Armand of Lucadou

Paul Armand von Lucadou (born June 15, 1826 in Berlin , † September 23, 1911 in Baden-Baden ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the later Prussian Lieutenant General Franz von Lucadou (1783-1860) and his wife Elisabeth Marie Luise, née Johannot d'Echendens (1798-1869).

Military career

Lucadou attended the technical institute of Dr. Hahn and the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Breslau. He then studied law at the universities of Breslau and Heidelberg with the aim of pursuing an administrative career. On April 1, 1844, he joined the 2nd Rifle Division of the Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer . When he was released from the reserve , Lucadou was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the 10th Landwehr Regiment.

From April 1, 1847, he worked as an auscultator at the Berlin Regional Court. As a secondary lieutenant in the reserve, Lucadou took part in the crackdown on the uprising in Poznan in 1848 and in the street fighting in Wroclaw in 1849 on the occasion of the revolutionary unrest . At the suggestion of his father, he decided to become an active officer. Lucadou was therefore taken into active employment on May 7, 1850 and employed as a second lieutenant with a patent from April 26, 1850 in the 11th Infantry Regiment . There he acted from March 6, 1852 as adjutant of the II. Battalion and graduated from October 1854 to July 1857 for further training the general war school . As Prime Lieutenant , Lucadou was a company commander in his regiment until he was assigned to the topographical department of the General Staff in early May 1860 . When he was promoted to captain at the end of December 1860, he was transferred to the adjutant's office and Lucadou became the personal adjutant of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia . He accompanied him in the war against Denmark in 1864 and received the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords , for his behavior in the storming of the Düppeler Schanzen .

On December 24, 1865, Lucadou became a major on the General Staff. As a military attaché he was sent to the Italian Army from May to December 1866 and during this time Lucadou took part in the campaign against Austria at the Italian headquarters . King Victor Emmanuel II paid tribute to him in October 1866 by being awarded the Commander's Cross of the Military Order of Savoy . After his return, Lucadou was appointed wing adjutant on duty by King Wilhelm I at the end of the year , and in this position was promoted to lieutenant colonel in March 1868 . In April 1868 he accompanied the Crown Prince to Italy on the occasion of Crown Prince Umberto's wedding celebrations . In GHQ Lucadou took during the war against France in 1870/71 in the battles at Gravelotte , Beaumont , Sedan and Le Bourget and the siege of Paris in part. He was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords and was promoted to colonel on January 18, 1871 . Retaining his position as wing adjutant, Lucadou was the commander of Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 from June 20, 1871 to February 10, 1875 . He was then appointed commander of Frankfurt am Main and in this position promoted to major general on April 18, 1875 and to lieutenant general on March 30, 1881. In approval of his resignation request , Lucadou was put up for disposal on March 26, 1884 with the statutory pension .

After his farewell, Wilhelm II paid tribute to him by awarding him the Order of the Red Eagle First Class with oak leaves and swords. In addition, on January 1, 1902, he received permission to wear the uniform of Queen Augusta Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 4. After his death, Lucadou was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin.

family

Lucadou had married Hildegard Franziska Marie Friederike Pauly (1840-1918) on March 14, 1874 in Wiesbaden . The daughter Hildegard (* 1875) emerged from the marriage and on November 24, 1892, she married the future Prussian infantry general Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler (1852-1908) in Berlin .

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 303-304, no. 2896.
• Maximilian von Koenig: The chiefs and officers of the 2nd Silesian Infantry Regiment, today's Grenadier Regiment King Friedrich III. (2. Silesian) No. 11. 1808-1908. Verlag Wilhelm Korn, Breslau 1908, pp. 210-211.

Web links

• Lucadou, Armand of. Index entry: German biography.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Volume 5, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632802 , p. 248, no. 1534.