Busso von Alvensleben (General)

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Busso von Alvensleben (born January 20, 1928 in Arensdorf (Steinhöfel) , Lebus district ; † October 23, 2009 in Göttingen ) was a brigadier general in the Bundeswehr .

Life

Busso von Alvensleben, a member of the former noble family Alvensleben , was born on January 20, 1928 in Arensdorf, Lebus district, as the eldest son of Udo von Alvensleben (1895–1970) and his wife Gunild, née. von Oertzen (1904–1997) was born - and named after his uncle who died as a pilot in the Richthofen fighter wing during the First World War . After attending school in Lübben , Schlochau and Minden , he came to the Brandenburg Knight Academy in 1943 , but was drafted as an air force helper in January 1944 . After his release in March 1945, he and his family from Falkenberg fled near Fürstenwalde , Lebus district, first to Piesdorf in the province of Saxony and - after this was also to be occupied by the Russians - on to Alt Wallmoden , Goslar district . There he first worked in a sawmill, then completed a two-year agricultural apprenticeship with a final assistant examination in Issum and Bodelschwingh near Dortmund and then (1949–1950) worked as a volunteer at the Besenhausen manor near Göttingen . Then he changed his profession and took on a job as a timber merchant in a timber trading company in Nienburg.

Since July 27, 1952 he was married to Felicitas von Klitzing (* August 2, 1921 in Hanover; † May 19, 2013 in Göttingen), daughter of the Prussian Vice President and District Administrator Dr. jur. Hans-Henning von Klitzing (1885–1964) on Niederzauche , Sprottau district , Silesia and Margarete von Stoesser (1895–1949). She attended schools in Nienburg / Weser , Liegnitz , Oppeln and Heiligengrabe , completed a compulsory household year, trained as an agricultural auditor and worked as an agricultural assistant and estate secretary. In September 1944 she was drafted as an air force helper and experienced the end of the war in a position near Pilsen (now in the Czech Republic). From there she made her way to relatives in Besenhausen near Göttingen. She did an apprenticeship as a tailor and initially worked as a seamstress for the Condor coat factory, then from 1949 to 1952 as a secretary and finally as an employee in the land registry in Nienburg. As a result of the frequent changes of residence, which was due to her husband's profession as an officer, she was no longer employed.

Busso von Alvensleben died on October 23, 2009 in Göttingen from Parkinson's disease , his wife Felicitas died on May 19, 2013 in Göttingen after a short illness of heart failure. Both were buried in the cemetery in Hottenrode near Friedland - Niedergandern (Göttingen district).

Act

In 1956 he joined the army, was already in 1957 Lieutenant 1959 Lieutenant 1961 Captain and 1964 Major . From 1961 to 1964 he completed his general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces and from 1964 to 1965 was commanded for further training at the general staff academy in Fort Leavenworth / USA. After another deployment of troops in Hammelburg , he was transferred from 1967 to 1969 as an auxiliary attaché to the German embassy in Washington and promoted to lieutenant colonel. He then took on a post in the military policy department in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn, then at the NATO embassy in Brussels, became a colonel in 1972 and was military attaché in Washington from 1973 to 1975 . From 1976 he was deputy commander of Panzer Brigade 16 in Reinbek. In 1978 he was promoted to brigadier general and until 1981 was employed as a military attaché at the German embassy in Moscow . His last post was that of a deputy commander of the 7th Panzer Division in Unna . Since 1986 he has been living in retirement in Celle and since 2006 in Göttingen. He was an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter E. Kilian: Politics and the military in Germany. The Federal Presidents and Chancellors and their relationship to the military and the Bundeswehr. Carola Hartmann Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937885-36-0 , p. 444 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Gut Falkenberg [1]
  3. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1976. Volume 1
  4. ^ Announcement from the Ordenskanzlei in the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Alvensleben, Busso from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Arensdorf (Steinhöfel) , Lebus district
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2009
Place of death Goettingen