Alfred von Kühne

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Alfred Kühne , since 1901 by Kühne , (born January 2, 1853 in Weimar , † March 8, 1945 ) was a Prussian general of the cavalry .

Life

Military career

Kühne served as a second lieutenant in the Oldenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 19 around 1877 and was commander of the Magdeburg Hussar Regiment No. 10 from 1900 to 1905 . For his services he was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on January 18, 1901 .

On August 18, 1905, he was initially commissioned to lead the 31st Cavalry Brigade in Strasbourg , and on October 19, Kühne was appointed commander of the large formation and in this position he was promoted to major general on May 18, 1907 . As such, he was from September 2, 1907 to January 26, 1911 in command of the 4th Guards Cavalry Brigade in Potsdam . This was followed by the promotion to lieutenant general with effect from February 2, 1911, a use as an inspector of the 1st cavalry inspection. In approval of his leave request Kuehne was on March 14, 1912, the statutory pension for disposition made and end of the month in honor of his contributions to the star to the Red Eagle Award II. Class with oak leaves and the royal crown.

With the outbreak of the First World War , Kühne was reused as a ZD officer and appointed commander of the 13th Reserve Division . In this capacity he received the character of General of the Cavalry on January 27, 1915 and led his large formation on the Western Front a . a. in the fighting for Verdun . From April 1918 until the end of the war in February 1919 he was commander of the 226th Infantry Division .

Kühne was seen as having many interests and could speak and write Latin , Greek , Italian , French and English .

family

Kühne had married Ella Anna Henriette von der Marwitz (* 1860) on June 29, 1882 in Dillenburg . The following children were born from the marriage:

coat of arms

In red on a golden three-hill, a silver lamb, accompanied by a golden star at the top right, striding backwards, which with its right front hoof carries a silver church flag with a red cross over its shoulder on a golden pole.

On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers is a crowned, golden lion with a shiny shear in his right paw.

Trivia

  • Ernst Ludwig , Grand Duke of Hesse, wrote about his contact with Alfred von Kühne with a "... deepest impression ... [of] a man [it] with a very big heart who has real love for his troops ..." and reports on the unscathed “pilgrimage” in 1914 through the war zone to the place where his son Hans died.
  • In August 1917 he met Philipp Scheidemann on a cure in Kohlgrub, who recorded the meeting impressed by Alfred von Kühne.

literature

  • Gothaic genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Perthes-Verlag , Gotha 1919, p. 476.
  • Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine: Memories: Section 4: Relationship with General Alfred von Kühne. 1914.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . Schulze, 1877, p. 180 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2018]).
  2. ^ Philipp Scheidemann: Memoirs of a Social Democrat, Second Volume: Second Volume . SEVERUS Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86347-572-7 , pp. 50 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kühne, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühne, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1945