Georg Ferdinand von Bentheim

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Georg Ferdinand von Bentheim (1807-1884)

Georg Ferdinand von Bentheim (born January 11, 1807 in Soldau ; † October 23, 1884 in Wiesbaden ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the later Prussian major general Wilhelm von Bentheim (1768-1840) and his wife Dorothea Constance, née Holst (1794-1849).

Military career

Bentheim came on April 8, 1824 from the cadet corps Kulm to Emperor Alexander Grenadier Guards Regiment. 1 to Berlin, where he on 14 November 1825 second lieutenant , and on April 18, 1840. First Lieutenant was promoted. With his promotion to captain on April 13, 1847, he was appointed company commander . As the company leader of his original regiment, he took part in the campaign against Denmark in the Elbe Duchies in 1848 . For participating in the battles at Skrydstrup and the raid at Aabenraa, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords. In 1849 he took part in the suppression of the May uprising in Dresden . On May 11, 1852 he was transferred to Koblenz as a major and second in command of the 2nd battalion of the 4th Guards Landwehr Regiment . On June 5, 1856, he was transferred back to the Kaiser Alexander Grenadier Regiment in Berlin. On April 9, 1857 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on May 31, 1859 to colonel , on June 14 of the same year he became commander of the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot .

On December 17, 1863 Bentheim took over the leadership of the 27th Infantry Brigade of the 14th Division at short notice . During the war against Denmark , on January 22, 1864, he took command of the mobile Guard Grenadier Brigade of the Combined Guard Infantry Division. With his troops he participated in various battles on Jutland and in the storming of the Düppeler Schanzen and received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Leopold with war decoration and on June 25, 1864 he was promoted to major general. On December 17, 1864 appointed commander of the 1st Combined Infantry Brigade, he stayed with the Prussian troops in Schleswig.

When the war against Austria broke out in 1866, Bentheim was given the command of the 1st Combined Landwehr Division of the 1st Reserve Army Corps, which followed the main army in the Bohemian theater of war. Apart from a small outpost battle at Aussig , there was no military activity. After returning home, he was appointed commander of the 1st Division in Königsberg on September 17, 1866 , and was promoted to lieutenant general on September 20 . During the war against France , he led the East Prussian division as part of the I. Army Corps across the French border in August and took part in the siege of Metz . During the Battle of Noiseville on August 31st, his brigade was in the main field of attack of the French Army on the Rhine . After the fall of the fortress of Metz , Bentheim's troops moved to the northern theater of war on the Somme and advanced to Rouen . On October 20, 1870, he took over the leadership of the 1st Army Corps in place of von Manteuffel, who had been appointed General Command of the 1st Army. During the war, Bentheim had earned both classes of the Iron Cross and the order Pour le Mérite . In July 1871 he was appointed governor of Metz . With the statutory pension was adjusted Bentheim on March 8, 1873 Presentation of the character as General of Infantry for disposition . At the same time, Wilhelm I awarded him the Order of the Crown, First Class, with the Emeileband of the Order of the Red Eagle with oak leaves and swords on the ring.

He spent the last years of his life in Wiesbaden, where he died of a heart attack.

family

Bentheim married on July 24, 1846 in Königsberg with Adelheid Friederike Gottliebe von Proeck (1825-1904). The marriage resulted in a daughter, who later married the Prussian Lieutenant General Walther von Ingersleben (1859-1940), as well as the sons Oskar (1848-1907) and Alfons.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Volume 5, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632802 , p. 256, no. 1538.
  2. ↑ Werner von Bock: list of the officers of the 2nd Guard Regiment on foot. June 19, 1813– May 15, 1913. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, p. 168.
personal data
SURNAME Bentheim, Georg Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Soldau
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1884
Place of death Wiesbaden