Alexander Gaede

Albert Alexander Gaede (born December 21, 1813 in Hohenfelde, Randow district , † April 26, 1882 in Stettin ) was a Prussian major general and commander of the 5th Artillery Brigade .

Life

origin

Alexander was a son of the bailiff and landowner Karl Wilhelm Gaede and his wife Juliane Friederike, nee Fiebelkorn.

Military career

Gaede attended secondary school in Schwedt / Oder and, after graduating on April 7, 1829, joined the 2nd Artillery Brigade of the Prussian Army as a gunner . As Portepeefähnrich , he graduated from the United Artillery and Engineering School from October 1832 to June 1835 and advanced to captain and head of the 3rd fortress company by the end of June 1852 . This was followed on July 24, 1852 as an artillery officer from the place in Kolberg . On May 22, 1857, he was reassigned to the 2nd Artillery Regiment when he was appointed chief of the 1st six-pound battery. For the duration of the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War , Gaede was commander of the replacement division in 1859. With promotion to major , he rose to the command of the fortress department on June 14, 1859, and was given command of the III on September 21, 1861. Foot department. At the beginning of July 1865, Gaede was ordered to occupy the border in the province of Posen . After his promotion to lieutenant colonel , he was commanded from February 26, 1865 as a board member of the experimental commission for the artillery testing commission . In position à la suite of his regiment, he was appointed a regular member of the commission on September 24, 1865 and promoted to colonel on September 20, 1866 . On October 30, 1866, Gaede resigned in the troop service, was initially commander of the East Prussian Fortress Artillery Regiment No. 1 in Königsberg and on January 14, 1868 he was commander of the Pomeranian Field Artillery Regiment No. 2 in Stettin. In position à la suite of his regiment, he was appointed commander of the 5th Artillery Brigade in Posen on November 13, 1869 .

During the mobilization on the occasion of the war against France , Gaede became commander of the artillery of the 5th Army Corps on July 18, 1870 and took part in the battles at Weißenburg , Wörth and Sedan as well as the siege of Paris and the battles at Valanton, Petit -Bicêtre and La Malmaison . Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , he was assigned as major general from January 31 to February 9, 1871, with the overall direction of the artillery defense of Fort Mont Valérien . After the peace treaty , Gaede received the Grand Commander of the Bavarian Order of Military Merit on June 10, 1871 . Under awarded the Red Eagle II. Class with oak leaves was him on 14 April 1872, the farewell with pension granted and he on December 28, 1872 Pension zur Disposition asked. He died on April 26, 1882 in Stettin.

His regimental commander, Colonel Hindersin, wrote in his assessment in 1855: “Captain Gaede, artillery officer of the Kolberg square, well educated, has an advantageous military personality, a lively yet firm character and impeccable morality. His military knowledge is almost excellent, his abilities very good. As head of the 3rd Fortress Company, he showed very good caution, activity and energy, thoroughly trained his company and kept it in excellent order and discipline. As the artillery officer of the Kolberg square, he shows a good deal of care for the internal order of the depot. His knowledge and overview of the fort's defensive capabilities can be described as very good. "

family

Gaede married Emilie Francke (1825–1888), a daughter of the court preacher Francke from Kolberg, on November 16, 1850 in Kolberg. The future general of the infantry Hans Gaede (1852-1916) was his son.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 8, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , pp. 332-334, no. 2626.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 24 of June 13, 1857, p. 125.