Heinrich von Olszewski

Ludwig Heinrich Gustav Seraphim von Olszewski (born June 22, 1823 in Königsberg , † May 22, 1918 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He was the son of Heinrich Seraphim von Olszewski (1794–1837) and his wife Malwine Margarete, born von Baczko (1802–1883). His father was a captain a. D. , last in the 3rd Infantry Regiment as well as Herr auf Porscheln, Prussian Eylau district . The Prussian Major General Eugen von Olszewski (1826–1908) and the Prussian Lieutenant General Adolf von Olszewski (1828–1907) were his brothers

Military career

Olszewski attended the community school in his hometown and the cadet house in Berlin. He was then employed on August 9, 1840 as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army . For a short time, from April to June 1843, Olszewski was in command as deputy adjutant of the 1st Battalion in the 3rd Landwehr Regiment in Insterburg . For three years from October 1844 he graduated from the General War School , which Olszewski graduated with good results. This was followed by commands to the Sömmerda rifle factory and the trigonometric department of the General Staff . From October 1853 to mid-August 1856, Olszewski was a teacher at the United Divisional School of the 1st Army Corps , was in the meantime Prime Lieutenant and then as a company leader in the 2nd Battalion in the 3rd Landwehr Regiment in Gumbinnen . With a patent from March 27, 1858 he was promoted to captain on April 10, 1858 and appointed company commander on January 14, 1860 . In this function he was assigned to the newly established 3rd Combined Infantry Regiment in May 1860 , from which the 6th East Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 43 emerged shortly afterwards. In the spring of 1866, Olszewski was transferred to the 5th East Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 41 and in the same year during the mobilization on the occasion of the German war as commander of the III. Battalion in the 1st East Prussian Landwehr Regiment in Tilsit .

After the peace agreement , Olszewski rose to major at the end of October 1866 and was appointed commander of the fusilier battalion on May 28, 1867. During the war against France in 1870/71 he took part in the sieges of Metz and Mézières and the battles at Noisseville , Amiens and Saint-Quentin . Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , he was appointed lieutenant colonel on January 20, 1873, commander of the 4th Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 67 and promoted to colonel on March 22, 1873 . As major general, Olszewski was in command of the 43rd Infantry Brigade in Kassel from January 14, 1879 to March 11, 1881, and then of the 4th Guard Infantry Brigade in Berlin. At the same time he acted from July 28, 1881 as a member of the study commission for the War Academy. On July 7, 1883, Olszewski was commissioned to lead the 20th division . Released from his relationship as a member of the study commission in mid-August 1883, he was promoted to Lieutenant General to Division Commander in Hanover on December 6, 1883 . On December 4, 1886, Olszewski was put up for disposal with the statutory pension when he was awarded the First Class Crown .

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Saint-Quentin, Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle 1st Class with Oak Leaves on January 19, 1896 . After his death on May 26, 1918, he was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin.

family

Olszewski married Emma von Fuchs (1828–1903) in Königsberg on August 20, 1850. She was the daughter of the later Prussian Lieutenant General Karl von Fuchs (1791–1874). The marriage had two sons:

• Max Karl Seraphim (* 1851), Prussian major in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" No. 90
• Hermann Bernhard Seraphim (* 1856), Prussian colonel in the Great General Staff

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 354-355, no. 2930.