Carl von Horn

Coat of arms of the Palatinate-Bavarian noble family von Horn

Carl Freiherr von Horn , from 1911 Count von Horn (born February 16, 1847 in Würzburg , † June 5, 1923 in Munich ) was a Bavarian Colonel General and from 1905 to 1912 Minister of War .

Life

He came from an electoral Palatinate Bavarian family who, together with the electoral Palatinate government councilor and land clerk Wilhelm Joseph Horn, were raised to the imperial aristocracy in 1783 and with his son, the electoral Palatinate court judge and land clerk Johann Philipp von Horn, in 1791 to the electoral palatinate baron .

Carl was the grandson of General Wilhelm von Horn and the son of the Bavarian General of the Infantry Karl Freiherr von Horn and his wife Maria Magdalena, née Auernheimer. He attended the pagerie and the humanistic high school , which he graduated with honors.

In 1866 Horn joined the Bavarian Army as a second lieutenant in the infantry and took part in the campaign against Prussia that same year . Promoted to first lieutenant and battalion adjutant during the Franco-Prussian War , he distinguished himself in the battles of the 1st Army Corps in the battle near Villepion and received the Iron Cross 2nd class in recognition of this . After the war, he attended the War Academy from 1871 to 1874 and, after successfully completing his degree, was assigned to the General Staff . Horn was appointed adjutant at the General Command of the I. Army Corps and promoted to captain in 1879 . From 1880 he was adjutant to the Minister of War and from 1885 a consultant in the Ministry of War . In 1886 he was promoted to major and in 1889 to lieutenant colonel . In 1890 Horn became head of department in the General Staff. Two years later, as a colonel , he took over the leadership of the general staff in the 1st Army Corps. In 1896 he was promoted to major general and in 1900 to division commander and lieutenant general.

On April 4, 1905, Horn succeeded Adolph von Asch as Minister of War. He was to keep this position until 1912. During this time he reorganized the Bavarian troop units and their leadership and modernized the armament. In recognition of his achievements, he was appointed Colonel General in 1911, raised to the Bavarian Count status in Munich on March 2, 1911 , and enrolled in the Count's class in the Kingdom of Bavaria on March 6 of that year. Just one year later, on February 16, 1912, he resigned from his post and retired. His successor in the War Ministry was Otto Kress von Kressenstein . However, he continued to remain royal adjutant general and state councilor and stood à la suite of the infantry body regiment .

For his many years of service, Horn was made Knight of the Order of Saint Hubertus . He was the holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit and the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown as well as the Order of Merit of St. Michael I Class.

Horn settled in Munich and died there at the age of 76 on June 5, 1923. He had been married to Marie Freiin von Gienanth since September 26, 1874. After the death of his wife in 1921 he married Walburga Freiin von Aretin.

literature

• Werner K. Blessing : Horn, Karl Graf von. In: Karl Bosl (Ed.): Bosls Bavarian Biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries. Pp. 372–374, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 . ( Digitized )
• Josef Remold: Kgl. Bayer. Colonel General Count v. Horn. In: German Soldier Yearbook 1973. Schild Verlag, Munich 1973.
• Karl Frhr. v. Horn. in: Military weekly paper . No. 70 of June 7, 1910, p. 1673.

Web links

• Entry on Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Horn in Kalliope
• Carl von Horn in the German biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume V, p. 359, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984.
2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume V, p. 360.
3. ↑ Bavarian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of officers of the Royal Bavarian Army. Munich 1918. p. 6.