Erich von Schwartzkoppen

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Erich Hans Bonaventura Emil von Schwartzkoppen (born December 2, 1870 in Hanover ; † September 26, 1919 in Kamenz ) was court marshal of the two Prussian princes Friedrich Heinrich and Friedrich Wilhelm , who later became German emperor Wilhelm II .

Life

origin

He came from the Swartekop family, first mentioned in a document in Braunschweig around 1500 , whose members were raised to the imperial and hereditary-Austrian knightly nobility in 1688 . He was the son of the later Prussian general of the infantry Emil von Schwartzkoppen (1810–1878) and his wife Christiane Marie Hildegard, born von Brederlow (1833–1916) from the House of Tragarth near Merseburg .

Career

Schwartzkoppen was the Prussian chamberlain and captain of the reserve in the Guard Fusilier Regiment , one of the most distinguished Prussian regiments, and the last adjutant of Prince Bernhard von Bülow . He was also court marshal of the two Prussian brothers, Friedrich Heinrich and Friedrich Wilhelm. He was an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

family

Schwartzkoppen married on March 12, 1912 in Breslau Countess Maria von Schweinitz and Krain , Freiin von Kauder (born April 8, 1880 in Breslau; † April 6, 1942 there), the daughter of the Prussian Colonel Guido Graf von Schweinitz and Krain, Freiherr von Kauder, and Marianne von Studnitz. The couple had a daughter Elisabeth Friederike (* 1913).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , p. 339, no. 2325.
  2. ^ Bernhard Fürst von Bülow: Memories. P. 40, Ed .: Franz von Stockhammern, Verlag Ullstein, Berlin 1930 ( excerpt )