Hermann von Tresckow (General, 1849)

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Leopold Hans Heinrich Eugen Hermann von Tresckow (born May 11, 1849 in Pobanz , † March 4, 1933 in Wartenberg ) was a Prussian general of the cavalry . During the First World War he was in command of Potsdam .

Life

origin

Tresckow came from an old Prussian officer family. He was the son of the Prussian Premier Lieutenant a. D. and Herr auf Pobanz, Hermann von Tresckow (1816–1889), and his wife Wilhelmine, born von der Marwitz (1823–1900). She was the daughter of a Prussian Rittmeister. The later Prussian major general Heinrich von Tresckow (1853-1925) was his brother.

Military career

He joined the 1st Brandenburg Uhlan Regiment (Emperor of Russia) No. 3 of the Prussian Army in Fürstenwalde on July 1, 1866, and was promoted to Second Lieutenant there on February 8, 1868 . During the war against France , Tresckow was commanded from September 1870 to the cavalry staff guard of King Wilhelm I's headquarters and was wounded near Laon . For his achievements he received the Iron Cross, 2nd class. In 1871, unnoticed by the other guests, he was present as a platoon leader of an escort at the imperial coronation in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles .

After the Peace of Frankfurt Tresckow returned to his association . From August 1, 1876 to April 1, 1878 he was in charge of the regiment's stud management and has since been promoted to prime lieutenant. On July 12, 1881 he was transferred to the 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment , where Tresckow was appointed chief of the 5th Squadron a month later with his promotion to Rittmeister . This was followed by a position as adjutant of the Guard Cavalry Division from January 27, 1888 . Promoted to major on May 22, 1889 , Tresckow was a regular staff officer in the 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment from October 20, 1891. On May 13, 1895 he was charged with leading the "von Bredow" (1st Silesian) No. 4 Dragoon Regiment in Lüben , promoted Tresckow to lieutenant colonel on June 18, 1895 and appointed him on July 14, 1895 as regimental commander. On December 21, 1897 he was promoted to colonel and as such he was appointed commander of the 7th Cavalry Brigade in Magdeburg on May 22, 1900 . Since June 16, 1901 Major General, Tresckow was entrusted on August 1, 1904 with the management of the inspector of the 2nd Cavalry Inspection in Stettin . With simultaneous promotion to lieutenant general on August 9, 1905, he was appointed inspector. On March 3, 1908, Tresckow was put up for disposition in approval of his resignation letter, conferring the character of general of the cavalry . Up to this point in time he had been awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, Second Class with Star and Oak Leaves, and the Grand Cross of the Order of Albrecht for his services .

During the First World War , Tresckow was reused and acted as the commandant of Potsdam.

He was active as a gentleman rider all his life and won various prizes. In 1906 he took part in a tournament on the Karlshorst harness racing track near Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm II once introduced him to the Russian Tsar Nicholas II as "This is the best rider in my army!"

In 1901 he sold the Petersdorf estate. In retirement he managed the Wartenberg estate in Neumark . He inherited this in 1900 from his uncle General of the Infantry Hermann von Tresckow . In 1924 his son Henning took over the management of the estate.

family

Tresckow was initially married to Illa von Kameke , daughter of General of the Infantry Georg von Kameke , Prussian Minister of War. From this marriage the two sons Hans-Hermann Georg Heinrich (* 1885) and Jürgen Hermann Heinrich (* 1886) emerged, who, like their father, embarked on an officer career in the Prussian army.

In his second marriage Tresckow was married to Marie-Agnes (1869–1926), daughter of Count Robert von Zedlitz-Trützschler , Prussian Minister of Culture and later President of Posen, Hessen-Nassau and Silesia. Tresckow was the father of eight children a. a. later Lieutenant Colonel Gerd von Tresckow (1899–1944) and Major General Henning von Tresckow (1901–1944). The latter was one of the central figures in the military resistance against Adolf Hitler .

Others

Information in scientific works that he was a wing adjutant to Kaiser Wilhelm I and a member of the military cabinet cannot be verified and is probably based on confusion because his name is identical with his uncle.

literature

  • Fritz Georg von Maltzahn: Stammliste of the Uhlan Regiment Emperor Alexander II of Russia (1st Brandenburg) No. 1 from the establishment 1809 to 1908. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1908, p. 139f.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Our contemporaries. Who is it 5th edition, Degener, Leipzig 1911, p. 1488.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Toeche-Mittler: The imperial proclamation in Versailles on January 18, 1871. 2nd edition, ES Mittler, Berlin 1996, p. 97.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 30 of March 5, 1908, p. 670.
  3. ↑ German Officer Association (Ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1926, p. 692.
  4. ↑ a b c Erika von Tresckow: Memories of Henning von Tresckow. In: Sigrid Grabner , Hendrik Röder (eds.): Henning von Tresckow, I am who I was. Texts and documents too . 3rd modified edition, Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-44-9 , p. 15.
  5. ↑ a b c d Ines Reich: Potsdam and July 20, 1944. On the trail of the resistance against National Socialism. Accompanying document to the exhibition of the Military History Research Office and the Potsdam Museum. 3rd modified edition, Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-7930-0697-2 , p. 93.
  6. ↑ Erika von Tresckow: Memories of Henning von Tresckow . In: Sigrid Grabner , Hendrik Röder (eds.): Henning von Tresckow, I am who I was. Texts and documents too . 3rd modified edition, Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-44-9 , p. 18.
  7. ↑ Peter Steinbach , Johannes Tuchel (Ed.): Lexicon of Resistance 1933–1945. (= Beck series . 1061). 2nd revised and expanded edition, Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43861-X , p. 203.
  8. ↑ Erika von Tresckow: Memories of Henning von Tresckow . In: Sigrid Grabner , Hendrik Röder (eds.): Henning von Tresckow, I am who I was. Texts and documents too . 3rd modified edition, Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-44-9 , p. 13.
  9. ↑ a b Ines Reich, Kurt Finker : Potsdam and July 20, 1944. Officer and officials in the resistance against Nazism. In: Dietrich Eichholtz (Ed.): Persecution, everyday life, resistance. Brandenburg during the Nazi era. Studies and documents. Commissioned by the Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-353-00991-4 , p. 330.
  10. ↑ Peter Broucek : Military Resistance: Studies on the Austrian state sentiment and National Socialist defense. Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77728-1 , p. 370.
personal data
SURNAME Tresckow, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tresckow, Leopold Hans Heinrich Eugen Hermann von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Pobanz
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1933
Place of death Wartenberg