Julius von Bergmann

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Rudolf Maximilian Julius Bergmann , von Bergmann since 1887 , (born August 4, 1834 in Merseburg , † November 20, 1908 ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Julius was a son of the Prussian Colonel Gustav Adolf Bergmann (1797-1859) and his wife Sophie, born von Schouler (1804-1866). His uncle Richard von Bergmann (1819–1877) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Military career

Bergmann attended the grammar school at the monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg . On February 21, 1853, as a three-year-old volunteer, he joined the 27th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army and was promoted to Second Lieutenant by December 1854 . In October 1858, Bergmann was sent to the War Academy for further training . However, he had to interrupt his training due to the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War in 1859 and then returned to the 1st Battalion of his regiment. After demobilization , Bergmann was able to complete his training by August 1862. In the meantime promoted to prime lieutenant, he worked from October 1862 to mid-March 1866 as an adjutant of the Magdeburg governorate . Bergmann was then commanded to serve as a General Staff Officer at the General Staff and then aggregated to the General Staff of the Army . During the war against Austria in 1866, Bergmann was in command of the High Command of the 1st Army . In this position he took part in the battles at Münchengrätz , Königgrätz and Tischnowitz . Two days after the preliminary peace in Nikolsburg , Bergmann rose to captain and was awarded the Order of the Crown, IV Class with Swords , for his behavior .

After the peace treaty , he was enlisted in the General Staff and transferred to the General Command of the IV Army Corps . From March 1868 to October 1869 he was employed in the General Staff of the 8th Division in Erfurt . Bergmann then resigned in the troop service and acted as chief of the 8th company in the 5th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 94 ("Grand Duke of Saxony") . With the beginning of the war against France he was aggregated to the General Staff of the Army under transfer to the General Staff of the 7th Infantry Division . Bergmann took part in the battles at Toul , Beaumont and Sedan and was promoted to major during the siege of Paris .

Awarded with both classes of the Iron Cross , after the Peace of Frankfurt at the beginning of October 1871 , Bergmann was assigned to the General Staff of the Army under the General Staff of the 7th Division and on December 8, 1871, under position à la suite of the General Staff of the Army, became Director of the War School appointed in Neisse . In the autumn of 1875, Bergmann was commanded to perform an imperial maneuver. After his promotion to lieutenant colonel, he was transferred to Posen as commander of the 1st battalion in the 1st West Prussian Grenadier Regiment No. 6 on November 3, 1877 . On March 22, 1881, Bergmann was charged with the command of the newly established Infantry Regiment No. 99 under position à la suite . After his appointment as regimental commander on May 18, 1881, Bergmann advanced to colonel on September 16, 1881. He handed the regiment over to his successor Colonel Steffen on June 3, 1885, was then transferred to the Great General Staff and appointed Chief of the General Staff of the V Army Corps with the rank and duties of a brigade commander . In this position promoted to major general on December 4, 1886 , Bergmann was appointed inspector of the infantry schools on January 18, 1887. For his many years of service , Kaiser Wilhelm I elevated him to the Prussian nobility on March 22, 1887 in Berlin .

As Lieutenant General Bergmann was from December 15, 1888 to June 16, 1889 commander of the 18th division in Flensburg . He then took over the 30th Division , which was renamed the 33rd Division on April 1, 1890 . On January 27, 1892, Bergmann was finally appointed governor of Strasbourg . A year later he received the character of general of the infantry and in January 1895 on the occasion of the festival of the Order the Order of the Red Eagle 1st class with oak leaves. In approval of his resignation request , Bergmann was put up for disposal on January 21, 1896 with the statutory pension .

After his departure he lived in Wiesbaden until his death .

family

Bergmann married Hermine Goering (* 1844) on June 2, 1863. The marriage had three children:

  • Walter (1864–1950), German infantry general
  • Margarethe (* 1868) ⚭ October 18, 1890 in Metz Friedrich Dernen (1854–1938), German lieutenant general
  • Elisabeth (* 1871)

literature

  • Hans Friedrich Hübner: Officer master list of the 2nd Upper Rhine Infantry Regiment No. 99. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1906, pp. 1–2.
  • Max von Lessel: Commemorative sheets of the Officer Corps Infantry Regiment Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (2nd Madeburgisches) No. 27. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1890, p. 146 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Königliches Heroldsamt (Ed.), Marcelli Janecki : Handbuch des Prussischen Adels. First volume, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1892, p. 56.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 7 of January 23, 1895, p. 159.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 7 of January 25, 1896, p. 196.
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Julius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergmann, Julius Rudolf Maximilian von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1908