Hans Dechend

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Hans Walter Eckhardt Dechend (born July 21, 1849 in Potsdam , † June 30, 1932 in Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge ) was a Prussian major and military writer .

Life

After attending the St. Maria Magdalena high school in Breslau , he joined the 3rd Guard Grenadier Regiment Queen Elisabeth of the Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer on July 27, 1870 . With this he took part in the Franco-Prussian War in the battles of Gravelotte and Saint Privat and Sedan , the defensive and outpost battles of Le Bourget , as well as the enclosure and siege of Paris .

After his year, Dechend was transferred to the Hessian Fusilier Regiment No. 80 as an avantageur with Portepee on July 28, 1871 . Here he was on 16 November for the Ensign and on 11 May 1872 to second lieutenant promoted . From October 1, 1878 to August 1, 1881 he attended the War Academy . He was promoted to Prime Lieutenant on September 18, 1867 and was as such from October 1, 1885 to October 1, 1887 adjutant in the Landwehr district of Attendorn . According to sources in the Marburg archive , he published several articles on the history of the campaign of 1806 in 1887. Dechend was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Austrian Order of Franz Joseph in May 1888 for his scientific work on the Austrian General Staff Works on the campaigns of Prince Eugene of Savoy . The name of his regiment changed on January 27, 1889 to "Fusilier Regiment" von Gersdorff "(Hessian) No. 80". He was promoted to captain on March 22, 1889 and aggregated to the regiment .

When he was appointed head of one of his companies , Dechend was transferred to the infantry regiment “von Wittich” (3rd Hessian) No. 83 in Kassel on May 22, 1889 . à la suite of the regiment he was assigned from November 14, 1893 in the secondary budget of the Great General Staff. His studies from the history of war appeared in 1895 under the title The warlike ruthlessness . He was raised to the rank of staff officer there on April 18, 1896. His meeting at Bar sur Aube was published in 1897 as a supplement to the military weekly . The for Major related patent he should, however, only received on 27 January 1898th From the side budget he was assigned to the General Staff on April 1, 1898. On October 17, 1899 he was transferred to the 3rd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 50 in Rawitsch and appointed commander of the 1st battalion.

In approval of his resignation request, Dechend was put up for disposition on August 18, 1900 with the statutory pension and the right to wear the uniform of the fusilier regiment "von Gersdorff" (Kurhessisches) No. 80 . As a zD officer, Dechend was in command of the Landwehr district of Hagen from January 18, 1901 to May 19, 1903 .

As a co-author of Julius von Pflugk-Harttung , archivist of the Secret State Archives , he published Napoleon I in 1901 , in 1906 in Strength and Life in the Fatherland and in 1912 in The History of the Wars of Liberation .

The regiment gave the captain Friedrich von Lettow-Vorbeck the order to rewrite the regimental history. The history of 1901 was used as the basis for the history of the Fusilier Regiment “von Gersdorff” (Kurhessisches) No. 80 and its regular regiment, the Kurhessischer Leibgarde-Regiment, published from 1631 to 1913 in 1913. Dechend therefore also appears here as an author.

Fonts

  • History of the Fusilier Regiment von Gersdorff (Hess.) No. 80: and his main regiment of the Electoral Hessian Life Guard Regiment from 1632 to 1900. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1901.
  • History of the Fusilier Regiment von Gersdorff (Kurhessisches). Elwert'sche University and Publishing Bookstore, Berlin 1913.

literature

  • Herrmann von Loßberg: Officer master list of the Fusilier Regiment von Gersdorff (Kurhessischen) No. 80: 1813-1913. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1913, p. 81.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains No. 196/1932.
  2. ↑ Festschrift for the 250th anniversary of the high school of St. Maria Magdalena in Breslau on April 30, 1893
  3. ^ Publishing house of the KUK General Staff: Campaigns of Prince Eugene of Savoy. (History of the fighting in Austria)
  4. ↑ Hans Dechend: History of the Fusilier Regiment von Gersdorff (Hess.) No. 80: and his regular regiment of the Kurhessischen Leibgarde-Regiment from 1632 to 1900. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1901, S. 587.
  5. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 77 of August 22, 1900, p. 1866.
personal data
SURNAME Dechend, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dechend, Hans Walter Eckhardt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major and military writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1932
Place of death Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains