Julius von Platen (officer)

Lieutenant General Julius von Platen and his wife Clara, b. von Woedtke, photography (around 1890)

Julius Gustav Friedrich Karl von Platen (born May 21, 1853 on Gut Parchow, Wiek (Rügen) ; † December 9, 1922 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Julius von Platen as a student at the Sundischen Gymnasium in Stralsund, photograph (1869/70)

Julius came from the old reprimand - Pomeranian noble family Platen . He was the third son of the Prussian cavalry captain and landowner Julius von Platen (1809-1888), landlord of Parchow, Bischofsdorf and Fährhof, today all districts of the community of Wiek (Rügen), and his wife Anna, née Crull (1827 -1905).

Military career

After initial lessons in Parchow's parents' house, Platen attended the Sundisches Gymnasium in the former St. Katharinen monastery in Stralsund from 1865 to 1870 . At the beginning of the war against France , he joined in 1870 as a cadet in the Dragoon Regiment "Freiherr von Derfflinger" (Neumärkisches) no. 3 of the Prussian Army in Treptow an der Rega and was in the same year cadet promoted. During the campaign, Platen fell ill with typhus. His parents picked him up from the Bar-le-Duc hospital to look after him at home. Promoted to secondary lieutenant in 1871 , he subsequently went through the war school in Anklam . In 1877/78 he was sent to the military riding school in Hanover. In the following years Platen attended the Berlin War Academy . As a squadron chief in his ancestral regiment, which had been moved from Western Pomerania to Bromberg , he was promoted to Rittmeister in 1886.

In 1898 he became major and changed within the regiment to the post of regular staff officer. In 1902 Platen took over the leadership of the Dragoon Regiment "Prince Albrecht of Prussia" (Litthauisches) No. 1 in Tilsit and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1903 and to colonel in 1906. In 1908 he was given command of the 37th Cavalry Brigade in Allenstein and in this position he advanced to major general on January 27, 1910. In 1912, Platen took his leave, conferring the character of Lieutenant General .

After he left, Platen lived with his wife in Potsdam at Alte Luisenstrasse 73 (today Zeppelinstrasse). The couple Julius and Agnes von Platen are buried in Potsdam in the Bornstedter Friedhof .

family

Platen married Agnes von Woedtke (1867–1927) on September 28, 1887 at Gut Woedtke in the Greifenberg district . She was the daughter of the member of the Reichstag , Prussian district administrator and Rittmeister Carl von Woedtke , landlord on Woedtke, and his wife Clara, née von Blanckenburg .

The following children were born from the marriage:

• Annemarie (1888–1969) ⚭ 1909 Hugo Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe , Prussian district administrator for the Tuchel district
• Christa (1889–1966), welfare sister
• Christoph (1890–1929), farmer and Rittmeister a. D. ⚭ 1920 Therese Neander von Petersheiden, owner of the Chursdorf / Neumark manor near Soldin , daughter of the landowner Erich Neander von Petersheiden auf Chursdorf and his wife Wanda, née von Hertell from the Grünrade / Neumark house
• Friedrich (1892–1918), killed as a Prussian lieutenant and company commander in the 9th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 170
• Eggert (1900–1964), executive employee of Siemens AG and lieutenant ret. D.

⚭ 1923 Maximiliane von Münster , daughter of the Bavarian lieutenant colonel Maximilian von Münster and his wife Adele, née Quéroy

⚭ 1937 Ruth Krumbiegel, daughter of the businessman and factory owner Paul Krumbiegel and his wife Charlotte, née Meisch

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses A. Volume XIII, p. 401, Volume 60 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975.
• Carl Gustav von Platen: History of the family von Platen. Part II, 1966, p. 261 ff.