Botho von Wussow

Philipp Georg Hans Botho Ernst Ludwig von Wussow (born January 6, 1828 in Koblenz , † January 8, 1891 in Darmstadt ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Botho was a son of the Prussian general of the infantry Philipp von Wussow (1792-1870) and his third wife Georgine, born von Hülsen (1804-1887).

Military career

Wussow attended the Protestant Citizens' School in Koblenz and the cadet houses in Bensberg and Berlin . Then he was hired on May 27, 1845 as a portepeefähnrich in the 1st Guard Regiment on foot of the Prussian Army . The end of June 1846 he was awarded the character as a second lieutenant . After a brief assignment to the combined Guard Reserve Battalion, Wussow was granted the patent for his rank on January 16, 1849 with effect from June 21, 1846 , he was aggregated into the regiment and placed in the budget in mid-August 1849. On January 15, 1850, he was transferred to the 29th Infantry Regiment . From February 1851 to the end of September 1855, Wussow was adjutant of the 1st Battalion. This was followed by commands to the 7th Hussar Regiment and as an adjutant to the General Command of the VIII Army Corps . Left in this command, Wussow was transferred to the 40th Infantry Regiment (4th Reserve Regiment) in November 1858 and to the 24th Infantry Regiment at the end of May 1859 . As a captain , he served in the 10th Infantry Regiment from mid-September 1859 and became company commander in mid-August 1860 . Accompanied by his father, Wussow was ordered to inspect the federal contingents of Hanover and Braunschweig in the autumn of 1863.

During the war against Denmark in 1864 Wussow was used as the commander of Skiwe and after the peace treaty as the commander of Vejle . A little later he was transferred to the railroad stage commander in Schleswig and at Christmas 1864 in the Leib Grenadier Regiment (1st Brandenburg) No. 8 . He led his 2nd company in 1866 during the war against Austria in the battles near Gitschin and Königgrätz . Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords, Wussow rose to major after the war at the end of October 1866 , from November acted as commander of the Saxon teaching battalion, which had met for six months, and was also a commander from November 14th to December 15th, 1866 from Dresden . On April 20, 1867, he was appointed commander of the Fusilier Battalion until he was transferred to Eisenach in the same capacity on September 25, 1867 in the 5th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 94 (Grand Duke of Saxony) . Wussow leads his battalion at the beginning of the war against France in the battle of Weissenburg . In the battle of Wörth he was so badly wounded that he could no longer participate in the further course of the war.

Awarded the Iron Cross , he rose to lieutenant colonel after the Peace of Frankfurt in mid-August 1871 . With promotion to colonel and position à la suite, he was commissioned on March 22, 1873 with the command of the 6th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 55 and on May 23, 1873 he was appointed regimental commander. On December 2, 1873, Wussow received command of the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 and was commanded again in St. Petersburg in June 1874 for the Russian troop exercises near Warsaw and St. Petersburg and in December 1877 on the occasion of the Alexander Festival. With his promotion to major general on November 1, 1879, Wussow was transferred to Darmstadt as commander of the 50th Infantry Brigade (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) . In this position he received the Order of the Order of the Order in January 1881 the Red Eagle Order II. Class with oak leaves and swords on the ring and in September 1883 the Star for the Crown Order II. Class. Under ceremony of the character as a lieutenant general was adjusted Wussow on 4 November 1883 board for disposition . Grand Duke Ludwig IV honored him on November 11, 1883 with the Commander-in-Chief of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous .

family

Wussow married on September 29, 1860 in Posen with Anna von Bernuth (1840-1917), daughter of the Prussian Justice Minister August von Bernuth (1808-1889). The following children were born from the marriage:

• Botho (1861–1862)
• Georg (1863-1883)
• Waldemar (1865–1938), State Minister of Saxony-Altenburg

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 10, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1942], DNB 986919810 , pp. 187-188, no. 3157.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 1903 . Fourth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1902, pp. 944–945.
• Claus von Lettow-Vorbeck: Commemorative sheets on the rank list of the Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1. W. Moeser, Berlin 1899, p. 216.