Eugen von Petzel

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Viktor Eugen Petzel , since 1913 von Petzel (born August 14, 1853 in Dalne near Samter , † June 26, 1915 in Dresden ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Eugen was a son of the former landlord in Dalne Theodor Petzel (1812-1892) and his wife Dorothea, née Foerster (1822-1908).

Military career

Towards the end of the war against France on February 7, 1871, Petzel joined the replacement battalion of the 1st Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 46 of the Prussian Army as a volunteer . By mid-July 1882 he was promoted to prime lieutenant and from mid-April 1885 was commanded to serve with the Great General Staff . With release from this command and position à la suite of the 4th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 17 , he was transferred to the side budget of the Great General Staff on March 22, 1887. In this position promoted to captain at the beginning of April 1887 , Petzel was aggregated to the General Staff of the Army on March 22, 1888 under transfer to the General Staff . From June 23, 1888, Petzel was assigned to the General Staff of the 1st Guard Division for the duration of the autumn exercises and was assigned to the General Staff of the Army on August 2, 1888, leaving the General Staff in place. On October 21, 1889, he was transferred to the General Staff of the 2nd Division in Danzig and on March 24, 1890, he was transferred to the General Staff of the newly formed 36th Division with effect from April 1, 1890 . With the appointment as chief of the 8th company in the fusilier regiment "Queen" (Schleswig-Holsteinisches) No. 86 he resigned on March 24, 1890 for one year in the troop service and was then transferred to the general staff of the 36th division again reassigned to the Army General Staff. There Petzel rose to the superfluous major at the end of May 1891 . On August 6, 1892, he was transferred to the open staff officer position of the General Staff and in mid-October 1894 transferred to the General Staff of the Königsberg Command. A year later he was transferred to the general command of the 1st Army Corps . This was followed on May 20, 1897, his transfer to Posen as commander of the III. Battalion in the Infantry Regiment "Graf Kirchbach" (1st Lower Silesian) No. 46. Commissioned with the functions of the regular staff officer, Petzel was transferred to the infantry regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 116 in Giessen on November 29, 1898 , and on January 27, 1899, promoted to lieutenant colonel to staff officer.

Map "March from Tientsin to Pau-ting-fu"

Petzel resigned from the army on July 9, 1900 to take part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China. He then joined the staff of the 3rd East Asian Infantry Regiment , was on December 29, 1900 initially commissioned with the leadership of the 5th East Asian Infantry Regiment and on April 18, 1901 was promoted to colonel commander of this regiment. At the end of March, he and a detachment met around 1,000 boxers on the northern edge of Lake Tahotien and had stolen a gun and 19 vehicles with ammunition from them after a battle . He also took part in the international expedition to Pau-ting-fu and in a number of other skirmishes. Petzel resigned from the East Asian Expeditionary Corps on October 24, 1901, was transferred as an aggregate to the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 and on February 18, 1902, was appointed regimental commander. On February 11, 1903, he resigned from the army again and was employed in the East Asian Occupation Brigade as commander of the 2nd East Asian Infantry Regiment . Petzel was promoted to major general on November 20, 1903 and at the same time appointed commander of the 2nd East Asian Occupation Brigade. After three years in China, he returned to Germany in mid-October 1906, was initially transferred to the army officers under instructions from his residence in Berlin and was appointed commander of the 68th Infantry Brigade in Metz on November 17, 1906 . In this capacity he received the crown medal, second class with star, on the occasion of the festival in January 1908 . As Lieutenant General Petzel was from April 4, 1908 to March 2, 1910 commander of the 33rd Division, which was also stationed in Metz . Subsequently, in approval of his resignation request, he was put up for disposition with the statutory pension .

Kaiser Wilhelm II raised Petzel to the hereditary Prussian nobility on June 16, 1913 .

During the First World War was Petzel according to its mobilization determination reused as z D officer and served as commander of the 50th Reserve Division , which he on the Eastern Front u. a. commanded in the battle of Łódź . He died on June 26, 1915 in Dresden.

family

Petzel married Helene Freiin von Kittlitz (* 1858) on September 25, 1879 in Dresden. The following children were born from the marriage:

  • Magarete (* 1880) ⚭ 1905 Hans Kropatscheck, retired Prussian lieutenant . D.
  • Elisabeth (* 1883) ⚭ 1906 Heinrich Betz, German consul in Tsinansu, China
  • Rolf (* 1885)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Handbook of letter noble houses. 1915. Ninth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1914, p. 725.
  2. ↑ Walther Hubatsch (ed.), Emil von Lessel : Böhmen, Frankreich, China. 1866-1901. Memories of a Prussian officer. Studies on the history of Prussia, Volume 34, Grote, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-7745-6455-8 , p. 262.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 9 of January 21, 1908, p. 182.
personal data
SURNAME Petzel, Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petzel, Viktor Eugen von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalne at Samter
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1915
Place of death Dresden