Felix Hahndorff

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Karl Gustav Felix Hahndorff (born September 8, 1852 in Schwedt / Oder , † December 4, 1920 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

Hahndorff attended grammar school in Neuruppin and the cadet house in Berlin . Subsequently, on October 18, 1871, he was transferred to the 3rd Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 14 of the Prussian Army as a characterized porter. There he was promoted to secondary lieutenant in mid-April 1872 and served as adjutant of the Fusilier Battalion in Stralsund from May 1877 to the end of February 1879 . For a short time, Hahndorff was then assigned to the Pomeranian Pioneer Battalion No. 2. On September 14, 1880 he was transferred to Weißenburg in the 7th Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 60 . Here he rose to prime lieutenant in June 1883 .

From November 25, 1886 to December 12, 1888, Hahndorff was assigned to the Biebrich NCO School as a company officer and was then transferred to the NCO School in Marienwerder while being promoted to captain and in the position of his regiment à la suite as a company commander. This was followed from June 17, 1893 as a company commander in the Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich I." (4th East Prussian) No. 5 in Danzig . On July 20, 1898 Hahn was Dorff as a supernumerary Major the Infantry Regiment. 154 aggregated . When he was appointed commander of the 1st Battalion, he was transferred to the Infantry Regiment "von Borcke" (4th Pommersches) No. 21 in Thorn on February 17, 1900 . From there Hahndorff came on March 16, 1905 as a lieutenant colonel in the staff of the Fusilier Regiment "von Steinmetz" (West Prussian) No. 37 , advanced to colonel on September 11, 1907 and was from November 18, 1907 to April 20, 1911 Commander of the infantry regiment "Hiller von Gärtringen" (4th Posensches) No. 59 in Deutsch-Eylau .

Then Hahndorff was promoted to major general commander of the 73rd Infantry Brigade in Rastenburg . In 1912 the brigade moved its headquarters to Layck . With the approval of his resignation request, he was put up for disposition on April 18, 1913 with the status of lieutenant general with the statutory pension .

During the First World War , Hahndorff was re-used as a zD officer and he acted from September 13, 1914 to December 21, 1916 as commander of the 70th Landwehr Infantry Brigade on the Eastern Front .

Felix Hahndorff died in 1920 at the age of 68 in Berlin-Dahlem and was buried in the local St. Anne's churchyard . The tomb has been preserved.

literature

  • [Max] Kürner: Officer master list of the Royal Prussian Infantry Regiment Margrave Karl (7th Brandenburgisches) No. 60. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1905, pp. 113–114.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 150 of November 23, 1907, p. 3390.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 52 of April 23, 1911, p. 1175.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 51/52 of April 19, 1913, p. 1172.
  4. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 388.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 562.
personal data
SURNAME Hahndorff, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahndorff, Karl Gustav Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwedt / Oder
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1920
Place of death Berlin-Dahlem