Hugo von Fabeck

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Otto Gustav Hermann Hugo von Fabeck (born February 14, 1828 in Berlin ; † August 18, 1870 at St. Privat ) was a Prussian major and commander of the Guard Rifle Battalion .

Life

Hugo was the ninth child of the Prussian Lieutenant General Carl von Fabeck and his wife Amelie, née von Massenbach . He was the uncle of the later General of the Infantry Max von Fabeck .

Coming from the cadet corps, Fabeck was transferred on May 27, 1845 as a second lieutenant to the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 of the Prussian Army . In the further course of his military career he rose to captain here until April 1859 and was then a company commander in the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Guard Landwehr Regiment for a year. Subsequently, Fabeck was initially transferred to the Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3 as a company commander and was appointed company commander on September 19, 1860 . With this regiment he took part in the German War in 1866 . After the peace treaty , he was transferred to the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot on October 30, 1866 while being promoted to Major . Here Fabeck commanded the Fusilier battalion until April 11, 1870 and was then appointed commander of the Guard Rifle Battalion.

Fabeck led the battalion in the war against France in 1870 . He was killed on August 18, 1870 in the Battle of Gravelotte .

In his honor, the street in Berlin-Dahlem , where the new barracks of the Guard Rifle Battalion was located, was renamed Fabeckstraße in 1905 .

He married Karoline Amalie Wanda Franziska Helene von Daum on October 6, 1864 (born October 5, 1842). The couple had the following children:

  • Helene Margarete (born January 3, 1866)
  • Margarete Amelie Mathilde (1867–1868)
  • Rosa Emilie Matilde (1869–1870)

literature

  • von Bock: Base list of the officer corps of the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot. June 19, 1813– May 15, 1913. Publisher R. Eisenschmidt. Berlin 1913. p. 163.
  • Main list of officers and medical officers of the Guard Rifle Battalion. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 45.
  • Marcelli Janecki , Handbook of the Prussian Nobility , Volume 2, 1893, p.229

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report in the Provinzial-Correspondenz, August 31, 1870
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelige Häuser B , Volume X, Volume 52 of the complete series, CAStarke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972.
  3. ↑ History of Fabeckstrasse ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bam.de
personal data
SURNAME Fabeck, Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falkenstein Fabeck, Hugo von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major and commander of the Guard Rifle Battalion
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1870
Place of death at Gravelotte