Georg von Schlieben (General)

Georg Aurel Eugen von Schlieben (born October 9, 1843 in Waldheim , † July 15, 1906 in Dresden ) was a Saxon lieutenant general and military representative for the Kingdom of Saxony in Berlin and authorized representative of the Federal Council of the German Empire .

Life

family

Georg von Schlieben's grave in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

Schlieben comes from the Oder in the Zagelsdorf line of the Lusatian noble family von Schlieben . The poet Gertrud von Schlieben comes from his marriage to a Scottish noblewoman .

Military career

After attending the Dresden Artillery School from 1859, Schlieben joined the Saxon Army in 1863 and participated as a lieutenant in the 1866 war against Prussia and in 1870/71 in the war against France . Promoted to Prime Lieutenant in the Field Artillery Regiment in 1867 , he was sent to the War Academy in Berlin , where he completed the three-year course. In 1873 he was transferred to the General Staff and in 1878 as a department head in the Saxon War Ministry and promoted to major . As the successor to Paul von der Planitz , who was ordered back to Dresden, he finally took over on July 12, 1883, the post of military plenipotentiary in Berlin and the plenipotentiary to the Federal Council for the Kingdom of Saxony. In this capacity he rose to lieutenant colonel in 1887 and became a colonel in 1889 . After Schlieben had become major general in autumn 1892 , Lieutenant Colonel Paul Vitzthum von Eckstädt , who had already been appointed as a deputy, took over the official business on March 24, 1893. Schlieben returned to Dresden and became the commander of the 1st Field Artillery Brigade No. 12 until he was finally put up for disposition as Lieutenant General on March 31, 1897 .

He died in Dresden in 1906 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

Honors

Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit

Commander 1st class of the Albrecht Order

Iron Cross (1870) 2nd class

Star for the Order of the Red Eagle II class

Star for the Order of the Crown, 2nd class

Officer's Cross of the Bavarian Order of Military Merit

Commander's Cross 2nd class of the Order of Frederick

Cross of Honor 2nd class of the Lippe House Order

Grand Cross of the Franz Joseph Order

literature

Heinrich von Poschinger : Prince Bismarck and the Federal Council. Volume 5, p. 137. ( digitized version )
Jan Hoffmann: The Saxon Army in the German Reich 1871 to 1918. Dissertation, Potsdam 2007 ( digital copy; PDF; 1.29 MB )

Individual evidence

↑ Ranking list of the Royal Saxon Army for the year 1869.
↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 500.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Saxon War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Saxon Army for the year 1906. Department for personal affairs. C. Heinrich, Dresden 1906. p. 472.

personal data
SURNAME	Close, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schlieben, Georg Aurel Eugen von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon lieutenant general, military plenipotentiary in Berlin and plenipotentiary to the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waldheim
DATE OF DEATH	July 15, 1906
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Ranking list of the Royal Saxon Army for the year 1869.

[2] Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 500.

[Rangliste1906-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Saxon War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Saxon Army for the year 1906. Department for personal affairs. C. Heinrich, Dresden 1906. p. 472.