Alwin von Loos

Alwin Bruno Leonhard von Loos (born October 28, 1824 in Stettin , † June 20, 1883 in Chiasso ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and commandant of Mainz .

Life

origin

The Loos family comes from the Swedish and was raised to the Swedish nobility on August 27, 1711 with the Swedish major general and commander of Hamburg Cornelius Loos (1686–1738) . His parents were the engineer lieutenant colonel Friedrich von Loos (1772-1836) and his wife Eugenie, née von Liebermann (1788-1844). His brother Hugo (1820–1883) became a Prussian lieutenant general, his brother Woldemar (1814–1852) died as a Prussian captain and military attaché in Paris .

Military career

After visiting the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin , Loos joined the Guard Reserve Infantry (Landwehr) regiment of the Prussian Army on August 9, 1842 as a porter ensign . He advanced on 12 November 1842 Patent of 12 December 1842 second lieutenant , was the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot aggregated and einrangiert on 11 April 1845th From April 1846 Loos was assigned to the combined Guard Reserve Battalion for one year and was deployed in March 1848 to suppress the revolution in Berlin . During his command of the 1st Battalion in the 1st Guard Landwehr Regiment in Magdeburg , he took part in the fighting at Kirchheimbolanden , Wiesental , Neudorf, Durlach and Kuppenheim in 1848 in the suppression of the Baden Revolution . For this he received on September 20, 1849 the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords.

On October 15, 1849 he was appointed adjutant of the 1st Battalion in the 2nd Guards Regiment on Foot. Loos rose to prime lieutenant in mid-August 1854 , was regimental adjutant from November 8, 1855 to February 18, 1857, and was then commanded as adjutant of the 1st Guard Infantry Brigade . After he was promoted to captain in this capacity in mid-September 1857 , he was commanded to serve with Prince Friedrich Wilhelm from June 25, 1859 . With the appointment as company commander Loos resigned on January 24, 1860 in the troop service. In January / February 1861 he accompanied the cavalry general from Waldersee to Stockholm and in October of that year he was commanded by Wilhelm I to Koenigsberg for the coronation celebrations . From January 15, 1863 until his transfer as a major in the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 on April 3, 1866, he was assigned to the General Command of the Guard Corps .

During the war against Austria , Loos was from May 14th to September 17th, 1866 commander of the 1st Battalion in the 1st Guard Landwehr Regiment in Görlitz and took part in the Battle of Königgrätz . After the war, on November 1, 1866, he was transferred back to the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot and was appointed commander of the Fusilier Battalion in the middle of the month. From January 25 to July 5, 1867, he took part as an observer in the Swedish maneuvers near Stockholm. On January 13, 1868 Loos was aggregated into his regiment and sent to Stuttgart as a military officer . During the war against France in 1870/71 he was assigned to the Württemberg field division as a lieutenant colonel , took part in the capture of the Lichtenberg fortress , the battles near Wörth , Sedan and Villiers, and the siege of Paris . King Karl paid tribute to him by awarding him the Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with Swords and the Knight's Cross of his Order of Military Merit . He also received the Iron Cross and the Military Merit Cross, Second Class.

After the peace agreement Loos was on 20 June 1871 position à la suite first with the leadership of the Anhalt Infantry Regiment. 93 in Dessau instructed the commander of this on November 4, 1871 the Association appointed and in this position in mid January 1872 for Colonel promoted. In position à la suite of his regiment, he was commissioned on August 3, 1878 with the leadership of the 37th Infantry Brigade in Oldenburg and appointed on September 20, 1876 as major general brigade commander. In this capacity, Loos was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves and swords on the ring, on the occasion of the festival in January 1879, and the star for the Crown Order, 2nd class, on September 7, 1881 . On October 18, 1881 he was appointed commander of Mainz and on November 21, 1882 he was promoted to lieutenant general.

He died of malaria on June 20, 1883 on a trip to Chiasso and was buried on November 19, 1883 in the Berlin Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Loos married Maria von Reuss (1829-1899), a daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig von Reuss, on May 3, 1851 in Berlin. She was buried on April 24, 1899 in the Invalidenfriedhof.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 450-451, no. 3006.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg for 1879. Schulze, Oldenburg 1879, p. 184.