Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein

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Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein

Eduard Ernst Friedrich Hannibal Vogel von Fal (c) kenstein (born January 5, 1797 in Breslau ; † April 6, 1885 at Dolzig Castle in the Sorau district (Lausitz) ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Eduard was the son of Hannibal Vogel von Falckenstein (born March 25, 1750 in Münsterberg ; † September 25, 1808 in Cosel ), a Prussian major and commander of a national battalion in Silesia and a knight of the order Pour le Mérite , and his wife Charlotte Helene , née Graetz (* 1769 in Breslau; † November 5, 1835 there).

Military career

Vogel von Falckenstein attended high school in his hometown and on March 14, 1813, joined the 1st West Prussian Grenadier Battalion of the Prussian Army as a volunteer hunter . In the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon in 1813/14, he took part in the battles at Großgörschen , Bautzen , Laon and the Katzbach, as well as at Montmirail and Château-Thierry . For his achievements with Bischofswerda he received the Iron Cross II. Class and for Thionville the Russian Order of St. George V Class.

After he was promoted to major in 1841 , he was wounded in a street fight during the March Revolution in Berlin in 1848 . He then fought in Holstein , became commander of the Guard Rifle Battalion on August 24, 1848, and in May 1850 became Chief of Staff of the III. Army Corps appointed. In 1851 he was promoted to colonel , in 1855 to major general in command of the 2nd Guard Infantry Brigade. From 1856 to 1858 he was director of the military economics department. In 1858 he became lieutenant general and took over first the 5th Division , then the 2nd Guard Division .

During the German-Danish War, Vogel von Falckenstein was chief of the general staff of the allied Austro-Hungarian and Prussian troops and commanding general of a Prussian army corps under Field Marshal Friedrich von Wrangel since December 1863 . On April 22nd, 1864, Vogel von Falckenstein was awarded the order Pour le Mérite and on April 30th was appointed Governor of Jutland . Between November 21, 1864 and October 29, 1866 he was given general command of the VII Army Corps , and in 1865 he was promoted to General of the Infantry.

When the German war broke out , he occupied Hanover at the end of June 1866 and forced the Hanoverian army to surrender on June 29 at Langensalza . At the beginning of July he became commander in chief of the Prussian Main Army. He defeated the main campaign in a series of battles the South German forces and moved to July 16, Frankfurt a. There he made many enemies because of his rude demeanor. On July 20, he was transferred to Bohemia as Governor General due to differences with the Grand Headquarters and had to surrender his command to General von Manteuffel . For his services in this war he received a considerable amount of money .

After the war, on October 30, 1866, he became the commanding general of the 1st Army Corps . In 1867 he was elected as a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation by the Reichstag constituency of Königsberg 3 administrative district (Königsberg-Stadt) and in this capacity had also been a member of the customs parliament since 1868 . On August 3, 1868, Vogel von Falckenstein gave up his last command and was transferred to the army officers.

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, Vogel von Falckenstein was Governor General of the German coastal regions and resided in Hanover. In this capacity he organized the coastal defense and created a voluntary sea defense . In 1873 he retired. In 1889 the Infantry Regiment No. 56 in Wesel received its name.

family

Vogel von Falckenstein married Luise Wilhelmine Julie Gärtner on April 9, 1829 in Treuenbrietzen (born January 21, 1813 in Berlin ; † August 24, 1892 at Dolzig Castle ). The following children were born from the marriage:

  • Marie (born January 10, 1830 in Berlin) ⚭ Theodor Friedrich Bernhard Trützschler von Falkenstein , Prussian lieutenant colonel
  • Emma Luise Amalie (born July 25, 1831 in Berlin; † March 28, 1832)
  • Kuno Eduard August Hannibal (born February 21, 1833 in Berlin; † March 2, 1833)
  • Kunibert Eduard August Hannibal (born November 20, 1834 in Berlin - † June 21, 1835)
  • Eduard August Hannibal Eugen Melchior Eckbert (born January 7, 1837 in Berlin; † October 1, 1904 in Strasbourg ), last in Austrian service ⚭ 1867 Paula von Puttkamer (born March 5, 1846)
  • Maximilian Eduard August Hannibal Sigismund Kunz (1839–1917), Prussian general of the infantry, chief of the engineer and pioneer corps ⚭ Maria von Stolzenberg (born September 15, 1842)
  • Luise Henriette Helene Gertrud (* May 2, 1843 in Berlin) ⚭ 1861 Max Georg Friedrich Ernst Wilhelm von Simon († August 5, 1888), major ret. D.

Namesake

Falckenstein is the namesake of the Falckenstein Fort, which was built after 1871 and razed after 1919 due to the Treaty of Versailles . This fort was built to protect the Friedrichsort Fortress . This fortress was built on the narrowest part of the Kiel Fjord and protected the city of Kiel from attacks by the sea. Over time, the name of the fort carried over to the beach section there, in 1930 the renaming of the local "Falckensteiner Chaussee" to "Falckensteiner Strand" took place, the Falckensteiner Straße that still exists today originally led from the Friedrichsort jetty in a northerly direction to the aforementioned Chaussee to Fort Falckenstein, after which it was probably named around 1900. The Falckensteiner Strand is the largest beach in Kiel.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Roet de Rouet: Frankfurt am Main as Prussian garrison from 1866 to 1914. Frankfurt am Main 2016, p. 36ff.
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 338, short biography p. 481.
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 2; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Publishing house Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Hannelore Pieper-Wöhlk, Dieter Wöhlk: "Pries and Friedrichsort: two districts of Kiel in transition", pages 37 to 41, at Google Books
  5. ↑ Kiel Street Lexicon
  6. ^ Messages from the Society of Kiel City History S29, page 566, Kiel Street Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Vogel von Falckenstein, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel von Falckenstein, Eduard Ernst Friedrich Hannibal (full name); Vogel von Falkenstein, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1885
Place of death Dolzig Castle, Sorau District (Lausitz)