Friedrich von Monts

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Karl Graf von Monts (born December 24, 1801 in Bayreuth , † June 13, 1886 in Dresden ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

He was the son of Felix Anton Ludwig Graf von Monts (born March 30, 1765 in Kleve ; † February 5, 1848 in Glatz ) and his wife There Charlotte Karoline Luise, born von Budberg (born March 27, 1770; † December 9 1848 in Glatz). His father was a Prussian lieutenant colonel a. D. , most recently chief of the garrison company of Infantry Regiment No. 23 . The later Prussian Lieutenant General Karl von Monts (1793–1870) was his brother.

Military career

Monts attended between 3 April 1814, the military academy in Berlin and was on July 5, 1818 as Portepeefähnrich the 1st Guards Regiment walk the Prussian Army transferred. There he was promoted to second lieutenant on March 11, 1819 . For further training he completed the General War School from October 1, 1822 to June 30, 1825 . In the following years, Monts was assigned to the topographical office and the General Staff . With his promotion to captain , he was transferred to the General Staff on March 30, 1836. This was followed from April 17, 1838 to April 11, 1842 an activity in the General Staff of the I. Army Corps and then in the General Staff of the VI. Army Corps . On April 30, 1842 Monts received the character as a major and on November 5, 1842 the patent for it. As such, Monts was transferred to Breslau on March 30, 1844, to the staff of the 11th Infantry Regiment . In 1849 he was given command of the Fusilier Battalion stationed in Brieg and from 1850 he was also President of the Examination Commission and Director of the Division School of the 11th Division . After his promotion to lieutenant colonel, Monts was appointed commander of the 38th Infantry Regiment in Mainz on February 19, 1852 . In this position, promoted to colonel on March 23, 1852 , Monts was then given command of the 17th Infantry Brigade in Glogau on August 14, 1856 and rose to major general on October 15, 1856 . On June 14, 1857, he gave the brigade to his successor Eduard von Müller and was given command of the 29th Infantry Brigade in Cologne . From June 14 to November 18, 1859, Monts was deputized to lead the 8th Division before he was appointed commander of the 13th Division in Munster . Already on January 19, 1860, Monts gave up this division again, was commander of the 14th division and on July 1, 1860 was promoted to lieutenant general.

From August 19, 1862 he was granted a 45-day vacation to France and Italy . Monts also received permission to take part in the exercises of the French troops in the camp of Châlons.

On January 12, 1864, Monts was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle First Class with Oak Leaves. On May 18, 1864, he was entrusted with the management of the director of the War Academy in Berlin and shortly afterwards Monts was appointed director on June 25, 1864. During the mobilization on the occasion of the German War , he acted from May 17, 1866 as Deputy Commanding General of the VI. Army Corps and was given the character of General of the Infantry on September 20, 1866. This was followed by a post as governor of Kassel after the peace treaty from October 30, 1866 . On December 24, 1868 he received the Order of the Crown, 1st class.

In addition to his position as governor of Kassel, Monts was also deputy commanding general of the XI from January 8, 1871, during the war against France . Army Corps . It also fell to him the task of monitoring the French emperor Napoleon III , who was captured near Sedan . , which was now at Wilhelmshöhe Castle .

On June 10, 1871 Monts was with board for disposition made and recorded in nachmaliger recognition Wilhelm I. him on 13 October 1871 the Grand Commander of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern from. He was also an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

family

Monts had married Helene von Mandelsloh (born May 26, 1827 in Dresden; † December 17, 1890 ibid) on July 12, 1844 in Dresden . The daughter Isabella Dorothea Susanne Sylvestra (born December 31, 1849 in Dresden) emerged from the marriage and married the royal Hohenzollern court marshal Kurt von Bachmayr on June 2, 1870 in Kassel .

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , p. 362, No. 1986.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, volume 45, 1872, p.554