Gottlieb von Thäter

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Binding of the war memory book 1870/71

Gottlieb Josef Thäter , since 1897 Knight von Thäter (born December 27, 1846 in Nuremberg , † September 3, 1912 in Bad Aibling ) was a Bavarian major general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the teacher Johannes Wolfgang Thäter and his wife Antonetta, née Gürsching. After the father's death in 1869, the mother married his friend, the widowed lawyer Adolf von Scheurl .

Military career

Thäter attended the humanistic high school in his hometown and studied law. During his studies in Erlangen he became a member of the Bubenreuth fraternity in the winter semester of 1864/65 . On October 1, 1868, he joined the 6th Jäger Battalion of the Bavarian Army as a one-year volunteer . In the ranks of the 10th Jäger Battalion and the 10th Infantry Regiment "King Ludwig" he took part in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 . He fought at Wörth , Beaumont and Sedan and was in the siege of Paris . From 1873 to 1876 Thäter graduated from the Bavarian War Academy , which awarded him the qualification for the general staff, the higher adjutantage and the subject. In the further course of his military career, Thäter was a colonel from 1897 and in the same year was awarded the Order of the Bavarian Crown for his services . The personal nobility was associated with the award, and after being entered in the class of the Bavarian nobility register, he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Thäter.

From 1899 to 1901 Thäter was then commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment “König” , then became major general and as such commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in Munich. In 1903 he was put up for disposal and then lived mainly at Weiherhaus Castle near Feucht .

There Thäter wrote a book in 1910 with the title Meine Feldzugserinnerungen 1870/71 , which made him known nationwide. He was a member of the Pegnesian Flower Order .

family

In 1880 Thäter married Johanna Dollmann, granddaughter of the Councilor of State Friedrich von Roth and daughter of the law professor Karl Friedrich von Dollmann (1811–1867), the older brother of the Bavarian court architect Georg von Dollmann , who was ennobled in 1859 . The marriage resulted in four daughters. Three of his sons-in-law were well-known public figures. It was about the Bavarian state parliament member and industrialist Ferdinand Steinbeis (1872-1932), the regimental commander and knight of the Military Max Joseph Order Lieutenant Colonel Hermann von Giehrl (1877-1923) and the Lutheran Bishop Wilhelm Stählin (1883-1975) .

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph A. Stumpf:  Scheurl von Defersdorf, Christoph Gottlieb Adolf Freiherr. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 716 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 207.
  3. ↑ Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 590.
  4. ↑ Website on Weiherhaus Castle
  5. ^ Annual report of the Society for the History of the City of Nuremberg, 1906, page 91
  6. ^ Website of the authors of the Pegnese Flower Order ( Memento from July 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ^ Berchtold .:  Dollmann, Karl Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 318-321.
  8. ↑ Data page with photo in the portal Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte
  9. ↑ Hermann von Giehrl in the online version of the edition files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
personal data
SURNAME Thäter, Gottlieb von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thäter, Gottlieb Josef Ritter von (full name); Perpetrator, Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian major general
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1912
Place of death Bad Aibling