879–1881) - later “Gambetta” - of the fortress Metz was named after him. On January 27, 1889, Wilhelm II gave the foot artillery regiment No. 2 the name "von Hindersin" as an addition.

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SURNAME Hindersin, Gustav Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1872
Place of death Berlin