Bernhard von Eggeling

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Bernhard Friedrich von Eggeling (born July 14, 1872 Meiningen; † August 29, 1949 Blackrock near Dublin) was a German officer and military attaché .

Life

Bernhard Friedrich Otto von Eggeling was the son of the curator of the University of Jena , Johann August Ernst Heinrich von Eggeling (1838–1911) and Charlotte Marie Gertrude Westermann (1844–1919). He joined the Prussian Army around 1890 , in which he finally made it to the position of colonel and general staff officer . In 1912 he was sent to the German embassy in Saint Petersburg as a military attaché . As in rank second highest employee of the embassy after the ambassador Friedrich Pourtalès incumbent Eggeling, who also spoke Russian, the care of the military-political relations of the German Reich toRussian Empire .

Eggeling's activity in Petersburg became politically explosive during the July crisis of 1914, which ultimately led to the outbreak of the First World War . In the crucial weeks of the July crisis, Eggeling observed, among other things, the visit of French President Raymond Poincaré to Petersburg and the Russian mobilization at the end of the year. Eggeling described these processes in 1919 in a brochure that was widely read at the time under the title Russian Mobilization and the Outbreak of War .

During the war Eggeling was deployed, among other things, to the theater of war in the Middle East, where he worked as head of the staff of the German military missions in the Ottoman Empire .

In 1923 he married the widow Annemarie Helene Katharina Wernher, who had a daughter from his first marriage.

Fonts

  • Russian mobilization and the outbreak of war. 1919.
  • The fates of the Ural iron industry. 1923.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Officer Association (Ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1926, p. 10.
  2. ^ Jehuda Lothar Wallach : Germany and the Middle East, 1835-1939 , 1975, p. 40.
  3. ^ Eggeling: Eggeling family. Retrieved June 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Paul Wernher. Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies, accessed on June 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Eggeling, Bernhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggeling, Bernhard Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and military attaché
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1872
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1949