Hans von Kessel (General)

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Karl Gustav Berthold Hans von Kessel (born July 5, 1867 in Freiburg in Silesia , Province of Silesia ; † May 25, 1945 in Goslar ) was a Prussian major general and most recently until 1919 director of the General War Office in the War Ministry .

Life

Kessel was the son of a captain who died in France . He joined the Prussian Army in 1885 and was promoted to Second Lieutenant on January 15, 1887 . Continuing his military career, he was in 1897 for the General Staff commanded and later was commander of the First Battalion of the 2nd super-Alsatian Infantry Regiment. 171 before 1914 as a lieutenant colonel in the general staff of the V. Army Corps of Posen added has been. During the First World War he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of this army corps and promoted to Colonel on July 24, 1915 . From April 5 to November 3, 1918, Kessel served as the commander of the 61st Infantry Brigade . He ended the war as major general.

As such, he was deployed as part of the Eastern Border Guard in Silesia . In his last year of service as director of the General War Office, he was also a deputy member of Prussia in the State Committee and a member of the Reich Disciplinary Court .

Kessel had been married to Elisabeth von Salisch (1877–1945) since 1898 . The marriage remained childless.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Genealogical manual of the nobility. Noble houses. A Volume IV, Volume 22 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1960, p. 379.
  2. ↑ a b Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of officers of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps 1917. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1917, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 292.
  4. ^ Kessel, Hans (Karl Gustav Berthold) von. in: files of the Reich Chancellery. Federal Archives.
personal data
SURNAME Kessel, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kessel, Karl Gustav Berthold Hans von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Silesia , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1945
Place of death Goslar