Hanno von Dassel

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Hanno von Dassel, recorded by Rudolf Dührkoop in 1905
Hanno von Dassel
Fusilier battalion in the battle of Loigny
Entry of the victorious battalion on June 18, 1871

Hanno Werner Traugott von Dassel (born August 8, 1850 in Stolp , † January 1, 1918 in Aumühle ) was a Prussian officer , most recently a lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Hanno came from the von Dassel patrician family . He was the son of Gustav Adolph von Dassel (born February 24, 1816 in Neu-Belz, † April 17, 1894 in Berlin ), most recently Colonel a. D. and Landstallmeister at the Royal Prussian Principal Stud Trakehnen and his wife Elise, from the Pomeranian noble family Bandemer (born October 1, 1824 in Weitenhagen ; † January 2, 1901 in Bernburg ). His younger brother Johannes also took up the military career and made it to general of the infantry .

Military career

After visiting the cadet house in Potsdam and the main military academy in Berlin Dassel was with the character of a Portepee - ensign , the patent he received only on 10 November, in the 1st Company of the 2nd Hanseatische Infantry Regiment 76th to Hamburg , where he was promoted to second lieutenant on October 10, 1869 . To aide in Lübeck Battalion of Fusiliers , he was appointed on 16 July 1870th

During the Franco-Prussian War he took part in the sieges of Metz , Toul and Paris , the battles at Orléans , Loigny , Beaugency and Cravant , and in the battles at Dreux , La Madeleine-Bouvet , Bellême , Meung and Fréteval . During the war, Dassel was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

On the anniversary of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 by British and Prussian troops under Arthur W. Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , the Lübeck battalion and Dassel moved to the market of the Free and Hanseatic City on June 18, 1871 Lübeck a.

At the beginning of November 1876 Dassel returned to his company , was promoted to prime lieutenant on April 30, 1877 and as such was from November 1, 1879 for three years as adjutant of the Hamburg district command.

Under position à la suite of the Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment No. 73 , Dassel was appointed adjutant of the 29th Infantry Brigade in Cologne on February 12, 1884 . Promoted to captain on March 13, 1884, he was transferred to the Leib Grenadier Regiment (1st Brandenburgsches) No. 8 in Frankfurt (Oder) on December 4, 1884 and appointed chief of the 1st company. Under the promotion on January 27, 1893 birthday of the reigning emperor , in the rank of major , he was his regiment aggregated , on April 12, staff officer aggregated and September 14 again.

The formation of IV (half) battalions was ordered by the AKO on October 2, 1893. As the commander of the 4th battalion of the 1st Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 75 in Bremen , v. Dassel on December 19, 1893. He was relieved of command on March 23, 1895 and on April 1 to that of III. Battalion appointed in Stade . With the function of a regular staff officer, v. Dassel was commissioned on May 22, 1899 and on June 15, 1899, the anniversary of the accession to the throne in the three emperor's year , he was promoted to lieutenant colonel to the regular staff officer of the 75s. As such, he took part in an infantry course at the military shooting school from May 10-22, 1900 .

Altona Imperial Parade
Hotel Kaiserhof in Altona

Entrusted with its leadership, Dassel returned to his regiment on May 18, 1901 à la suite of the 76ers. Promoted to colonel , he became its regimental commander on July 7, the anniversary of the Tilsit Peace Treaty . In the Berlin armory on August 28, 1904, in the presence of the regimental commanders, the new flags of the regiments of the IX. Army Corps was consecrated by nailing the emperor's first blow to the last of the regiment's standard-bearers.

During the imperial maneuver , on the morning of September 5th, the day of the Altona imperial parade, the new flags were handed over by the Corps flag company. So the regiments were able to lead this for the first time in the subsequent parade. The generals , regimental and independent battalion commanders were then ordered to criticize the emperor. In the evening, the parade table took place in the ballroom of the Kaiserhof . As the highlight of this event, at which the mayors of the three Hanseatic cities represented in the corps were also represented, the emperor announced that the regiments in their cities would henceforth be called Regiment Bremen , Regiment Hamburg and Regiment Lübeck .

With the promotion to major general Dassel was appointed commander of the 70th Infantry Brigade in Thorn on April 22, 1905 . To March 22, 1907 (the 110th anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm I ), he was charged with board for disposition made and initially settled in Hamburg.

Around 1910, the von Dassel couple had a villa built for themselves in Aumühle, on the corner of Bismarckallee and Hoffriedeallee. His wife got involved in charities and in 1911 founded a local group of the Fatherland Women's Association , the origin of today's Red Cross in Aumühle. The character of Lieutenant General was conferred by Dassel on June 16, 1913. In 1914 the couple had a mausoleum built at the Aumühler Waldfriedhof for 12,000 marks based on a design by the Hamburg architect Emil Neupert , in which the lieutenant general was buried in 1918 with a large ceremony .

The last descendant of the family Dassel transferred in 1970 the mausoleum to the Aumühler parish , he and his wife were buried the 1990s next to the mausoleum.

family

Dassel married Anna Freiin von Ohlendorff on March 12, 1879 in Hamburg (* May 24, 1861 in Hamburg; † June 17, 1955 in Aumühle), a daughter of Albertus Freiherr von Ohlendorff . The marriage remained childless.

Publications

  • Recollections of Lieutenant General a. D. Hanno v. The same. König Verlag, 1919.

Awards

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Web links

Commons : Hanno von Dassel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Clemens Kroll: List of officers of the Leib Grenadier Regiment King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1st Brandenburg) No. 8. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1899.
  • Harry von Rège : Officer master list of the infantry regiment No. 76. 1902, number 10, p. 10.
  • Gustav von Kortzfleisch : History of the Fusilier Regiment Field Marshal General Prince Albrecht von Preussen-Hannoversches-Nr. 73. 1866-1891. R. Eisenschmidt, 1891.
  • Hermann Konrad Eggers, Traugott Zander: Officer regular roles of the Royal Prussian 1st Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 75. 1866-1902. Homeyer & Meyer, 1902.
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses A IV.

Individual evidence

  1. The “Battle of Loigny” was to become the founding myth of the later Lübeck regiment.
  2. ^ Entry of the victorious troops on June 18, 1871. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter from June 25, 1911
  3. ^ Section: Latest news and telegrams. In: Lübeck advertisements . No. 436, issue of August 29, 1904.
  4. see Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility