Eduard von Fransecky

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General Eduard von Fransecky (1807–1890), Berlin around 1867.
Eduard Friedrich Karl von Fransecky

Eduard Friedrich Karl von Fransecky (original spelling Franscky; born November 16, 1807 in Gedern , † May 21, 1890 in Wiesbaden ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Eduard Friedrich Karl was the son of the Rittmeister a. D. Christian Gottlieb Ernst von Fransecky (1771–1841) and his wife Katharina Charlotte Sophie, née von Preuschen (1780–1852).

Military career

After primary school, Fransecky graduated from the cadet schools in Potsdam and Berlin from 1818 and was then transferred on April 8, 1825 as a second lieutenant to the 16th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army in Düsseldorf . In addition to the practical service, Fransecky also devoted himself to scientific studies, in particular military history . The results of this work were the history of the 16th Infantry Regiment (Münster 1834), later several publications in the supplements to the military weekly , which mainly dealt with the events of the Silesian Army in 1813.

Between 1843 - while being promoted to captain  on April 4, 1844 - and 1857 he carried out war history work for the General Staff in Berlin. During this time Fransecky was often active as a teacher at the General War School. In the Schleswig-Holstein war against Denmark in 1848 he took part in the battles near Schleswig , Översee , Seggelung and Bierning , on April 10, 1849 he was promoted to major . On July 13, 1854 he became lieutenant colonel and the following year chief of the general staff of III. Army Corps appointed. On December 10, 1857 he took command of the 31st Infantry Regiment in Erfurt and on May 22, 1857 he was promoted to colonel . On March 8, 1860 he entered the Oldenburg-Hanseatic service for four years, with the rank of major general (patent on October 18, 1861), he became commander of the Oldenburg infantry regiment .

On November 21, 1864 Fransecky returned to the Prussian army and took over the 7th Division in Magdeburg as major general . Other locations of the division were the surrounding towns of Blankenburg , Burg , Gardelegen , Stendal , Quedlinburg , Halberstadt and Salzwedel . On June 18, 1865 he became lieutenant general and commanded the 7th Division in the war against Austria in 1866 . On September 20, 1866, he was awarded the Pour le Mérite order . This in particular for the services of his troops in the battles of Münchengrätz , Königgrätz and Preßburg . Between 1867 and 1869 he was ordered to inspect the Saxon troops every year.

Handover from Metz. Colonel von Wichmann , General Fransecky, General von Stiehle , Friedrich Karl of Prussia , General Desvaux

On July 10, 1870 Fransecky was promoted to general of the infantry and on July 18, he took over as commanding general of the II Army Corps , which he commanded in the Franco-German War . On August 18, he succeeded in bringing the corps to the battlefield of Gravelotte in a 16-hour forced march in good time as a decisive reserve . He then took part in the enclosure of the fortress of Metz and, after its fall, in the siege of Paris . On December 1, he was given command of all the armed forces assembled between the Seine and Marne . On December 2, he used these to reject the great attempt at breakthrough by General Ducrot near Champigny in the Battle of Villiers . From January 2 to February 1, 1871, Fransecky led his corps, which was assigned to the southern army under Manteuffel , across the Côte d'Or and the Jura , in order to finally force Bourbaki's army over the Swiss border at Pontarlier in 16 battles .

After the armistice, Kaiser Wilhelm I appointed him commanding general of the XV on March 20, 1871 . Army Corps with location Strasbourg . On February 5, 1871, he had already awarded him the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite, and he also received a grant of 150,000 thalers. At the end of October 1879 he was appointed governor of Berlin . He gave up this office in 1882. For health reasons, he submitted his resignation on October 23rd and was put up for disposition on November 23rd, 1882, with the award of the diamonds for the Order of the Black Eagle .

Honors

Fransecky is one of the most highly decorated generals of his time. In addition to the aforementioned Pour le Mérite and the Black Eagle Order, he was the holder of the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order with Oak Leaves and Swords, the Grand Cross of the Württemberg Military Merit Order, the Bavarian Military Merit Order and the Saxon Albrecht Order . Fort I of the Strasbourg fortress was named Fort Fransecky on September 1, 1873. He was also chief of the infantry regiment “Prince Moritz von Anhalt-Dessau” (5th Pomeranian) No. 42 . The city of Magdeburg had a street named after him, Franseckystraße . Berlin also had Franseckystraße in Prenzlauer Berg - until the traces of “Prussian militarism” were erased from the streets in the early GDR years. Franseckystraße was renamed Sredzkistraße after an anti-fascist resistance activist . In his birthplace Gedern, Franseckystraße is still a reminder of the city's famous son.

family

Fransecky married on December 11, 1836 at Liebeneck Castle with his second cousin, Sophie Luise Freiin von Preuschen von und zu Liebenstein (1807-1894), the daughter of the Nassau Higher Appeal Court Vice-President and Member of Parliament August von Preuschen von und zu Liebenstein . The following children were born from the marriage:

Works

  • Memories of the Prussian General of the Infantry Fransecky. 1901.
  • History of the Royal Prussian 16th Infantry Regiment, 1834, digitized

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1877. Seventh and twentieth year, p.644
personal data
SURNAME Fransecky, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fransecky, Eduard Friedrich Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Gedern
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1890
Place of death Wiesbaden