Ferdinand von Zeuner

Ferdinand Heinrich Hans Albert von Zeuner (born January 24, 1825 in Düben , † April 26, 1888 in Lichtenthal ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He was a son of Karl von Zeuner (1781-1854) and his wife Marie Charlotte Amalie, née Freiin von Oetinger (1786-1869). His father was a Prussian Colonel a. D. , last commander of the 4th Hussar Regiment . The future general of the infantry Barnim von Zeuner (1821-1904) was his older brother.

Military career

Zeuner visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . He was then transferred to the 39th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a second lieutenant on August 9, 1842 . With a patent from October 27, 1842, he was transferred to the 38th Infantry Regiment (6th Reserve Regiment) in Mainz on November 30, 1844 . With this regiment Zeuner took part in the suppression of the revolutionary unrest in the Free City of Frankfurt in September 1848 . In the following year it was used in the course of the suppression of the Baden Revolution in the battles near Greater Saxony , Ginzheim and Gernsbach . From October 1850 to the end of March 1853, Zeuner completed the General War School and from February 1854 to mid-March 1856 served as an adjutant of the 1st Battalion. By March 1858 he was promoted to captain . As such, Zeuner was briefly assigned to the Landwehr Battalion of the 38th Infantry Regiment the following year and on May 8, 1860, he became a company commander in the 19th Combined Infantry Regiment . In this capacity he took part in the battles of Hammelburg , Helmstadt and Roßbrunn in the Main Army in 1866 during the German War .

Awarded the Order of the Crown, IV. Class with Swords, Zeuner was transferred to the 6th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 55 at the end of the war, promoted to major at the end of October 1866 and appointed commander of the 2nd Battalion in Höxter on March 2, 1867 . From February 16, 1869, he was employed in Schwerin as commander of the fusilier battalion in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment 89 . In the course of the war against France , Zeuner led his battalion in the sieges of Metz , Toul and Paris in 1870/71 . For his achievements he was awarded the Iron Cross and the Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross, 2nd class.

On the day of the imperial proclamation , Zeuner was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on October 12, 1872 was appointed commander of the 2nd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 32 in Meiningen . In this position he rose to colonel on March 22, 1873 , was transferred to Rastatt on December 30, 1875 and appointed commander of the 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment stationed there. On September 20, 1877 Zeuner received the Order of the Crown, 2nd class with swords on the ring. When he was promoted to major general on January 14, 1879, he was commander of the 35th Infantry Brigade in Flensburg and in this capacity was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves, on the occasion of the 1881 Order Festival . With the approval of his resignation request and giving him the character of Lieutenant General, he was put up for disposal on May 15, 1883 with the statutory pension .

family

Zeuner had married Berta Marie Ida Eugenie Freiin Roeder von Diersburg (1838-1906) on July 2, 1860 . The marriage remained childless.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 46-47, no. 2737.