Hermann von Randow

Hermann von Randow

Hermann Georg Friedrich Karl von Randow (born January 29, 1847 at Nauke Castle in Silesia , † August 6, 1911 in Bad Nauheim ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and writer.

Life

origin

Hermann was the son of the Prussian major Eugen von Randow (1815–1885) and his wife Anna, née Countess von Kospoth (1819–1868).

Military career

After graduating from high school at the Liegnitzer Ritterakademie Randow joined on 1 October 1864 as a cadet in the Rheinische Rifle Battalion. 8 of the Prussian army and took in 1866 in the war against Austria in the fighting at Chicken Creek , Miinchengratz and Hradec Kralove in part. On July 20, 1866, the evening of the Battle of Königgrätz, he was promoted to second lieutenant in the field . Randow was there again in the war against France in 1870 and was hit by three bullets and seriously wounded by three bullets near Gravelotte in the death storm of his battalion through the Mance Gorge on St. Hubert.

Awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class, he graduated from the War Academy for three years from October 1871 and advanced to Prime Lieutenant in June 1873 . From 1875 to 1877 Randow was assigned to the Great General Staff . During this time he was transferred to the 1st Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 5 in Görlitz on January 11, 1876 , promoted to captain on August 10, 1877 and transferred to the war school in Neisse as a teacher in the position of his battalion à la suite . With the appointment as company commander in the 3rd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 50 Randow returned to the troop service on September 16, 1881. As a surplus major , he was transferred to the 5th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 113 in Freiburg im Breisgau on March 22, 1889 . A year later he became battalion commander in the infantry regiment "Graf Werder" (4th Rheinisches) No. 30 in Saarlouis . At the age of 44 he was appointed director of the war school in Hersfeld in 1891 and rose to lieutenant colonel in 1894 . In 1897 he left the war school and took command of the 5th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 53 in Cologne while being promoted to colonel . After he had received the Order of the Crown, Second Class, on June 16, 1900 he was promoted to Major General and was transferred to Neisse as commander of the 24th Infantry Brigade . On the occasion of the festival in January 1902, he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves. Under awarding of the character as a lieutenant general Randow was on March 22, 1903, the statutory pension for disposition made.

After his farewell, he lived in Wiesbaden, died in Bad Nauheim and was buried in Liegnitz .

writer

In addition to and especially after his career as an officer, Hermann von Randow dealt with writing and published the historical novels Saalburg and Landflucht , among other things . In the novel Saalburg he deals with the epoch in which the Roman border wall ( Limes ) in Germania and with it the Saalburg succumbed to the onslaught of the Teutons . Hermann carried out extensive historical and archaeological studies for this novel. At the time when the Saalburg fort was restored to its original form at the suggestion of Kaiser Wilhelm II , he was in contact with the restorer, Bad Homburg building officer Louis Jacobi , and played a major role in military research into the layout and use of this border fort.

Hermann von Randow was a long-time board member of the German Colonial Society and a member of the supervisory board of Sachsenwerk-Licht und Kraft-AG . He was also a member of the Central Aid Association of the German Nobility Cooperative .

family

Randow married Rosa Müller (* 1861) on April 13, 1878 in Gießen . The later German colonel and free corps leader Alfred (1879-1958) and the children Gero (1885-1952) and Helma (* 1892) emerged from the marriage.

literature

• Olof v. Randow: The Randows. A family story. Degener, Neustadt / Aisch 2001, ISBN 3-7686-5182-7 , ( German Family Archives . 135/136).
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 1901. First year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1900, p. 723.
• Paul Haehling von Lanzenauer: Officer master list of the 5th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 113 and his master battalion of the Grand Ducal Baden 3rd Fusilier Battalion. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1904, p. 206.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 7 of January 22, 1902, p. 159.