Hugo von Diehl

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Hugo Joseph August Diehl , knight of Diehl since 1881 (born December 21, 1821 in Würzburg , † March 17, 1883 in Munich ) was a Bavarian infantry general and chief of the general staff .

Life

family

Hugo was the son of the royal stable master August Diehl and his wife Eleonore, née Enhuber. He married Augusta Kaiser, daughter of a chief customs inspector, in Munich on January 25, 1859.

Military career

Diehl entered the cadet corps as a pupil in the fall of 1832 and was taken over on August 11, 1840 as a Junker in the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" of the Bavarian Army . At the end of April 1841 he was promoted to sub-lieutenant and rose to captain 2nd class in the regiment by the end of June 1854 . From November 1858 to April 1859 Diehl was assigned to the war school as a teacher of tactics , was promoted to captain 1st class in mid-May 1859 and was transferred to the general master's staff at the end of the month. During the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War , he was a general staff officer in the 1st Infantry Division . After demobilization , he was transferred to the General Staff of the General Command in Munich and from October 1859 resumed teaching at the war school. As a major , Diehl was briefly on the interim board of the war school, moved to the central office of the general master staff in mid-September 1862 and was appointed chief of staff at the Munich General Command on January 1, 1866.

On the occasion of the war against Prussia , on May 21, 1866, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the 1st Infantry Division under Major General Stephan . In this capacity he took part in the battles near Kissingen , Helmstadt and Roßbrunn , was Lieutenant Colonel in mid-August 1866 and shortly thereafter was awarded the Knight's Cross of the First Class of the Military Merit Order for his services and commended for his behavior in front of the enemy. After the war Diehl first returned to his peacetime position at the Munich General Command, and on February 7, 1867, he was employed as a commander of the war school. At the same time he taught tactics, war history and the history of the art of war for two years at the newly established war academy from November 1867 . After being promoted to colonel, he returned to the Central Office of the General Staff on January 8, 1869, and resigned as commander of the 14th Hartmann Infantry Regiment on February 1, 1870 . Diehl led this association at the beginning of the war against France for a short time even after he was appointed commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" on August 22, 1870. For his work at Sedan , he was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Commander of the Military Merit Order. On September 15, 1870 he was assigned to lead the 6th Infantry Brigade , which was on the march to the siege of Paris . For leading his brigade and his brave behavior in Plessis-Piquet and Moulin de la Tour on September 19, 1870 Diehl was the October 27, 1870 the chairmanship of General Hartmann in Châtenay-sur-Seine , meeting Chapter of the Knight Military Max Joseph Order appointed. While being promoted to major general, Diehl was appointed brigade commander on October 4, 1870 and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class in the middle of the month.

After the peace treaty he returned to the garrison in Nuremberg and on April 24, 1873, was promoted to the position of lieutenant general commander of the superior 3rd division . In the same capacity, he was transferred to the 1st Division in Munich on July 24, 1878 and in mid-August 1880 he received the Commander-in-Chief of the Order of Merit from St. Michael . With simultaneous promotion to general of the infantry and transfer of the inspection of the military education system, he was appointed chief of the general staff of the army on June 16, 1881. On November 6, 1881 Diehl was incorporated into the kingdom's register of nobility as a knight of the Military Max Joseph Order . King Ludwig II recognized him at the end of August 1882 by being awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit. Diehl died childless of blood poisoning at the age of 62 .

Diehl had already worked as a painter during his active service. With a recommendation from King Ludwig I , he was on leave in Paris in 1845/46 to train with Peter Heß , Albrecht Adam and Horace Vernet . His painting Battle of Szöreg, August 5, 1849 was in the collection of Emperor Franz Joseph I , while the Storming of Montmatre (1814) belonged to Queen Mother Marie of Bavaria .

literature

  • Diehl, Hugo. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 221 ( archive.org ).
  • General of the Infantry Hugo Ritter v. Diehl. In: Military weekly paper . No. 29, April 11, 1883, pp. 553-556.
  • Max Spindler (ed.), Walter Schärl: The composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806 to 1918. Michael Lassleben publishing house, Kallmütz / Opf. 1955. p. 249.
  • Baptist Schrettinger: The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order and its members. Oldenbourg, Munich 1882, Volume 1, pp. 155-157.
  • Diehl, Hugo von . In: Benezit Dictionary of Artists . Oxford Univ Pr, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , doi : 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00051250 (English, beginning of the article).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). Series of publications on Bavarian regional history, Volume 89, CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 40.
  2. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian General Staff (1792-1919). Series of publications on Bavarian regional history, Volume 122, CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-10703-6 , p. 310.
  3. ^ Diehl, Hugo von . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 230 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Diehl, Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diehl, Hugo Joseph August Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian general of the infantry and chief of the general staff
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1883
Place of death Munich