Julius von Suchten

Karl Friedrich Adolf Julius von Suchten (born March 10, 1809 in Rastenburg , † March 1, 1897 in Königsberg ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

Julius was a son of the Prussian Colonel Franz Karl von Suchten (1787-1859) and his wife Marie, née Richter.

Military career

Suchten joined the 1st Dragoon Regiment of the Prussian Army as a dragoon on September 14, 1825 . There he was appointed sergeant on October 1, 1827 and on November 15, 1827 portepeefähnrich. On May 15, 1829, he was transferred to the 3rd Infantry Regiment as a surplus second lieutenant and on February 19, 1831 he was assigned. Suchten was a battalion adjutant from 1838 to 1849 and has meanwhile been promoted to prime lieutenant . With promotion to captain , he was appointed company commander on January 10, 1850 . This was followed as a major on July 21, 1857 as a commander of the 1st Battalion in the 5th Landwehr Regiment. As a battalion leader, Suchten was assigned to the 5th Combined Infantry Regiment on May 8, 1860, from which the 8th East Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 45 emerged on July 1, 1860 . As the commander of the 1st battalion in Graudenz , he became a lieutenant colonel on October 18, 1861 , and on April 25, 1864 he was given the character of a colonel. Under awarded the patent for his service degree and position à la suite , he was on 13 August 1864 commander of the fortress Colberg . During the mobilization on the occasion of the German War , Suchten was commander of the 4th Pomeranian Landwehr Regiment in 1866. After returning to his peacetime position, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Pomeranian Grenadier Regiment (Colberg) No. 9 in Stargard on October 30, 1866 . In this capacity, Suchte was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with a ribbon, on the occasion of the festival in January 1867 . Under awarding of the character as a major general, he received on March 5, 1867 his parting with inn was for the April 2, 1868 disposition made and adopted on October 7, 1869 board.

For the duration of the mobile relationship on the occasion of the war against France , Suchten was again put up for disposition in 1870/71 and used as commander of the deputy 2nd Infantry Brigade . On July 20, 1871 he received the Crown Order II. Class. He died on March 1, 1897 in Königsberg.

His regimental commander wrote in his assessment in 1847: “He is a good officer in every respect and will certainly become a good company commander. After his marriage he had some misfortune, so that he lost almost all outside subsidies and he had to live on his salary with his wife and children. Suitable for transportation. "

family

Suchten married Julie Sackersdorff († 1867) in Lyck in 1832 . The marriage resulted in the children August Georg (* 1833), Franziska (* 1835), the twins Julius and Adolf (* 1837), Anna (* 1840), Elisabeth (* 1841), Bertha (* 1844) and Klara Maria Therese (* 1838), who married the district court counselor Moritz Theodor Dietrich von Heyking (* 1832) in 1861

After the death of his first wife, Suchten married Hulda von Quassowski, widowed Hinz, on November 5, 1869 in Königsberg. With her he had the children Ellinor (* 1870), Magda (* 1871) and Gustav (* 1873).

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , Volume 7, pp. 433-434, No. 2387
• Family wanted. In: Dorothea Weichbrodt born. v. Tiedemann: patricians, citizens, residents of the Free and Hanseatic City of Danzig in family and name tables from the 14th to 18th centuries. Danziger Verlagsgesellschaft Paul Rosenberg, Klausdorf near Kiel, Volume 1, pp. 431–432.

Individual proof

1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 54 of August 21, 1867, p. 492.
2. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 94 of November 13, 1869, p. 748.