Hermann von Vietinghoff (General)

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Lieutenant General Frhr. v. Vietinghoff-Scheel
Coat of arms of the von Vittinghoff-Scheel

Hermann Freiherr von Vietinghoff called Scheel (born October 25, 1851 in Thorn ; † May 27, 1933 ) was a Prussian cavalry general , wing adjutant of the German crown prince and commander of the Order of St. John .

Life

origin

Vietinghoff came from an old Westphalian noble family in the county of Mark with the parent company Vittinghoff (today a floor monument). His parents were Lieutenant Hermann von Vietinghoff (1821-1851) and his wife Agatha, née von Wedel (1824-1892). In 1858 she married Hermann von Bülow († 1891), Herr auf Hoffelde, Wilhelmsthal and Luisenhof.

Career

In 1869 he joined the Cuirassier Regiment No. 2 of the Prussian Army in Pasewalk . During the war against France in 1870/71 he was promoted to secondary lieutenant and received the Iron Cross, 2nd class. As a prime lieutenant in 1877 he moved to the staff of the Uhlan Regiment No. 1 , where he was promoted to captain on April 21, 1883 .

In December 1884 he became the personal adjutant of the then Crown Prince Friedrich III. After his death he was appointed a wing adjutant by Kaiser Wilhelm II and transferred to the army general staff.

Promoted to major on June 19, 1888 , he moved to the War Academy , from which he took over the leadership of the cuirassier regiment "Queen" (Pomeranian) No. 2 in 1893 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 20 . Back in the general staff, he was transferred to Karlsruhe as chief of the XIV Army Corps and on August 16, 1896, was appointed colonel . On January 27, 1898 he took over the 17th Cavalry Brigade (Großherzog-Mecklenburgische) in Schwerin and was promoted to major general on July 3 of this year . In the autumn of 1901 he attended a maneuver in Switzerland . Promoted to lieutenant general on January 27, 1903 , he was appointed commander of the 3rd division in Stettin on April 18, 1903 . On May 21, 1907 he was commissioned with the leadership of the IX. Army Corps in Altona . With his promotion to general of the cavalry followed on August 16, 1907, his appointment as commanding general of the corps . In approval of his resignation request, Vietinghoff was placed on April 12, 1910 at the disposition and at the same time à la suite of the Cuirassier Regiment "Queen" No. 2.

He was commander of the Order of St. John and was on friendly terms with the First Mayor of Hamburg Johann Heinrich Burchard . His relationship with the well-known general director of the Hamburg-America Line Albert Ballin , who in turn maintained a friendly relationship with Kaiser Wilhelm II, was less good .

When the First World War broke out , Vietinghoff was re-used as a ZD officer and took over the Deputy General Command of the II Army Corps in Stettin on August 2, 1914 . In October 1918 he tried tough measures to stop the outbreak of the revolution in Szczecin. He even issued the order to shoot against the workers' revolt that broke out there in the shipyards. This led to a discussion in the German Reichstag and to the recall of Vietinghoff immediately before the outbreak of the revolution.

After the war he retired to his villa in Baden-Baden and ran a large house here. This villa soon became a meeting place for personalities from the imperial era. Prince Oskar of Prussia , a son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, was his guest, as was the former Grand Admiral . D. Prince Heinrich of Prussia . He was in correspondence with the later Reich President General Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich Ludendorff . His property neighbors, Prince and Princess Biron of Courland, were also among his visitors .

family

He married Agnes Freiin von Loën (* 1856) on September 13, 1879. The couple had several children including:

  • Agnes (1881–1963) ⚭ 1904 Georg von Bülow (1866–1917), Lord of Zurawia
  • Fides-Maria (* 1884)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Agathe Albertine Minette von Wedel . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . First volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1896, p. 927-927 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
  2. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 66 of May 23, 1907, p. 1525.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 104 of August 17, 1907, p. 2381.
  4. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 46 of April 14, 1910, p. 1093.
personal data
SURNAME Vietinghoff, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vietinghoff, Hermann Freiherr von; Scheel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1933
Place of death Baden-Baden