Ernst von Hoiningen

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Ernst Wilhelm Karl Maria Freiherr von Hoiningen, called Huene (born September 23, 1849 in Unkel , † March 11, 1924 in Darmstadt ) was a Prussian infantry general and military attaché .

Life

Ernst came from an aristocratic family, the von Hoiningen , who had lived mainly in Courland and was the son of the Prussian mountain councilor Anselm August Freiherr von Hoiningen called Huene and his wife Marie, née Longard.

Hoiningen joined the 1st Rhenish Pioneer Battalion No. 8 of the Prussian Army in Koblenz on January 10, 1868 , where he was appointed ensign on August 7 . Since September 8, 1870, he was assigned to the engineering inspection in Strasbourg . On September 8, 1870, he was promoted to second lieutenant . From September 29, 1872, he worked at the artillery and engineering school there, and from September 15, 1874 at the engineering inspection in Metz . From 21 March 1876 to the fortress Friedrichsort offset Hoiningen was born on June 13, 1876 first lieutenant added, and on 24 November the fortress garrison to Koblenz. Covered since 1 October 1877 Military Academy in command, he received on 18 April 1882 was promoted to captain and was a staff officer in the General Staff called to Berlin. Since December 13, 1883 he was in the General Staff of III. Army Corps in Berlin. On February 5, 1885, he went to the German embassy in London as a military attaché for a year .

After his return to Berlin, he was appointed adjutant general to Kaiser Wilhelm I on October 15, 1886 . On October 23, 1886 military attaché at the German embassy in Paris , where he was responsible for military relations with France until 1891. As a confidante of the Chief of Staff Alfred von Waldersee , Hoiningen supported him in his fight against Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck from 1887 to 1890 by providing him with reports from Paris that put Bismarck's foreign policy in a bad light. Waldersee submitted these reports - as well as similar reports from his attachés in Saint Petersburg , Vienna and Rome - to the Crown Prince or Emperor in order to take them against his Chancellor and thus ultimately contributed to the overthrow of Bismarck in the spring of 1890.

On October 15, 1888, Hoiningen was promoted to major and, on March 22, 1891, was transferred to the 29th Division in Freiburg im Breisgau as a general staff officer. On October 17, 1893, he became a lieutenant colonel and commander of the 1st Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 132 in Strasbourg. Since August 18, 1894 he was then Chief of the General Staff of the XVI. Army Corps in Metz. On March 22, 1897 Hoiningen was promoted to colonel and on October 19, 1897 took over the Leibgarde Infantry Regiment (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 115 in Darmstadt. On February 24, 1900, he was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the 53rd Infantry Brigade in Ulm . Promoted to Lieutenant General on April 18, 1903 , Hoiningen took over the command of the 30th Division in Strasbourg, replacing Lieutenant General Moßner. At the same time as he was promoted to General of the Infantry on September 11, 1907, he was appointed Commanding General of the XIV Army Corps in Karlsruhe. He stood à la suite of the 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109.

When the First World War broke out, Hoiningen led his XIV Army Corps in the 7th Army in Alsace. He stood with this corps to protect Mulhouse against the French corps group or Armée d'Alsace under General Paul Pau in the field. On August 31, 1914, he was replaced by General Watter and at the end of October 1914 he was made military governor of the III. Reserve Corps appointed fortress city of Antwerp . He remained in this position as a military attachee until the end of the war on November 11, 1918.

Adopted in 1919, Hoiningen retired to Darmstadt, where he died in 1924.

Awards

literature

  • From reports by the Paris military attaché Freiherr von Hoiningen, called Huene to Count Waldersee (1888-1891). in: Berlin monthly magazine. 15, 1937.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Isabel V. Hull : The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm, 1988-1918. 2005.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 91
personal data
SURNAME Hoiningen, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernst Wilhelm Karl Maria Freiherr von Hoiningen, called Huene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry and military attaché
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Uncle
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1924
Place of death Darmstadt