Benno Regely

Benno Alexander Ottomar Regely (born July 25, 1825 in Glogau , † April 22, 1888 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general who was an important mediator for geographic and archaeological research from 1875 to 1886.

Life

He was the son of Justice Counselor Benjamin Traugott Regely († 1835) and his wife Karoline Wilhelmine, née Schrötter († 1871).

Regely attended the Catholic high school in his hometown and on April 13, 1845 volunteered in the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army . On December 17, 1846, he was promoted to second lieutenant . As such, worked with a short break from September 28, 1849 to November 20, 1850 as a teacher at the United Divisional School of the V Army Corps . From October 13, 1851, Regely graduated from the General War School for three years and resumed teaching at the division school on February 1, 1855. Apart from a nine-month assignment to the topographical department of the Great General Staff , Regely was employed here until January 1861. On January 22, 1861 he became a captain and company commander in Grenadier Regiment No. 6. During the mobile relationship on the occasion of the German War , Regely was a company commander in the reserve battalion. On February 5, 1867, he was placed à la suite of the regiment and transferred as a teacher to the Hanover War School .

From 1875 to 1882 he was the head of the geographic-statistical department of the Great General Staff and from 1882 to 1886 he was head of the regional survey in Prussia. From 1876 he was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Archaeological Society of Berlin .

During his years with the Prussian General Staff, he accompanied numerous research trips, including Ernst Curtius ' expedition to Asia Minor , which provided valuable insights into the topography of Asia Minor and laid the foundation for the archaeological exploration of many ancient sites (especially Ephesus ). Regely created site plans and sketches during the expedition.

Regely had married Auguste Marie Dorothea Schwerdtfeger (1839–1866) on June 14, 1864. The marriage resulted in their son Arthur (* 1865), who received his doctorate in law in Berlin in 1893 and became a lawyer at the Reichsgericht in 1913

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 486-487, no. 3027.
• Obituary. In: Leopoldina. Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. Issue 24 (1888), p. 12.
• Obituary. In: Geographical Yearbook. Volume 37 (1891), p. 226.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Curtius: Contributions to the history and topography of Asia Minor (Ephesus, Pergamon, Smyrna, Sardis) in connection with the Major Regely , Baurath Adler, Dr. Hirschfeld and Dr. Gelzer, p. 90.