Heinrich von Igel

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Johann Heinrich Igel , from Igel since 1888 , (born August 13, 1839 in Trier , † September 9, 1918 in Berlin ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

He was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Igel († 1867) and his wife Anna Marie, née Schmitz († 1886). His father was a Prussian Colonel a. D. , last in the 8th Artillery Regiment .

Military career

Igel received his education in his parents' home and attended high schools in Trier and Koblenz . On October 1, 1857, he joined the 30th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as an avantageur . Here Igel was promoted to Second Lieutenant on January 18, 1859 and transferred to the 8th Rhenish Infantry Regiment (No. 70) in June of the following year . From October 1, 1862 to July 21, 1865 he was assigned to the War Academy . His training there was interrupted in 1864 when he took part in the campaign against Denmark , in which Igel was deployed in the siege of the Düppeler Schanzen .

On October 11, 1865 he was promoted to prime lieutenant and in 1866 was adjutant of the 16th Infantry Division during the mobile relationship on the occasion of the war against Austria . In this capacity he took part in the battles at Münchengrätz and Königgrätz . Igel received the Red Eagle Order IV class with swords. From May 1867, he was assigned to serve with the Great General Staff for two years . During the war against France , Igel became a captain and company commander on September 24, 1870 . He led his unit in the siege of Metz and in the battle of Amiens and Saint-Quentin , where Igel was badly wounded. For his achievements he received the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

After the war, Igel was commanded from April 1 to May 15, 1875 to serve in the railway department of the Great General Staff. This was followed by a one-year assignment for informational employment in the railway administration service at the Imperial Directorate Saarbrücken and the General Directorate of Alsace-Lorraine in Strasbourg . Igel was transferred to the General Staff on July 14, 1877 and promoted to Major on January 25, 1878 . As such he was from April 7, 1883 to December 5, 1884 with the General Staff of the IX. Army Corps in Altona . This was followed by a transfer to Bromberg as commander of the III. Battalions in Infantry Regiment No. 129 . In this capacity Igel became lieutenant colonel in mid-August 1885 and returned to Altona one month later as a regular staff officer in the 1st Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 31 . On January 22, 1887 Igel was appointed Chief of Staff of the V Army Corps in Poznan and on August 4, 1888 was promoted to Colonel.

For his services rendered in war and peace Igel was on April 4, 1888 by Emperor Friedrich III. was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility .

On May 22, 1889, he was appointed chief of the railway department in the General Staff and then as major general on May 17, 1892, commander of the 50th Infantry Brigade (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) in Darmstadt . With his promotion to Lieutenant General Igel was given command of the 10th Division in Posen on August 18, 1894 . Due to the good performance of his large association during the autumn exercises between the V. and VI. Army Corps he was awarded the crown of the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class, with the star, oak leaves and swords on the ring in mid-September 1896. On the occasion of the festival of the Order, Igel was also awarded the First Class Crown Order on January 24, 1898 . On July 2, 1898, he was finally awarded the character as General of Infantry with the statutory board for disposition made. After his departure Igel lived in Berlin, where he died in 1918.

family

Igel married Elisabeth Bronsart von Schellendorf (* 1864) in Schwerin on March 24, 1894 . She was a daughter of the later Prussian Minister of War Walther Bronsart von Schellendorff . The three sons Harry (* 1886), Wolf (1888-1970) and Kay (* 1893) emerged from the marriage.

literature

  • Karl Heyn, Siegfried Woltersdorf: Master lists and rankings of all officers of the 3rd West Prussian. Infantry Regiment No. 129 from 1881 to 1906. Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1906, pp. 37–38.
  • Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1893, p. 340.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 104.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 85 of September 23, 1896, p. 2227
  3. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 6 of January 19, 1898, p. 154.
  4. ^ Sophie Pataky : Lexicon of German women of the pen. Volume 1, Berlin 1898, p. 390.
  5. ↑ Gothaischen Genalogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadligen houses. 1907. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1906, p. 331.
personal data
SURNAME Igel, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hedgehog, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1918
Place of death Berlin