Heinrich Adolf von Zastrow

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General von Zastrow

Alexander Friedrich Adolf Heinrich von Zastrow (born August 11, 1801 in Danzig , † August 12, 1875 in Schöneberg ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Adolf Heinrich came from the Pomeranian noble family Zastrow . He was the son of the Prussian colonel and commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade Alexander Heinrich Gebhard von Zastrow (1768–1815) and his wife Karoline Albertine Juliane, née von Blankenstein (1758–1868).

Military career

Zastrow attended the cadet school in Berlin from September 8, 1815 . As a non-commissioned officer he was from April 15 to October 10, 1819 the Leibpage of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Then Zastrow was hired as a second lieutenant in the 1st Guards Regiment on foot and commanded from 1823 to 1825 for further training at the General War School. It was here that he discovered his particular interest in fortress construction , which was reflected in the 1828 Handbook of the Most Excellent Systems and Patterns of Fortification Art. On April 17, 1834, he was promoted to lieutenant prime minister.

Zastrow family grave in the Invalidenfriedhof

In 1839 he was commanded for three years after Turkey , in 1848 as a major in the Schleswig-Holstein Army . Returned to Prussia in 1850, he became battalion commander in the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm IV." (1st Pomeranian) No. 2 , in 1852 commander of Stralsund , later as colonel commander of the infantry regiment "von Goeben" (2nd Rheinisches) No. 28 , then commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade , in 1863 as Lieutenant General commander of the 11th Division .

At the head of this division in 1866, he contributed a lot to the decision of Königgrätz in the German War , and then became the commanding general of the VII Army Corps , which he led in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 at Spichern , Gravelotte , Metz and Burgundy . After the fall of the fortress of Metz, he besieged Thionville , Montmédy and Mezières . At the end of the campaign, he and his corps were called in to support the Southern Army under General Edwin von Manteuffel . For his services in this war he was awarded the oak leaves for the Pour le Mérite on February 5, 1871 and received an endowment of 100,000 thalers .

After the war, Zastrow became honorary chief of the 1st Silesian Grenadier Regiment No. 10 . On October 5, 1871, he was released from his position as commanding general and appointed to the National Defense Commission with a transfer to officers of the army . Left as a member of the commission, he was put up for disposal on December 27, 1873 with a pension .

He died in Schöneberg and was buried on August 18, 1875 in the Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Zastrow had married Marie Ottilie Israel, widowed Countess von Rantzau (1817–1900) on June 23, 1856 in Stralsund . The marriage remained childless.

Works

  • History of permanent fortification. 3rd edition Leipzig 1854.
  • Carnot and the newer fortification. Berlin 1840.
  • as translation: Traité de l'attaque des places et de la défense. Berlin 1841.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To honor Zastrow's memory, Wilhelm I added the name Fort Zastrow to Fort les Bolles off Metz on September 1, 1873 .
  2. ↑ Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsgb.): Year book of the German nobility . Berlin 1896, Volume 1, p. 975.
personal data
SURNAME Zastrow, Heinrich Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zastrow, Alexander Friedrich Adolf Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1875
Place of death Schöneberg