Karl Stadie

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Karl (also Carl ) August Gottlieb Stadie (born October 10, 1847 in Allenau , † April 5, 1924 in Georgenswalde ) was a German major general and local researcher .

Life

He was the son of the manor owner Ludwig Stadie and his wife Charlotte, nee Perkuhn.

Stadie attended the old town high school in Königsberg , where he passed his Abitur on Michaelmas Day in 1866 and then joined the Prussian army . He joined the East Prussian fortress artillery regiment No. 1 in 1870 and was appointed commander of the Westphalian foot artillery regiment No. 7 in Cologne in 1899 . 1909 Stadie was with the character of a lieutenant colonel retired from active service. With the outbreak of the First World War he rejoined the army and was appointed colonel and commander of Artillery Park Command 5. After the war ended, he was promoted to major general in 1921 .

Since 1894 Stadie belonged to the Prussia antiquity society . After retiring from military service, he moved to Königsberg and devoted himself entirely to archeology. In 1902 he became a board member of the Prussia antiquity society, which later made him an honorary member. In addition to field name research and genealogical work, he was particularly concerned with researching East Prussian soil monuments. He himself carried out numerous excavations and investigations, some of the find reports of which he published in the reports of the Society's meetings. He made important finds in the districts of Angerburg, Darkehmen, Pr. Eylau, Fischhausen, Gerdauen, Goldap, Neidenburg, Ragnit and Rastenburg, including the excavation of imperial burial fields in Gruneiken and Old and New Bodschwingken . Based on preliminary work by Heinrich Kemke , he was able to identify over 70 Bronze Age barrows in the Warnick Forest .

Stadie died on April 5, 1924 in Georgenswalde , where he had lived since 1910, and was buried in the local cemetery.

Publications

  • Contributions to fishing from East Prussia's past. In: Altpreußische Forschungen 2/1925, pp. 47–58.
  • The Perkuhner. An old Prussian free family. In: Prussia 26 (1926), pp. 3-109.
  • Hunting from East Prussia. In: Prussia 26 (1926), pp. 111-189.

literature

  • Heinrich Kemke : In memory of General Stadie. In: Prussia. Journal of the ancient society Prussia 26 (1926), pp. VII – XI.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Walter Grunert: Stadie, Karl August Gottlieb . In: Old Prussian biography . Volume 2, Elwert, Marburg 1967, p. 688.
  2. ^ A b Günter Wegner : Occupation of the German armies 1815-1939 . Volume 3: The occupation of the active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or list up to August 26, 1939 , Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 , p. 310.
  3. ^ Report on the old town. Gymnasium in Königsberg i. Pr. From Easter 1866 to Easter 1867 . Verlag EJ Dalkowski, Königsberg 1867, p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Stadie, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stadie, Karl August Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenau
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1924
Place of death Georgenswalde