Gustav von Conring

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Gustav Ernst Georg von Conring (born October 26, 1825 in Labes , † October 4, 1898 in Hamburg ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Gustav was a son of the landowner Justus von Conring (1792–1880) and his wife Karoline, born von der Lühe (1801–1883). The Prussian major general Enno von Conring (1829–1886) was his younger brother.

Military career

After attending the grammar schools in Stettin and Rostock and the military training institute in Schwerin , Conring joined the Grenadier Guard Battalion of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin troop contingent on June 26, 1845 as a Portepee NCO . A week later he was transferred to the 1st Battalion, where he was promoted to second lieutenant in early November 1845 . At the beginning of April 1849 he returned to the Grenadier Guard Battalion and in the same year took part in the battles at Siedelsbrunn and Ladenburg during the suppression of the Baden Revolution . From the beginning of 1850 he was assigned to the rifle factory in Suhl for half a year for training purposes . On October 29, 1851, he was transferred to the Jäger Battalion as Prime Lieutenant . From October 1855 to April 1856 Conring was assigned to the division school as a supervisory officer and rose to company commander in early December 1858 while being promoted to captain . In this capacity, he participated in 1866 in the Main Army on German war part. After the war, at the end of September 1867, he advanced as a major to the command of the III. Battalion in the 2nd Infantry Regiment and was taken over as such into the Prussian Army on October 10, 1868 .

On March 16, 1869 Conring was with the displacement in the third Ostpreußische Grenadier Regiment. 4 commander of the II. Battalion in Gdansk appointed he in the war against France in 1870/71 at Colombey and Noisseville and before Metz led until he was badly wounded in the battle of Amiens . Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross , he rose to lieutenant colonel after the peace treaty at the end of March 1873 . From January 12, 1875 to March 29, 1881, Conring was in command of the Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment No. 73 . In the meantime promoted to colonel , he was then transferred as major general to the army officers and on May 14, 1881 appointed commander of the 61st Infantry Brigade in Strasbourg . Under awarded the Red Eagle II. Class with oak leaves Conring was on 17 October 1883 board for disposition made.

After his departure, Kaiser Wilhelm II gave him the character of Lieutenant General on November 27, 1895 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Amiens .

family

Conring married Karoline von der Lühe (1830–1906) in Schwerin on April 12, 1853. The following children were born from the marriage:

  • Ida (1855–1928), writer and matron of a convalescent home she founded in Groß Borstel ⚭ 1882 Adolf von Conring (* 1822), Prussian lieutenant colonel ret. D.
  • Hermann (* 1858), Mecklenburg lieutenant colonel a. D., Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John ⚭ 1894 Emmy Voigt (* 1874)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1918. Twelfth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1917, p. 123.
  2. ^ Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon. (= Repertories on the history of German literature: Volume 9), Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 978-3-476-00456-7 , p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Conring, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conring, Gustav Ernst Georg von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Labes
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1898
Place of death Hamburg