Adolf Eduard von Thile

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Adolf Eduard von Thile after a drawing by Franz Krüger

Adolf Eduard von Thile (born April 2, 1784 in Dresden ; † August 24, 1861 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

family

Adolf Eduard was the son of the Prussian general Alexander Heinrich von Thile (1742-1812) and his second wife Henriette Friedericke, née von Runckel (1747-1829). The marriage had four children, of which only one sister, Emilie Charlotte Auguste, married von Thiesenhausen (* 1777), and his older brother Ludwig Gustav von Thile reached adulthood.

Adolf Eduard, who is also known as Thile II to distinguish himself from his older brother , married in 1811 at Gut Zschernowitz with Guben Auguste Ulrike Antoinette von Schöning (1788-1859), daughter of District Administrator Carl Heinrich von Schöning . The marriage had seven children, including the future Prussian general Rudolf von Thile (1826–1893), Anna (1830–1908), wife of the regional president Gustav von Diest , and Hermann von Thile (1812–1889), German diplomat, and Hugo ( 1817-1894) became the general of the infantry.

Military career

Thile began his career in the Prussian Army in 1795 as a junker in the von Arnim infantry regiment , which was stationed in Berlin . As a young officer, he was often used for military survey work. In the battle of Jena and Auerstedt and in the battle of Pułtusk he took part in 1806 as a general staff officer in the Russian army and in 1807 in the corps L'Estocq .

After the Peace of Tilsit , Thile was a general staff officer in the Lower Silesian Brigades under Friedrich von Kleist in Frankfurt (Oder). Under his command, Thile took part in the Russian campaign and acquired the order Pour le Mérite and the cross of the Legion of Honor in the battles near Eckau , Ruhenthal and Kyopen . Yorck chose him for the delicate task of delivering the signed Tauroggen Convention to the King in Berlin.

At the beginning of the wars of liberation he was appointed chief of the general staff in the Kleist corps. For his service in the Battle of Dresden he received the Iron Cross First Class. Thile took part in all decisive battles of the Wars of Liberation. On June 23, 1815, he was chosen to bring the Belle Alliance victory news to the king in Merseburg , and on that day he received the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite order.

At his own request, he was dismissed from the General Staff Service in September 1815 and assigned to the Kaiser Alexander Grenadier Regiment , where he got to know the front line service. After he was appointed commander of the 33rd Infantry Regiment in Stralsund from 1816 , he was promoted to inspector of the Landwehr in the Opole district in 1817 . He put down his criticism of the poor condition of the Prussian Landwehr in a memorandum in 1818.

In 1821 he became a member of the commission for the revision of the drill regulations for the infantry, which was chaired by the Prince of Prussia . This collaboration resulted in a close relationship with the Prussian royal family. So he was chosen by Prince Wilhelm in 1823 as a companion on a trip to Brest-Litowsk and in 1830 by the Crown Prince as a companion on a trip to Warsaw . In the same year he was appointed commander of the 7th Division . Thiele was an outstanding troop leader who brought the 7th Division to a high level of training through tireless activity and always constant comradeship.

After eight years as a division commander, now a received Lieutenant General transported Thile 1838 as commanding general of the III. Army Corps in Frankfurt (Oder). In 1840, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. him in the same position with the VIII. Army Corps in Koblenz . During these years he was frequently ordered to inspect troops at home and abroad, as great importance was attached to his wise judgment, frank speech and careful advice. On March 3, 1842, he received permission to wear the Grand Cross of the Military Karl Friedrich Order of Merit . In 1845 Thile reported to the Minister of War Hermann von Boyen of an increasing dissatisfaction in the officer corps. He named the causes and anticipated the revolution that broke out in 1848 . In recognition of his many years of service, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV awarded him the Brilliant Order of the Red Eagle First Class on February 27, 1846 .

When he received the order to mobilize his troops on February 29, 1848 , he was no longer able to cope with the efforts and asked for his departure, which the king approved in a letter of March 30, 1848.

Thiele retired to Frankfurt (Oder), where he lived with his wife and unmarried older brother Louis Gustav until his death.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Priesdorff, Vol. IV, p. 382; the ADB and, based on it, the GND standard data record name 1783 as the year of birth
  2. Priesdorff, Vol. IV, p. 384.