Alexander of Monts

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Carl Ludwig Alexander Count of Monts de Mazin (born August 9, 1832 in Berlin , † January 19, 1889 ibid) was a German vice admiral .

Alexander Count of Monts de Mazin

Life

origin

He was the son of the later Prussian Lieutenant General Karl von Monts (1793-1870) and his wife Karoline Luise Wilhelmine Antoinette, born von Byern (1802-1860).

Military career

Monts entered the Prussian Navy on November 29, 1849 as a cadet, 2nd class, and on November 27, 1856, became a second class lieutenant in the sea . After he was promoted to lieutenant captain in 1864 , he served three years as an adjutant at the then high command of the navy. From 1868 Monts was corvette captain and member of the section for naval and coastal affairs.

Already during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he was entrusted with the overhead management of the harbor lock and then became inspector of torpedo systems and commander of the artillery training ship SMS Renown . In 1874 Monts was promoted to sea captain.

Between 1875 and 1877 Monts made a trip around the world as commander of the SMS Vineta and then commanded the tank frigate SMS Großer Kurfürst when it went down in 1878. In 1881 Monts became rear admiral and from 1883 he held the post of chief of the North Sea naval station in Wilhelmshaven . On September 24, 1884 he became Vice Admiral. Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed him in July 1888 as commanding admiral to deputy head of the admiralty .

family

On May 16, 1863, he married Clara von Ingersleben (born September 13, 1839; † May 18, 1902), a daughter of the privy councilor Ludwig Karl Friedrich von Ingersleben and Sophie von Loga. She was the granddaughter of Major General Kasimir von Ingersleben . The couple had several children:

  • Alexander (1864-1893)
  • Karl Ludwig Eberhard (born March 12, 1866)
  • Erich (born July 31, 1869)

The eldest son Alexander, a lieutenant in the sea , was seriously injured in a grenade explosion on the firing range in Kummersdorf in 1890 . In 1893 he was killed in the suppression of the Dahomey uprising in Cameroon and was buried on site.

Death and grave

Alexander von Monts died in Berlin in 1889 at the age of 56 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, his remains were reburied in a collective grave in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

Honors

In Wilhelmshaven, Montsstraße on Theaterplatz was named after him.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 2: HO. (= Deutschlands Generale und Admirale. 1), Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-2481-6 , pp. 508-510.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses 1874. S. 850.

Web links

Commons : Alexander von Monts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , p. 307, No. 1930.
  2. ↑ Misc. (...) grenade explosion. In:  Linzer Volksblatt für Stadt und Land , No. 168/1890 (XXII. Year), July 23, 1890, p. 4 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / lvb.
  3. ↑ Count Alexander von Monts. In: kotte-autographs.com. accessed on May 15, 2017.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 306, 474.
  5. ^ Street names in Wilhelmshaven , accessed on April 22, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Monts, Alexander of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monts de Mazin, Alexander Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German admiral
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1889
Place of death Berlin