General Command Koenigsberg

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General Command Koenigsberg
Hindenburg Day 1924

The Königsberg General Command was the seat of the 1st Army Corps of the Prussian Army in Königsberg .

The building stood on the Vorderroßgarten (between Roßgärter Markt and Hinterroßgarten). The large garden reached as far as the Königsberg castle pond . Until 1796 the aristocratic palace was the "court of muses of the Keyserlings".

King Friedrich Wilhelm III. acquired it in 1809 as a royal palace . As early as 1814 it became the seat of the General Command and in 1830 also the official residence of the commanding general .

At the Hindenburg Days on August 28, 1924, all military commanders of the Battle of Tannenberg (with the exception of Erich Ludendorff ) came together in the garden of the General Command.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  2. ↑ Siegfried Thomaschki : Memoirs. Part I, p. 3, Hamburg 1962.