Ferdinand von Beck

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Franz Ferdinand Maximilian Constantin Beck , von Beck since 1884 (born June 16, 1850 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † August 20, 1933 there ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

Ferdinand came from a family who came from the Allgäu and started the direct line of roots with the farmer Peter Beck (1657–1752) in Rottach near Immenstadt . He was the son of the surgeon and general practitioner Bernhard von Beck (1821-1894), who was raised to the Baden hereditary nobility in 1884 with subsequent Prussian approval, and his first wife Elise Gaeß (born April 3, 1824 in Freiburg; † 21. April 1858 ibid). His brother was Richard von Beck (1851–1909) , who also had the rank of Lieutenant General, and his half-brother from his father's third marriage was the surgeon Bernhard von Beck (1863–1930).

Like his father, Beck was a knight of the Baden Military Karl Friedrich Order of Merit .

Beck married Bertha Freiin von Stengel on April 26, 1877 in Karlsruhe (born September 28, 1855 in Mannheim , † January 22, 1935 in Freiburg), with whom he had three sons and three daughters. Just a year earlier, his father had married her relatives Helene Freiin von Stengel in his third marriage.

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Noble Houses , part B 1941, page 25, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941.