Friedrich von Arnoldi (General, 1818)

Friedrich von Arnoldi (born May 1, 1818 in Reifenberg ; † March 27, 1910 in Dillenburg ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Friedrich was a son of the Countess Wattbott-Bassenheim forest master Gustav von Arnoldi (1786-1836) and his wife Margarethe, née Endres (1784-1869). His grandfather Johannes von Arnoldi was raised to hereditary imperial nobility on June 2, 1803 by Emperor Franz II .

Military career

Arnoldi attended the pedagogy as well as the cadet house in Wiesbaden and on October 14, 1835 was transferred as a non-commissioned officer to the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Nassau Army . By mid-February 1842 he was promoted to first lieutenant , from August 1842 to October 1844 he was in the artillery department and then commanded the cadets of the military school in Wiesbaden. In 1848 Arnoldi took part in the suppression of the Baden Revolution , was promoted to captain in mid-April 1849 and in the same year came into action at Düppel during the war against Denmark . At the end of January 1857, he was transferred to the war department as a consultant. After a command to Vienna to the rifle factory of the arsenal , Arnoldi became a major in the general staff at the high command on April 30, 1859 . In the early summer of 1861 Arnoldi took part in the military conferences in Würzburg as Nassau's representative . With the command to lead the 1st Battalion in the 2nd Infantry Regiment, he returned to the troop service on June 1, 1864 and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on February 7, February 7, 1865 as regimental commander. In this position Arnoldi took part in the battles at Tauberbischofsheim , Gerchsheim and Würzburg as a colonel during the war against Prussia in 1866 .

After the peace treaty and the annexation of Nassau , Arnoldi was taken over into the Prussian Army on November 10, 1866 and, as a colonel, was aggregated with his patent in the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment 39 . On April 11, 1867, he was first ordered to lead the East Prussian Fusilier Regiment No. 33 in Cologne and on August 8, 1867 he was appointed regimental commander. For the duration of the mobilization on the occasion of the war against France , Arnoldi was commander of the 3rd Landwehr Brigade in 1870/71. He took part in the sieges of Metz and Mezières and at the beginning of November 1870 was in command of an expedition to the Argonne . Awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class, Arnoldi was promoted to major general on the day of the imperial proclamation in Versailles .

After the preliminary peace of Versailles he was transferred to the officers of the army on April 4, 1871, and on June 3, 1871 , he was transferred to Stettin as commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade . In this position he received Arnoldi in January 1875 the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves. For health reasons, he took his leave and was on July 6, 1875 award of the character as a lieutenant general with board for disposition made. On August 13, 1897, his former sovereign , the Grand Duke of Luxembourg , paid tribute to him by being awarded the Grand Cross of the Military and Civil Service Order of Adolph von Nassau .

family

Arnoldi married Wilhelmine Fischer (1818–1898) in Biebrich on October 2, 1845. The following children were born from the marriage:

• Gustav (* 1846), Prussian captain ⚭ Annie Moir
• Elisabeth (* 1847) ⚭ Otto Cruse († 1879), Prussian captain
• Friedrich (1849–1907), Prussian Lieutenant General ⚭ Bertha Hagen
• Karoline (* 1852)

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 8, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 367632837 , pp. 239-240, no. 2576.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1908. Second year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1907, p. 16

Web links

• Arnoldi, Friedrich von. Index entry: German biography . [29. December 2018].