Friedrich von Wilmowsky

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Hermann Paul Friedrich Freiherr von Wilmowsky (born June 26, 1881 in Hanover , † November 4, 1970 in Göttingen ) was a German lieutenant general and cavalry commander as well as knight of honor of the Knights of St. John and owner of the manor .

Life

After Tilo von Wilmowsky, he was the second son of the Upper President and temporary head of the German Reich Chancellery Kurt von Wilmowsky and his wife Auguste, née von Wilke. In contrast to other family members, he did not pursue an administrative, but initially a military career in the Prussian Army . Wilmowsky took part in the First World War and was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords. After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and from 1929 served as commander of the 3rd (Prussian) cavalry regiment in Rathenow . Even during the time of National Socialism, Wilmowsky continued to serve in the army. a. deployed in Hanover with the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and in Potsdam with the military replacement inspection until he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1935. The end of the Second World War also meant the end of his military career.

He spent his twilight years in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, as the Großrössen manor in his possession in the Soviet occupation zone had been expropriated without compensation in the course of the land reform in September 1945.

In 1912 Wilmowsky married Mary von Poseck (1892–1975), daughter of the later general of the cavalry Maximilian von Poseck in Schwedt / Oder . From this marriage two daughters and the son Hans Jürgen were born.

literature

  • Degeners Who is it? 1909.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch, Freiherrliche Häuser. Gotha 1935, p. 612.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Rick : The development of the SED dictatorship in the country: The Liebenwerda and Schweinitz districts in the Soviet occupation zone 1945–1949 (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, edited by Günther Heydemann, vol. 58), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen, 2015, p. 38.
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume 68 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1978, p. 468.
personal data
SURNAME Wilmowsky, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilmowsky, Hermann Paul Friedrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lieutenant general and cavalry commander as well as knight of honor of the Order of St. John
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1970
Place of death Goettingen