Eduard Lettgau

Eduard Jakob Friedrich Lettgau (born February 19, 1819 in Koblenz , † August 29, 1885 ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

Eduard was a son of the Government Secretary Friedrich Lettgau († 1857) and his wife Anna, nee Huhn († 1836).

Military career

Lettgau attended grammar school in Koblenz and joined the 25th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army on November 11, 1836 as a three-year-old volunteer . He was promoted to secondary lieutenant in mid-October 1838 and from September 1, 1843 to September 30, 1847, he was in command as adjutant and accounting officer for the 2nd battalion in the 25th Landwehr Regiment in Jülich . After his return to his main regiment on February 1, 1848, he was appointed adjutant of the 2nd battalion and on January 23, 1851 he was promoted to prime lieutenant . As a company commander, Lettgau was in command from March 29, 1851 to March 1, 1854 to the 2nd Battalion, and in the same capacity from April 1, 1855 to November 1, 1857 to the 1st Battalion in the 25th Landwehr Regiment. In the meantime, Lettgau rose to become a captain and company commander . On May 1, 1860, he was assigned as a company commander to the 25th Combined Infantry Regiment, from which the 5th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 65 was formed on July 1, 1860 . Lettgau was given command of the 5th Company and on June 9, 1864 was promoted to major in command of the 1st Battalion in Cologne . In this position he took part in the battles near Münchengrätz and Königgrätz in 1866 during the war against Austria .

After the war, on October 30, 1866, Lettgau was transferred to the newly established Infantry Regiment No. 88 in Fulda as commander of the 1st Battalion and promoted to lieutenant colonel at the end of March 1868 . During the mobilization on the occasion of the war against France , he was appointed commander of the Landwehr occupation regiment of the Minden Fortress on July 18, 1870 and promoted to colonel on July 26, 1870 . In the course of the war he took part in the battle at Châtillon and served from December 23, 1870 to February 4, 1871 as commandant of Orléans .

Awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class, Lettgau was appointed brigadier of the 9th Gendarmerie Brigade in Kiel after the preliminary peace of Versailles on March 25, 1871 . In this capacity he received the Order of the Red Eagle IV class on the occasion of the festival in January 1872 . After being given the character of major general, Lettgau was put up for disposal on December 15, 1874 with a pension .

General von Schwarzkoppen wrote in his assessment in 1874: “He has proven himself in the position of office, is very hardworking, therefore well-oriented with regard to men and people, and is consistently good at filling his post. He makes a contribution to the practical delimitation of the individual districts and mounts and lives in good agreement with the civil authorities. "

family

Lettgau married Mathilde Klinge (1824–1911) on May 11, 1849 in Düsseldorf. The couple had several children:

• Heinrich Friedrich Oskar (* 1850), Lieutenant Colonel
• Adele (* 1852)

literature

• Otto Zimmer-Vorhaus: 1813/1913. Officer tribe list of the Infantry Regiment von Lützow (1. Rheinisches) No. 25 and his tribe, the Kgl. Pr. Von Lützow Free Corps. Otto Beckmann Verlag, Berlin 1913, p. 318.
• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , Volume 8, p. 472, No. 2704.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst-Adolf von Mansberg: List of officers of the Royal Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 55. P. 103.