Hugo von Loos

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Hugo Edwin von Loos (1820-1883)

Hugo Edwin von Loos (born March 17, 1820 in Stettin , † February 12, 1883 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

The Loos family comes from the Swedish and was raised to the Swedish nobility on August 27, 1711 with the Swedish major general and commander of Hamburg Cornelius Loos (1686–1738) . Hugo was the son of the Prussian lieutenant colonel Friedrich von Loos (1772-1836) and his wife Eugenie, born von Liebermann (1788-1844). His older brother Woldemar (1814-1852) was a Prussian captain and military attaché in Paris , the younger brother Alwin (1824-1883) also rose to the position of Prussian lieutenant general.

Military career

Loos visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . He was then transferred to the 25th Infantry Regiment on August 5, 1837 as Portepeefähnrich and in the middle of the month in the 10th Infantry Regiment . After Loos had been transferred to the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot on December 2, 1838 , he was promoted to aggregate second lieutenant at the end of December 20, 1838 and was assigned to the regiment in mid-August of the following year. From August 9 to September 16, 1842 he was assigned to the 1st Battalion in the 4th Guards Landwehr Regiment in Hamm . In March 1848 Loos took part in the suppression of the street fighting in Berlin and in October was assigned to the combined Guard Reserve Battalion in Küstrin . From May to October 1849 Loos was in command of the 2nd Battalion in the 2nd Guards Landwehr Regiment and took part in the battles at Kirchheimbolanden , Wiesenthal, Neudorf, Durlach and Kuppenheim during the suppression of the Palatinate uprising and the Baden Revolution .

After the campaign, from December 26, 1850 to February 7, 1851, he was a company commander in the replacement battalion of the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot. Loos rose to the rank of captain by mid-June 1855 and in June / July 1855 was a company commander with III. Battalion in the 2nd Guards Landwehr Regiment. On May 21, 1857 he was appointed company commander and as such he was transferred to the newly established 4th Guards Regiment on July 1, 1860 and promoted to major in mid-September 1862 . In the war against Denmark in 1864 he took part in the bombardment and fighting for Fredericia . On July 8, 1864, Loos became the commander of the fusilier battalion that he led in the German War near Seybothenreuth in 1866 . For his work he received the Red Eagle Order IV class with swords.

Loos left the army on September 15, 1866, joined the navy and was appointed commander of the sea battalion. In this position he was promoted to colonel by early July 1868 . On February 15, 1869, when he was appointed commander of the 1st Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 25, he was reinstated in the Prussian Army. He led this association in 1870/71 in the war against France at Belfort , Ebweiler , Pesmes , Villersexel , Sainte-Marie , Arcey , Aibre , Pontarlier and Clerval . Awarded with both classes of the Iron Cross and the Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with Swords, Loos was appointed commander of Frankfurt am Main after the peace treaty under position à la suite of his regiment . As major general he took over the 28th Infantry Brigade in Wesel on December 12, 1874 . On the occasion of the religious festival he was awarded in January 1877, the Red Eagle II. Class with oak leaves and swords on rings and on March 13, 1877 presentation of the character as a lieutenant general with board for disposition made. He died on February 12, 1883 in Berlin and was buried three days later in the Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Loos married Hermine Ehrenberg (1820-1893) in Berlin on April 27, 1846. The couple had several children:

literature

  • Otto Zimmer-Vorhaus: 1813/1913. Officer tribe list of the Infantry Regiment von Lützow (1. Rheinisches) No. 25 and his tribe, the Kgl. Pr. Von Lützow Free Corps. Otto Beckmann Verlag, Berlin 1913, pp. 332–333.
  • Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 8, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , pp. 382-383, no. 2657.
  • Gotha. Briefadel , 1925, p. 577.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . Fifth volume, Verlag Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1864 p. 522.
  2. ↑ Auguste Luise Henriette Ida Marie von Barner . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . First volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1896, p. 129 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
personal data
SURNAME Loos, Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loos, Hugo Edwin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1883
Place of death Berlin