Adolf von Horn

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Adolf Emil Friedrich Wilhelm von Horn (born May 3, 1819 in Friedrichsthal , † March 24, 1885 in Berlin ) was a Prussian major general and commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade .

Life

origin

Adolf was the son of the economic commissioner and landowner Karl von Horn (1771-1852) and his wife Eva, née Meyer († 1852). The Prussian infantry general August Wilhelm von Horn (1800–1886) was his oldest brother.

Military career

Horn graduated from high school in Königsberg and then joined the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army on May 9, 1835 . By mid-February 1837 he was promoted to redundant second lieutenant and was assigned on November 22, 1837. From September 1, 1841 to March 31, 1848 he worked as a teacher at the United Division School of the II Army Corps . During the campaign against Denmark in 1848 Horn took part in the battles near Schleswig and Düppel and in the following year in the siege of Rastatt when the Baden Revolution was suppressed . From February 1 to November 30, 1850, Horn was a company commander in the 1st Battalion of the 8th Landwehr Regiment to Frankfurt and from March 1 to August 31, 1851 again as a teacher at the United Divisional School of the II Army Corps commanded in Szczecin . Horn rose to Premier Lieutenant in early November 1851 , was briefly company commander in the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Landwehr Regiment in Stettin in autumn 1852 and then from December 1, 1852 to March 31, 1855 as a company commander in the 2nd Combined Reserve Battalion commanded. In the meantime he was promoted to captain on August 14, 1853 . On June 1, 1857 he was appointed company commander in his main regiment and in mid-November 1861 he was promoted to major . Under position à la suite of his regiment, Horn became a member of the directorate of the War Academy on May 3, 1864 .

During the mobilization on the occasion of the German War , Horn was commandant of Magdeburg . On September 20, 1866, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on August 10, 1867, under position à la suite, he became 2nd in command of Sonderburg-Düppel . Promoted to colonel on July 3, 1868, Horn was appointed commander of the Schleswig-Holstein Fusilier Regiment No. 86 to Halle (Saale) on April 27, 1869 . He led this association at the beginning of the war against France in the Battle of Beaumont , in which he was badly wounded by a shot in the chest. After his recovery he took part in the siege of Paris and the battle of Saint-Quentin and received both classes of the Iron Cross for his work .

After the peace treaty, Horn was appointed commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade under position à la suite of his regiment and in this capacity was promoted to major general on March 22, 1873. Under ceremony Red Eagle II. Class with oak leaves to put him on 15 November 1873 board for disposition .

He died in Berlin on March 24, 1885 and was buried four days later in the Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Horn married on July 26, 1841 in Dobberpuhl , Pyritz district, Rosalie von Pirch (1819–1881), who was also buried in the Invalidenfriedhof. The couple had several children:

  • Erich (1845–1871), Dr. jur., Prussian lieutenant in the reserve
  • Agnes (* 1847) ⚭ 1865 Adolf von Horn, Prussian major and gentleman on Mohnhorst
  • Paul (1849–1904), Prussian lieutenant general ⚭ Marie von Bernhardi (1857–1879), daughter of the Prussian cavalry general Otto von Bernhardi

After the death of his first wife, he married her sister Luise von Pirch (1829–1916) in Berlin on March 6, 1882.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daughter of Ernst Georg Felix von Pirch and Johanna Karoline Wilhelmine Meistermann; Cf. Gothaischen Genealogical Pocket Book of Noble Houses. 1923, p. 480 f.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, Adolf Emil Friedrich Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general and commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichsthal
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1885
Place of death Berlin