Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen

Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen

Friedrich Johann Bernhard Hermann Heinrich Moritz Prince of Saxony-Meiningen (born October 12, 1861 in Meiningen ; † August 23, 1914 near Namur in Belgium ) was a Prince of Saxony-Meiningen and a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Friedrich was a son of Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen (1826–1914) from his second marriage to Feodora (1839–1872), daughter of Prince Ernst I of Hohenlohe-Langenburg . His older brother Bernhard III. was the last Duke of Sachsen-Meiningen from 1914 to 1918.

Education

After he had been raised and educated together with his older brother Ernst , among others by Heinrich von Eggeling , Friedrich studied at the University of Bonn . During his studies he belonged to an exclusive student corporation Corps Borussia Bonn . However, he did not play an active role in the activities of the corporation. He focused on studying. Miraculously, he escaped serious injury while conducting a chemistry experiment while in laboratory class.

Military career

On January 4, 1878, Friedrich was appointed second lieutenant à la suite of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 . Left à la suite, he was transferred to the field artillery regiment No. 15 in Strasbourg on October 16, 1881 as an extra-budgetary second lieutenant . This was followed from January 16, 1883, a service in the 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment and his promotion to Prime Lieutenant on October 13, 1887. From September 1, 1889 to August 31, 1890, Friedrich was in command of the Königs-Ulanen-Regiment (1st Hannoversches) No. 13 . With effect from October 1, 1890, he was transferred to the Hessian Field Artillery Regiment No. 11 . There Friedrich was promoted to captain on January 27, 1891 and appointed chief of the 2nd mounted battery . On October 17, 1893, he was transferred to the General Staff of the Xth Army Corps , leaving him in his position à la suite of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 . Friedrich then worked in the General Staff from February 16 to May 19, 1897 , in the meantime became a major and then came as a department commander in the 2nd Rhenish Field Artillery Regiment No. 23 . This was followed by a command in the Bergisch Field Artillery Regiment No. 59 , until he was finally appointed commander of the 5th Baden Field Artillery Regiment No. 76 on February 16, 1902 . This was followed on December 19, 1907 by his appointment as commander of the 20th Field Artillery Brigade in Hanover .

In approval of his resignation request , Friedrich was put up for disposition on January 20, 1913 with the statutory pension under position à la suite of the 5th Baden Field Artillery Regiment No. 76 . He remained à la suite of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95. He was also continued in the seniority lists of the generals. On February 18, 1913, he was promoted to lieutenant general.

When the First World War broke out , Friedrich was given command of the 39th Reserve Infantry Brigade on August 2, 1914, in accordance with the mobilization regulations. During the battle of Namur near Nalinnes (south of Charleroi ) he was killed by a shrapnel. He was the first fallen Prussian general of this war. His son Ernst was killed three days later near Maubeuge .

He is buried in the Meininger Parkfriedhof . There is a memorial stone for Prince Friedrich in the Tarcienne military cemetery . According to him, which is Friedrichstrasse named district East Meininger.

Princess Adelheid zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, wife of Prince Friedrich

family

Prince Friedrich married on April 24, 1889 in Neudorf Adelheid (1870-1948), daughter of Count Ernst zur Lippe-Biesterfeld and sister of the last Prince of Lippe . The couple had six children:

• Feodora (1890–1972)

⚭ 1910 Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1876–1923)

• Adelheid (1891–1971)

⚭ 1914 Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948)

• Georg (1892–1946), titular duke of Saxony-Meiningen

⚭ 1919 Countess Klara Maria von Korff, known as Schmising-Kerssenbrock (1895–1992)

• Ernst (1895–1914), killed at Maubeuge
• Luise (1899–1985)

⚭ 1936 Freiherr Götz von Wangenheim (1895–1941)

• Bernhard (1901–1984), 1946–1984 titular Duke of Saxony-Meiningen

⚭ 1931–1947 Margot Grössler (1911–1998)

⚭ 1948 Freiin Vera Schäffer von Bernstein (1914–1994)

literature

• Hans Philippi: The Wettins in Saxony and Thuringia. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 1989, ISBN 3-7980-0691-1 .
• Bernhard Post , Dietrich Werner: Ruler at the turn of the century: Wilhelm Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. 1876-1923. Glaux, Jena 2006, ISBN 978-3-931743-94-9 , pp. 145, 153, 162, 486-487.
• Arnold: List of the officers of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 including regular troops, from February 18, 1807. Perhes Verlag, Gotha 1900, pp. 188-189.
• Paul Burg : German princes who died for Germany: Zum Gedächtnis , Leipzig: Xenien-Verl., 1915, pp. 29–42.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich von Sachsen-Meiningen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 10, January 21, 1913, pp. 189-190.
2. ↑ 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. 353.
3. ↑ weltkriegsopfer.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ munzinger.de
5. ↑ weltkriegsopfer.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Tarcienne military cemetery [1]
7. ↑ Vera Baronin Schäffer von Bernstein on thepeerage.com , accessed on July 26, 2015.