Gustav Friedrich von Beyer

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Gustav Friedrich Beyer , von Beyer since 1859 (born February 26, 1812 in Berlin , † December 7, 1889 in Leipzig ) was a Prussian infantry general and Baden Minister of War.

General von Beyer

Life

Beyer joined the Prussian Army in April 1829 , attended the General War School as a secondary lieutenant from 1835 to 1838 , was promoted to prime lieutenant in 1846 and took part in the suppression of the Baden Revolution in 1849 in the position of brigadjutant . Immediately afterwards he was transferred to the General Staff and the following year to the War Ministry, where he became major in 1853 and head of the Central Department in 1855. He held this position for five years and was raised to the nobility in 1859 as evidence of the utmost satisfaction with his services and by the utmost grace . From 1860 Beyer was a colonel in command of the 31st Infantry Regiment . In 1864 he was appointed major general and took over the 32nd Infantry Brigade.

German war

At the outbreak of the War of 1866 Beyer was given command of a combined from the garrisons of the western forts Division totaling about 19,000 men, who on June 16 of Wetzlar made - in - after a Prussian ultimatum Kurhessen marched. On June 19, Beyer took the Hessian capital Kassel without a fight. The Hessian military had moved to Fulda and Hanau . Together with Maximilian Duncker , who was acting as the Prussian civil commissioner , Beyer took over the administration of the Electorate of Hesse and interned the Elector of Hesse, Friedrich Wilhelm .

Beyer's division was part of the later so-called Main Army (initially Western Army) under Vogel von Falckenstein . After the two regiments of Kurhessen were able to move south in good time, he was called in to pursue the troops from Hanover suspected at Göttingen . His division had to advance on foot because the railway lines had been destroyed. Beyer proceeded via Eisenach in the direction of Langensalza , but had no fights with the Hanoverians, who capitulated on June 29, 1866.

After the union with the other two divisions of the Main Army he took in July 1866 at the Main campaign against the army part. On July 4th, parts of his associations caused the Bavarian reserve cavalry under the Prince of Thurn and Taxis to flee after a brief exchange of fire near Hünfeld . At Hammelburg / Kissingen , Beyer forced the Saale crossing on July 10th . In the battle near Werbach , parts of the Beyer division fought against the Baden division and on 25/26. July 1866 before Würzburg with the Bavarians at Helmstadt, Uettingen and Roßbrunn .

Minister of War in Baden

When Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden instructed after the Peace of Prague to completely modernize the Baden division based on the Prussian model, Beyer was transferred to Karlsruhe in 1867 as Prussian military representative . With the consent of the Prussian High Command, he entered the service of Baden on February 18, 1868 as Minister of War and Adjutant General of the Grand Duke.

Franco-German War

In 1870 Beyer led the Baden division in the war against France . His division belonged to the 3rd Army of the Crown Prince and took part in the Battle of Wörth and then went to the siege of Strasbourg under the command of General August von Werder . This association later became the XIV Army Corps .

Shortly after the surrender of Strasbourg on August 13, 1870, Beyer fell seriously ill and was not able to take command of his division again until October 12. On October 30, 1870, after a battle, he occupied Dijon and remained in action against the Vosges Army under Garibaldi until he had to give up command again on December 11 for health reasons.

Before the peace agreement, he took over the war ministry again. When Baden concluded an agreement with Prussia on July 15, 1871, according to which the officers transferred to the Prussian army, Beyer became governor of the fortress Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein . Here he was promoted to general of the infantry in 1873. On March 22, 1877, Beyer was appointed Chief of the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 by Kaiser Wilhelm I in recognition of his services .

In 1880 he retired from military service and died of a heart attack in Leipzig on December 7, 1889.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 127.
  2. ↑ Geoffrey Wawro: The Austro-Prussian War. Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-62951-9 , pp. 75-81.
  3. ^ Department of War History of the Great General Staff Ed .: The campaign of 1866 in Germany. Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1867, pp. 586–588 in the Google book search ; Theodor Fontane : The German War of 1866 . Volume 2: The Campaign in West and Central Germany. Berlin 1871, pp. 82–84 online in the Google book search ; Contribution of the royal Bavarian army to the war of 1866 , edited by Generalquartiermeister-Stabe, Munich 1868, pp. 65-66 online in the Google book search
  4. ↑ s. Löhlein p. 82.
  5. ↑ according to Geoffrey Wawro: The Franco-Prussian War. The German Conquest of France in 1870–1871. Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-521-61743-X , pp. 122ff. the corps under Werder was involved in the fight
  6. ^ According to the general German biography , the Baden division did not take part in the battle
predecessor Office successor
Damian Ludwig Minister of War of the Grand Duchy of Baden
1868–1871 		Military sovereignty handed over to Prussia in 1870
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Gustav Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyer, Gustav Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian General of the Infantry, Baden Minister of War
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1889
Place of death Leipzig