Eduard Ey-Steineck

Eduard Ey-Steineck (born November 2, 1849 in Duderstadt , † August 23, 1931 in Berlin ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

Born the son of a landowner, Ey attended high school in Clausthal , where he graduated from high school in 1867 . From 1867 he studied natural sciences at the Bergakademie there and became a member of Montana, which had recently been founded . In 1869 he did his military service with the train in Hanover. Ey took part in the war against France , in which he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. In the winter of 1870 he fell into French captivity , which he spent on the island of Oléron . Under the influence of his friend August von Mackensen , he gave up his studies and began an officer career in the Prussian Army . In October 1871 Ey was transferred to the regular second lieutenant in the Guard Train Battalion in Berlin and in the same year in the Westphalian Train Battalion No. 7 in Münster . In 1889 he was appointed company commander . In 1899 Ey became major and commander of the East Prussian Train Battalion No. 1 in Königsberg . By 1908 he was promoted to colonel and was most recently director of the 1st Train Directorate in Danzig . On May 17, 1910, Ey was put up for disposition with the statutory pension and the character of major general in approval of his resignation request.

After his departure he settled in Detmold . When the First World War broke out , Ey was re-used as a ZD officer and appointed as the commander of the largest German prisoner-of-war camp in Münster. In 1916 he resigned from the service and moved back to Detmold. He died in Berlin, where he had moved in 1931, and was buried in the local Invalidenfriedhof .

literature

• Hermann Meffert: Eduard Ey-Steineck. In: Clausthaler Montanen-Bote 21. (1932), pp. 2-4.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 62 of May 19, 1910, p. 1486.