Heinrich von Löbell

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Heinrich Karl Eduard von Löbell (born December 16, 1816 in Bromberg ; † October 18, 1901 in Pankow ) was a Prussian colonel , military writer and editor of the military weekly newspaper .

Life

origin

He was the son of the Prussian majors Heinrich Christian von Loebell (1780–1822) and his wife Philippine Henriette, born von Stößer (1794–1873).

Career

After his education in the Cadet Corps , Löbell was hired on August 5, 1833 as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Artillery Brigade of the Prussian Army . Transferred to the 5th Artillery Brigade, he was promoted to Prime Lieutenant at the end of February 1844 . After being assigned to the artillery department of the War Ministry , Löbell was appointed captain and company commander at the beginning of May 1850 and on May 27, 1852 as artillery officer of the Silberberg square . Under position à la suite of the 6th Artillery Brigade , he worked as a teacher at the United Artillery and Engineering School and as a member of the Artillery Examination Commission in Berlin . Released from his command at the school on April 1, 1856, Löbell was appointed a member of the examination commission for prime lieutenants of the artillery at the end of October , and on June 4, 1857 as a surplus major à la suite of the 4th artillery brigade and on September 13th in the Guard artillery brigade transferred. In addition to his work in the troop service, Löbell was a member of the study commission for the newly established war schools from mid-December 1860 . On June 3, 1862 he was appointed a member of the study commission for the cadet corps and promoted in this capacity on October 3, 1861 to lieutenant colonel. In the winter of 1862/63 Löbell was a member of a commission which, under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff of the von Moltke Army, traveled the North and Baltic Sea coasts to draw up a plan for fortification and defense. On June 25, 1864, when he was promoted to colonel, he was appointed commander of the East Prussian Field Artillery Regiment No. 1 in Königsberg . He was released from this post after a year and sent to the General Inspectorate of the Technical Institute of Artillery in Berlin. On October 24, Löbell was appointed a voting member in the General Artillery Committee and on November 5, 1865, while remaining in this relationship , was transferred to Posen as commander of the Lower Silesian Artillery Regiment No. 5 . In approval of his resignation request , Löbell was put up for disposal on May 9, 1866 with the statutory pension .

After his departure, Löbell held the chair for weapons theory at the War Academy from 1867 to 1875 and was a member of the study commission for the cadet corps until 1881. He worked as a military writer until his death and in 1871 brought the yearbooks for the German Army and Navy to life, which were published until 1919 . After two years he resigned the editorial office and together with Theodor Toesche, head of the Mittler Verlag , founded the annual reports named after him on changes and progress in the military . Löbell published from 1876 to 1880 on the subjects of artillery and weapon theory in the concise dictionary of the entire military sciences edited by Bernhard von Poten . After the death of Gerhard August von Witzleben , he took over the editorial management of the military weekly newspaper on July 1, 1880 , which Löbell ran until the end of 1888. On the occasion of his departure, Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the Order of the Crown, 2nd class. He was also Knight of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown since 1861 .

Löbell died unmarried.

literature

  • For the eighty-first birthday of the royal colonel z. DH v. Löbell. in: Military weekly paper. No. 109, December 16, 1896, pp. 2849-2854.
  • Obituary. in: Military weekly paper. No. 93 of October 23, 1901, p. 2451.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser 1901. First volume, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1901, p. 565.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 111 of 1888, p. 2311.
  3. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1898, p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Löbell, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löbell, Heinrich Karl Eduard von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian colonel, editor-in-chief of the military weekly paper
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1901
Place of death Pankow