Christian Amynt love

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Christian Friedrich Hermann Amynt Liebe (born September 13, 1816 in Berlin ; † September 7, 1909 in Dresden ) was a Prussian major general . Like hardly anyone else, it reflects the development of the German Navy in the 19th century and shaped its training system for decades.

Christian Amynt Love (1872)

Life

origin

Christian was a son of the Prussian major Christian Moritz Liebe (1774–1829) and his wife Friederike Wilhelmine, née Boyen (1787–1866). The later Prussian Lieutenant General Oskar Liebe (1823-1909) was his younger brother.

Military career

Love visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . Then he was aggregated on August 8, 1833 as a second lieutenant of the Guard Artillery Brigade of the Prussian Army and in 1834/35 commanded at the United Artillery and Engineering School. After completing this training, Liebe was recruited on October 11, 1835 as an artillery officer with a patent from October 12, 1833. At the beginning of November 1837 he took his leave .

On August 24, 1848 he was employed as a prime lieutenant in the artillery of the Schleswig-Holstein Army . In this capacity, Liebe took part in the battles at Osterby , Kochendorf , Kosel and Missunde during the uprising against Denmark . On May 20, 1849, he was appointed captain and head of the Naval Cadet Institute of the Schleswig-Holstein Navy in Kiel . From January 12, Liebe was on leave and resigned from the Schleswig-Holstein Army on May 31, 1851.

Under transfer of functions of a study director of the Marine Institute teaching in Szczecin was love on October 10, 1851 First Lieutenant with the character as Captain à la suite of Marinierkorps hired. On June 4, 1852, he was presented à la suite of the sea ​​battalion . From August 24, 1852 to June 26, 1854, Liebe was in command on board the sailing frigate Gefion and made trips to West Africa , South and North America , the West Indies , England and the Orient. Then he was commissioned to set up the temporary naval school in Gdansk. After receiving the patent as captain in mid-January 1855 , he came to the Naval Cadet Institute in Berlin on October 13, 1855 for eleven years as a teacher and deputy director .

On April 30, 1866, Liebe was entrusted with the management of the dissolved management of the Naval Cadet Institute until he was finally transferred to the “new” naval school in Kiel on November 1, 1866 . Initially, he worked as a military instructor and was responsible for running the business. On March 26, 1867, he was appointed director. In this position he was promoted to colonel by mid-August 1871 and was also director of the naval academy from August 15, 1872. Love received the character of major general on April 18, 1878. From the end of October 1878 he also acted as President of the Study Commission for the Naval Academy and was awarded the Order of the Crown, 2nd class , on the occasion of the Order's festival in January 1880 . On March 22, 1880 he received the patent as major general. With the award of the Red Eagle Order II. Class with Oak Leaves, Liebe was put up for disposal on November 17, 1881 with the approval of his resignation request with the statutory pension .

family

Liebe married Henriette Amalie Karoline Bennecke (1825-1859) on July 12, 1856 in Berlin. After her untimely death, he married Marie-Luise von Lukowitz (1833–1909) in Berlin on July 28, 1862 . The marriages produced three children.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marine Ordinance Sheet. No. 22 of November 30, 1881, p. 199.
personal data
SURNAME Dear, Christian Amynt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dear, Christian Friedrich Hermann Amynt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1909
Place of death Dresden