Gustav from the ceiling

Gustav von der Betten, around 12 years old

Grave in the Dresden North Cemetery

Gustav Arnold Joseph Richard von der Betten (born April 27, 1861 in Hanover , † March 2, 1931 in Dresden ) was a Saxon lieutenant general .

Life

family

Gustav was the son of the Saxon Lieutenant General Gideon von der Betten . In 1894 he married Marie von Schönberg in Dresden , with whom he moved into a representative villa on Sidonienstraße in Dresden. Their son Albert fell as a lieutenant in the First World War .

Military career

Blankets embarked on an officer career in the Saxon Army . On November 18, 1911, he was promoted to colonel and, as such, was a member of the Reich Military Court in Berlin . His last position in peace was that of the commander of the 1st Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 100 stationed in Dresden .

With the outbreak of World War I, he was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the 106th Reserve Infantry Brigade. With his large association, he was in service with the 53rd Reserve Division (3rd Royal Saxon) on the Western Front in Flanders . For the personal leadership of a successful attack on May 3, 1915 via Zonnebeke on Westhoek , Betten was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry on May 25, 1915 .

From May 5, 1916, Leuchten was in command of 3rd Division No. 32 . This he commanded in the Battle of the Somme , the subsequent trench warfare and before the Siegfriedstellung . In mid-March 1917, the large association was pulled from the front due to exhaustion. For his achievements on the Somme, on April 8, 1917, blankets were awarded the Commander's Second Class of the Military Order of St. Henry. On April 11, 1917, the division entered the trench warfare in Champagne and participated in the Battle of the Aisne . On July 22, 1918, blankets gave up the divisional command.

literature

Gothaisches Adeliges Taschenbuch, Gotha 1940, p. 210.
Herwart and Tassilo von der Betten: genealogical tables of the von derdecke family , 1994, p. 29.

Individual evidence

↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs-Orden 1736-1918, A Ehrenblatt of the Saxon Army , Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch-Stiftung, Dresden 1937, p. 193.
↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736-1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 82.

personal data
SURNAME	Blankets, Gustav von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blankets, Gustav Arnold Joseph Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1931
Place of death	Dresden

[1] The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs-Orden 1736-1918, A Ehrenblatt of the Saxon Army , Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch-Stiftung, Dresden 1937, p. 193.

[2] The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736-1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 82.