Arthur Quassowski

Arthur Gustav Ludwig Wolfgang Quassowski (born November 26, 1858 in Kreuznach , † June 17, 1943 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the railway district president Julius Ludwig Quassowski (1824-1909).

Military career

After attending grammar school and training as a cadet , where he graduated with a Selekta , Quassowski was transferred in 1878 as a secondary lieutenant to the Pioneer Battalion No. 11 of the Prussian Army . In 1878/80 he graduated from the United Artillery and Engineering School in Charlottenburg . In 1883 he was involved in the fortification of Ulm . In 1887 he served as a first lieutenant in the Pioneer Battalion No. 9 and in the Infantry Regiment No. 75 , in 1892 as a captain in the Pioneer Battalion No. 10 and 15. In 1900 Quassowski was promoted to the engineer committee in Berlin and in 1902 was promoted to major . In 1905 he was transferred to Mainz Square as an engineer officer and promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1909 .

From 1909 the Selzstellung was built here as an outer fort within a radius of 26 km around Mainz, which was supposed to replace the outdated fortifications. This fourth fortress belt became necessary because the artillery technology was meanwhile able to fire 16 kilometers. In 1912 he returned to the engineering committee as a colonel and department head.

From August 1914 Quassowski took part in the First World War, where he was particularly effective in building fortifications and fortifications and was promoted to major general in 1915 . In 1916 he was appointed President of the Engineering Committee, which also made him President of the Traffic Engineering Examination Commission. In 1918 he rose to lieutenant general. After the end of the war , Quassowski retired from the military in 1919. His special merits lie in the further development of military fortifications, for which he u. a. 1916 was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle II. Class with Oak Leaves and Swords.

family

Since 1889 Quassowski was married to Hermine (Herma) Therese Jung. She was born in southern Brazil and was the daughter of a Kreuznach merchant. The ministerial councilor and genealogist Hans Wolfgang Quassowski (1890–1968) emerged from the marriage. His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

literature

• Johannes Zachau: The East Prussian Quassowski family. In: Old Prussian gender studies. NF, Volume 18 (1970), pp. 150-155.
• Who is it Our contemporaries. 10th edition, Berlin 1935.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Mainz fortress railway
2. ^ Helmut Maier: Research as a weapon: Armaments research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research 1900–1945 / 48. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0109-2 , p. 489.