Guido von Gillhaußen
Guido Pankratius Hermann von Gillhaußen (* May 12, 1870 Esbach ; † May 2, 1918 in Aachen ) was a German war poet , composer and Prussian officer .
Life
Guido von Gillhaußen was the second of three sons of the captain a. D. Benno von Gillhaußen and his wife Helene, née von Witzleben .
Gillhaußen attended the Taubold boys' education institute in Coburg, then the Bensberg cadet institute and the Ernestin secondary school . His military training began on October 1, 1889 as a flag boy in the infantry regiment "Herwarth von Bittenfeld" (1st Westphalian) No. 13 .
On July 16, 1912, Gillhaußen met Franz Kafka in the Rudolf Just convalescent home in Jungborn in the Harz region . In August 1914, Gillhaußen had a vision of the fall of the German Empire .
At the beginning of the First World War , Gillhaußen was a major in the 3rd Guards Regiment on foot . On August 29, 1914, he was seriously wounded in Colonfay in the Battle of St. Quentin . Later, he was commander of the Fusilier - Battalion in the Grenadier Guards Regiment 5th .
He died on April 24, 1918 near Villers-Bretonneux on the Somme (France) in a hospital in Aachen. His gravestone in Berlin's Invalidenfriedhof was restored in 2008 by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation .
Gillhaußen was an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .
Awards
- Red Eagle Order IV class
- Order of the Crown IV class
- Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Order of Philip
- Silver medal for art and science of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order
- Officer of the Star of Romania
- Centenary medal
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Commander of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order with swords
- Lippe War Merit Cross
Works
- The thirteen at Colombey , poem 1913
- Our Kaiser on January 27, 1916 , poem, 1916
- And Italy! , 1915
- Two war songs , 1915
- Hold on, A free word at a serious time from d. Hearts d. German people! , 1915
- Sword sound , war songs, 1918
literature
- Andreas Felmeden: Guido von Gillhaußen (1870-1918) poet, composer, Prussian officer and clairvoyant? , in: Orders and Medals of Honor No. 74, August 2011, pages 182-189 + title page , magazine of the German Society for Ordenskunde eV (DGO eV).
- Claudia Becker: The emperor saws the throne. The poet, clairvoyant and Prussian officer Guido von Gillhaußen , in: Das Magazin , issue 11/1996, pp. 61–63.
- K. Treuwerth: The Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin , 1925, Brunnen-Verlag Karl Winckler, Berlin, pages 59, 60, 107.
- The Invalidenfriedhof, Rescue of a National Monument, Förderverein Invalidenfriedhof eV, L&H Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-928119-83-4 , p. 46.
- Honor roll of the Imperial German nobility 1914–1919 , Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha, p. 76.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der nobeligen Haeuser, 1921, p.246
Web links
- Literature by and about Guido von Gillhaußen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Guido von Gillhaußen on GoogleBooks
- Gillhausen's tombstone, copy and photo
- Gravestone, copy and photo
- Orders and decorations, issue 74 from August 2011 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1903, fourth year p.934
- ↑ Botho Cude: Kafka's world. The Rolex among the Kafka biographies
- ↑ a b c d e f Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 153
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gillhaußen, Guido von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gillhaussen, Guido von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, composer and officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Esbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1918 |
| Place of death | Aachen |