Alfred von Lyncker

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Alfred Freiherr von Lyncker (born October 3, 1854 in Neuhof-Lasdehnen ; † April 8, 1919 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

He was the son of the Prussian district administrator Richard von Lyncker (1827-1901) and his wife Marie, née Bodendorf (1830-1870).

On April 28, 1872, Lyncker joined the 5th East Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 41 as a second lieutenant from the Cadet Corps . From January 1, 1874 to March 31, 1877 he worked there as an adjutant of the 1st Battalion. He then served until March 31, 1880 as an adjutant at the district command in Königsberg . On March 22, 1881 he was promoted to lieutenant prime minister. From October 1, 1881 to August 21, 1884, he attended the War Academy . From May 1, 1885 to March 22, 1887 he was assigned to the General Staff , where he was aggregated as a captain to the General Staff and assigned to the General Staff on August 16 of that year. Since February 22, 1888 he was part of the General Staff of the IV Army Corps . On January 27, 1891 he became company commander in the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm II." (1st Silesian) No. 10 . On March 29, 1892 Lyncker moved to the General Staff of the 7th Division and was promoted to major on May 31 . On May 14, 1894, he returned to the General Staff of the IV Army Corps. On December 17, 1896 he was commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 71 and on December 7, 1898 was promoted to lieutenant colonel. On May 22, 1900, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the 1st Army Corps . After his promotion on April 18, 1901, he was commander of the Braunschweig Infantry Regiment No. 92 on November 14, 1901 until January 26, 1905 .

On January 27, 1905, he was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade. On May 21, 1907 he received the inspection of the transport troops transferred. This consisted of railroad workers, telegraphers, an airship battalion and an experimental company for motorized airship travel . Lyncker expanded the contingent of telegraph troops from three to five battalions. He ensured that in 1911 the Morse code was replaced by radio telegraphy and the number of field telephones increased. On January 27, 1911 he became lieutenant general . In 1912 he also set up a second railway brigade , which was stationed in Hanau . He also set up a motor vehicle department. In 1912 he was promoted to general of the infantry and took his leave the following year.

He then worked in industry as a member of the supervisory board of Benz & Cie. AG active.

As early as 1907 Lyncker had recognized the value of trucks as a means of military transport, so that in 1908 a subsidy program for trucks was introduced, from which the Braunschweiger Büssing-Werke , among others, benefited as they were one of the four companies that were allowed to build subsidized trucks . These buyers of subsidized trucks received state support of 4,000 marks as well as an annual operating subsidy of 1,000 marks.

family

He married in 1881 in Königsberg in Prussia Franziska Wien (1860-1923), a daughter of the Kommerzienrat Friedrich Werner Wien , Herr auf Bansen, and Franziska le Goullon . The couple had three sons and a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • The law of aviation in a private law relationship based on today's sources of law. R. Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1909, OCLC 18783831 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kortzfleisch: Early v. Lyncker, Alfred. in: The Franco-German War and the Time of Peace since 1871. p. 537.
  2. ↑ Seherr-Thoß, Hans Christoph Graf von:  Lyncker, Alfred Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 586 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Episode 2 of the series on the events in the Braunschweiger Land and the theaters of war from 1914–1918. on der-loewe.info.
personal data
SURNAME Lyncker, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyncker, Alfred Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhof laser stretching
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1919
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf