Eduard von Valentini

Heinrich Simon Eduard von Valentini (born October 4, 1818 in Eulenburg , Neustettin district , † December 9, 1890 in Kassel ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Eduard was a son of the Prussian captain a. D. and landowner Ludwig von Valentini (1790–1832) and his wife Karoline, née von Lüderitz . His father fought in the Lützow Freikorps during the Wars of Liberation .

Career

After his upbringing in his parents' house, Valentini visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . Subsequently, on August 18, 1836, he was transferred as a second lieutenant to the 14th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army . For further training, he completed the General War School from October 1841 to April 1844 and was then adjutant of the Fusilier Battalion until May 1, 1851 . At the same time Valentini was used from September 1, 1849 to July 1, 1850 as a deputy regimental adjutant and rose in mid-July 1851 to prime lieutenant . In 1854 he was assigned as a company commander to the Landwehr battalion Gnesen and Bromberg. In this capacity he was promoted to captain on February 10, 1855. The following year, Valentini returned to his regular regiment and was appointed company commander in mid-October 1857 . On March 27, 1858 he was transferred to the 28th Infantry Regiment and on July 1, 1860 with promotion to Major in the 3rd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 71 . There he was appointed commander of the fusilier battalion on September 6, 1860 and promoted to lieutenant colonel on June 18, 1865 . In this capacity, Valentini took part in the battle near Langenbruck and the battles near Podol and Münchengrätz in 1866 during the war against Austria . At Königgrätz he was badly wounded in the head by a shrapnel from a shell and slightly wounded in the left hand by a gunshot.

Awarded the Red Eagle Order IV. Class with Swords, Valentini was promoted to colonel on October 30, 1866 after the war and was appointed commander of the newly established Infantry Regiment No. 79 . He led his association in 1870/71 in the war against France in the battles at Vionville , Gravelotte , Noisseville , Beaune-la-Rolande and Le Mans as well as the battles at La Maxe, Malcoy, Maizières, Vendôme , Montoire, la Chartre, Chahsignes and the Siege of Metz . At times he was also from October 23, 1870 until February 18, 1871 and from May 11 to June 6, 1871 leader of the mobile 39th Infantry Brigade . For his behavior he was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross, 2nd class. In position à la suite of his regiment, Valentini was transferred to Königsberg as commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade after the Peace of Frankfurt on June 3, 1871 and promoted to major general in mid-August 1871 . This was followed by a position as commander of the 59th Infantry Brigade in Metz on April 13, 1872 . On 12 March 1874 he took under award of the Red Eagle II. Class with oak leaves and swords on rings his farewell to board and was on 15 December 1874 Pension zur Disposition asked.

He died on December 9, 1890 of a stroke and paralysis in Kassel.

General von Fransecky wrote in his assessment in 1874: “It is difficult for me - in view of the good services which this general rendered in his earlier positions, in view of his honorable wounding and his good qualities both as a soldier and as a person Finally, in view of his wealthless situation with a large family - to have to say that Major General von Valentini can no longer be considered fit for field service and that he can only speak for such a fortress, which is not large in size Makes demands on his physical performance, but its climatic situation takes his special suffering into account. "

family

Valentini married on May 11, 1856 in Bromberg Maria Bahr (1828-1859), a daughter of Major General Wilhelm Theodor Bahr . After her untimely death, he married Marie Gynz von Rekowski (1841-1917), a daughter of Colonel Fedor Julius Leo Gynz von Rekowski (1812-1867) in Erfurt on September 21, 1861 .

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , pp. 146-147, no. 2793.
• Kurt Wenzel: Officer master list of the Royal Prussian Infantry Regiment von Voigt-Rhetz (3rd Hannoversches) No. 79. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1902, pp. 11-12.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolf von Schlüsser : History of the Lützow Freikorps. 1826, p. 57.