Gustav Ahlborn

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Gustav Ludwig Ahlborn (1837-1918)

Gustav Ludwig Ahlborn (born June 15, 1837 in Gandersheim , † November 2, 1918 in Hanover , according to other information in Braunschweig or Goslar ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Gustav was a son of the Brunswick Economic Commissioner Georg Ahlborn († 1875) and his wife Minna, née Diedrichs († 1870).

Military career

Ahlborn attended the community school in Gandersheim and subsequently the high schools in Holzminden and Braunschweig . On June 15, 1854, he appeared as a musketeer in the 40th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian army and was promoted to mid-January 1856 second lieutenant . After his transfer to the 28th Infantry Regiment , Ahlborn was commanded for three years for further training at the War Academy in Berlin . During this command he was transferred to the 6th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 68 at the end of February 1861 and promoted to Prime Lieutenant in December 1861 . From the end of November 1865, Ahlborn was commanded to carry out surveying work near Luxembourg . This command ended with the beginning of the German War and Ahlborn was appointed adjutant to the General Command of the VIII Army Corps for the duration of the mobilization . In this capacity he took part in the battle at Hühnerwasser and the battles at Münchengrätz and Königgrätz . Ahlborn received the Order of the Crown, IV class with swords, for his work .

After the war he was commanded from January 15, 1867 to October 9, 1868 as adjutant of the 28th Infantry Brigade in Wesel . Ahlborn was then promoted to captain to chief of the 6th company. At the beginning of the war against France , he came back to the General Command of the VIII Army Corps as a third general staff officer . Ahlborn participated in the battles at Spichern , Gravelotte , Amiens , the Hallue , at Bapaume and Saint-Quentin as well as the sieges of Metz and Péronne . Winner of both classes of the Iron Cross he was just before the peace treaty , leaving in his command of the General Staff of the army aggregated and mid Juuli 1871 in the General Staff added. After a year-long service in the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps, Ahlborn was transferred to the General Staff of the II Army Corps in Stettin on November 13, 1872 and promoted to Major in mid-February 1874 . In mid-January 1876 he was aggregated to the 3rd Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 20 . When he was appointed commander of the fusilier battalion, he returned shortly afterwards on February 12, 1876, to service. This was followed at the end of November 1879 as commander of the 1st battalion in the grenadier regiment "Prince Carl von Prussia" (2nd Brandenburg) No. 12 . In this capacity, Ahlborn rose to lieutenant colonel in mid-September 1879 , was transferred to the 5th Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 48 on February 8, 1883 as commander of the Fusilier Battalion , and was promoted to the regimental staff in mid-November 1883. Promoted to colonel , he returned on July 14, 1885 as a commander in the 6th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 68. On August 10, 1888, he was ordered to represent the commander of the 18th Infantry Brigade in Głogów . With his promotion to major general on September 19, 1888, Ahlborn became the commander of this brigade . In mid-September 1890 he received the Red Eagle Order II. Class with Oak Leaves and was put up for disposition on February 14, 1891 in approval of his resignation request with the character and the statutory pension .

Eduard Engel reports on Ahlborn's suicide in early November 1918, shortly before the end of World War I , in his work 1914–1919. A diary dated November 6, 1918:

“A shocking obituary in a Braunschweigische Zeitung: In deepest sadness and despair over the shame inflicted on his German fatherland, the royal lieutenant general z. D. Gustav Ahlborn, EK 1. and EK 2 1870 71, K.-O. 4. m. Sch. 1866, in Goslar am Harz in his apartment at the foot of the Bismarck statue at the age of 82 voluntarily died. "

Ahlborn's death was also reported in numerous US publications, such as B. in The World Almanac and Book of Facts of 1919:

"The retired Prussian General, Gustav Ahlborn, 82 years old, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, committed suicide at the foot of the Bismarck statue in Brunswick."

In this and other US publications, his suicide is apparently wrongly located in Braunschweig, where it is said to have taken place in public space. Ahlborn's age is always incorrectly given as 82 years.

family

Ahlborn married Franziska von Platen (* 1844), widowed Cohen van Baren, on March 28, 1874 in Koblenz. She was a daughter of the Prussian Colonel Adolf von Platen. The marriage remained childless.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Scheel: Ahlborn, Gustav Ludwig. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 21 .
  2. ↑ Rainer Sammet: "stab in the back". Germany and dealing with the defeat in the First World War (1918–1933). trafo, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89626-306-4 , p. 57.
  3. ↑ Eduard Engel: 1914-1919. A diary. Westermann, Berlin / Braunschweig / Hamburg 1915–1920, Volume 6, p. 2454.
  4. ^ The World Almanac and Book of Facts. Newspaper Enterprise Association, 1919, p. 763.
personal data
SURNAME Ahlborn, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahlborn, Gustav Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Gandersheim
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1918
Place of death Goslar