Eduard von Steinaecker

Heinrich Helmuth Otto Eduard Bruno Freiherr von Steinaecker (born November 30, 1818 in Ludwigslust , † December 26, 1896 in Charlottenburg ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Eduard was a son of the Prussian Colonel Franz Christian von Steinaecker (1780–1822) and his wife Adelheid, born von Wolff (1787–1875).

Military career

Steinaecker visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . Subsequently, on August 18, 1836, he was transferred to the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as Portepeefähnrich and was promoted to Second Lieutenant by the end of September 1839 . From April 1845 to the beginning of February 1846 Steinaecker was part of the 5th Combined Reserve Battalion and then commanded for a year as an educator at the Wahlstatt Cadet House . The local commander Wilhelm von Chappuis judged him positively, but criticized his sickness. Since this condition was permanent, Steinaecker received no higher command in the course of his long military career.

After being extended for another year, he was assigned to the Liegnitz Knight Academy . With his appointment as regimental adjutant, Steinaecker returned to military service at the beginning of February 1850. When he was mobilized on the occasion of the autumn crisis of 1850 , he was sent to the high command of the mobile army under the command of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia . At the end of January 1851, Steinaecker became his adjutant in the General Government on the Rhine and in Westphalia . In this position he rose to captain in mid-August 1856 , was aggregated to the 7th Infantry Regiment in mid-October 1858 and appointed adjutant to the Prince Regent. On March 22, 1860, he was promoted to major and was appointed personal adjutant to the Prince Regent . After the death of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Wilhelm I's accession to the throne, Steinaecker was appointed as his wing adjutant . In this capacity he was promoted to lieutenant colonel at the end of March 1864 and received the Commander of the Order of Merit of Saint Michael in August 1864 and the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in September 1865 . Retaining his position as a wing adjutant, Steinaecker was given command of the Castle Guard Company on May 20, 1866 and promoted to colonel on June 8, 1866 . In the same year he took during the war against Austria in the General Headquarters of the Battle of Hradec Kralove in part.

After the peace treaty , Steinaecker was awarded the Crown Order II. Class with Swords and at the beginning of December 1866 was additionally appointed a member of the General Order Commission. At the beginning of the war against France promoted to major general and general à la suite of the king, he took part in the 1870 Grand Headquarters in the Battle of Gravelotte and the siege of Paris . For this Steinaecker was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords.

Left as general à la suite of the emperor, he was promoted to lieutenant general on November 4, 1875 with a patent dated October 28, 1875 and released from his position as commander of the castle guard company at the end of January 1876. Two years later he was appointed adjutant general to the emperor. As such, Wilhelm I awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle First Class with Oak Leaves and the Enamel Ribbon of the Order of the Crown on January 1, 1882 . In addition, he appointed him on June 20, 1882 as President of the General Order Commission. Leaving his position as adjutant general, Steinaecker was put up for disposal on April 14, 1884 with the character of general of the infantry with pension . He celebrated his 50th anniversary in service in mid-August 1886 and received the Grand Commander of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollen in recognition of his many years of service . After the death of Wilhelm I, Steinaecker joined his successor Friedrich III as adjutant general . and from December 1888 should be included in the rankings of the army as adjutant general formerly Kaiser Wilhelm I. He died in Charlottenburg and was buried on December 29, 1896 in the old garrison cemetery in Berlin.

family

Steinaecker married Emily Feldt (1838-1897) on November 30, 1860 in Hamburg . The following children were born from the marriage:

• Eduard (* 1861)
• Elisabeth (* 1863) ⚭ Hans von Wrochem , Prussian lieutenant general
• Walther (* 1863), Prussian lieutenant colonel, legal knight of the Order of St. John ⚭ 1918 Christine Adele Hünlingshof (* 1880)

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 8, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 367632837 , pp. 336-339, no. 2632.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser to the year 1919. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1918, p. 940 f.