Heinrich von Steinaecker

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Heinrich Freiherr von Steinaecker

Heinrich Freiherr von Steinaecker , often Steinäcker (born December 29, 1850 in Bernkastel , † August 4, 1926 in Boppard ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and member of the Prussian House of Representatives ( center ).

Life

He came from the old noble family of Barons von Steinaecker and was the son of the Prussian district administrator Franz Ludwig von Steinaecker and his wife Mathilde Euler, daughter of the Episcopal Trier judge Joseph Euler.

The boy was raised by the mother because the father died prematurely. Steinaecker attended grammar school in Trier, then the Kassel War School and served as an officer in the Prussian Army from 1868 to 1912 , where he also took part in the war against France in 1870/71 . His last position as Lieutenant General was in command of Posen .

Steinaecker belonged to the German Center Party and represented it from 1912 to 1918, as a member of the Prussian state parliament for the constituency of Trier Stadt und Land . He was also a member of the Prussian manor house .

In 1913 he appeared as a speaker at the German Catholic Day in Metz and is therefore immortalized with a portrait in the official Festschrift.

Steinaecker wrote a number of military history books, including a. Fight and victory a hundred years ago. Depiction of the Wars of Liberation of 1813/15 and his multi-volume memories of the Franco-German War of 1870–1871 .

Since 1875 he was married to Karola Mayer-Fitzroy from Bonn, a granddaughter of the physician August Franz Josef Karl Mayer (1787–1865) and his wife Marie Warren von Fitzroy.

literature

  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 374.
  • Heinz Monz (Hrsg.): Trier Biographical Lexicon. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier, 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical page on the father
  2. ↑ August Ludwig Degener: Who is who ?: The German who's who. Volume 4, 1909, p. 1364. Excerpt from the source
  3. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration by Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 374 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
  4. ^ Genealogical manual of the princely houses. Volume 16, p. 478, ISBN 3798008248 . Excerpt from the source
personal data
SURNAME Steinaecker, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinaecker, Heinrich Hugo Franz Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and politician (center)
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernkastel
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1926
Place of death Boppard