Gustav von Eltester

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Gustav von Eltester, ca.1904

Philipp Friedrich Gustav Eltester , von Eltester since 1870 (* December 22, 1822 in Berlin , † September 2, 1904 in Charlottenburg ) was a Prussian major general and inspector of the 1st fortress inspection.

Life

origin

Gustav was a son of the Prussian captain a. D. and later renditions of the Joachimsthalische Schulhauptkasse in Berlin, Wilhelm Eltester (1789–1867) and his wife Karoline Henriette, née Bartholomai (1794–1865).

Career

After attending the Joachimsthalen Gymnasium in Berlin and the Gymnasium in Lissa , Eltester joined the Prussian Army's Guard Pioneer Department as a volunteer on January 1, 1841 . For further training, he completed the United Artillery and Engineering School from October 1841 to August 1842 and from October 1843 to July 1845 . In the meantime, he advanced to the position of aggregated second lieutenant in the 1st engineer inspection. In mid-December 1846 he came to the 1st engineer department and on April 29, 1847 was assigned to the 1st engineer inspection. From the end of March Eltester was adjutant of the 1st pioneer department and on July 1, 1850 he was employed at the fortification in Danzig . There he was promoted to prime lieutenant on June 22, 1852 and reassigned to the guards pioneer department on October 10, 1852. At the same time, Eltester worked from the end of April 1854 as an examiner in the Higher Military Examination Commission and shortly afterwards as a director of the artillery and engineering school. He rose to captain in mid-February 1856 and from October 1857 worked as a teacher at the artillery and engineering school. During the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War , Eltester acted as leader of the replacement company of the Guards Pioneer Battalion.

On July 1, 1860 he was appointed chief of the 3rd Company in the Guards Pioneer Battalion and in the same capacity he took over the 1st Company on April 1, 1861. After being used in the fortification from September 1862 to October 1865 in Koblenz , Eltester became Garrison Construction Director of the I. Army Corps in Königsberg . In the run-up to the German War , he was promoted to major on April 3, 1866 and transferred as commander to Pioneer Battalion No. 4 . During the campaign he took part in the battles near Münchengrätz , Preßburg and Königgrätz and received the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords , on September 20, 1866 .

Eltester was on July 13, 1868 King I. Wilhelm into the hereditary Prussian nobility raised . After mobilization on the occasion of the war against France , he rose to lieutenant colonel at the end of July 1870 and led his battalion at Beaumont , Sedan , Pierrefitte and Épinay as well as before Toul and Paris . Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , he was appointed commander of the newly established Pioneer Battalion No. 15 in Strasbourg after the peace treaty on June 24, 1871 . He received the on January 18th 1872 character as a colonel and awarded the patent was carried to his rank on 12 April 1873 he was appointed inspector stationed also in Strasbourg 3. Pioneer inspection. On May 18, 1876, Eltester became inspector of the 1st fortress inspection in Königsberg and four months later advanced to major general. In approval of his leave request, he was on 13 April 1878 board for disposition made and on the occasion of the religious festival in January 1896, the Order of the Crown awarded II. Class. He died on September 2, 1904 in Charlottenburg and was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Eltester married on October 24, 1852 in Matzkau near Danzig Ida Friederike Röpell, divorced from Heyking in 1849 (1830–1900). The couple had several children:

  • Katharina (* 1854; † young)
  • Dorothea (* 1856) ⚭ 1882 Ernst Graf von Baudissin (1855–1916), German sea ​​captain , a brother of Admiral Friedrich von Baudissin
  • Melitta (* 1857; † young)
  • Horst (* 1865), Prussian Rittmeister a. D.
  • Bernhard Guido (* 1866), Prussian major a. D.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses. 1905. Seventy-eighth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1904, p. 64.
personal data
SURNAME Eltester, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eltester Philipp Friedrich Gustav (full name until 1870); Eltester, Philipp Friedrich Gustav von (full name since 1870)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Major General and Inspector of the 1st Pioneer Inspection
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1904
Place of death Charlottenburg