Karl von Kageneck

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Karl Marquard Viktor Graf von Kageneck (born May 10, 1871 in Munzingen , † April 23, 1967 ) was a Prussian major general and military attaché .

Life

Karl von Kageneck came from the Baden-based Catholic noble family von Kageneck . As a young man, he joined the Prussian Army on October 1, 1889 . In 1891 he was promoted to second lieutenant. After graduating from the War Academy from 1901 to 1902, he was assigned to the General Staff on May 22, 1902. It was aggregated the following year. Promoted to captain on January 17, 1904, he served in the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps that same month. After a year and a half he was sent back to the General Staff to work from there as a military attaché at the German embassy in Brussels. Here he replaced the military attaché Detlof von Winterfeldt (1867–1940). Chargé d'affaires of the embassy at that time was Nikolaus von Wallwitz (1852–1941). After only one year of service in Brussels, von Kageneck was promoted to Rittmeister on September 13, 1906 and appointed as a wing adjutant to Emperor Wilhelm II . He soon moved to the German embassy in Vienna as a military attaché, where he replaced Karl-Ulrich von Bülow (1862–1914). The German ambassador in Vienna at this time was Count Carl von Wedel (1842–1919). Vienna as a location played a very important role in Prussia's political relations. For Austria-Hungary was one of the main allies of Germany and since the turn of the century there were both in political and in military matters between the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy intensive coordination. Together with the naval attaché Paul Rampold (1860–1962), von Kageneck was responsible for the exchange of information on all military issues and the maintenance of military-political relations. On December 24, 1908 he was promoted to major and on January 27, 1914 to lieutenant colonel. In the meantime, in September 1909, as an honorary service to Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and in September 1910 as a wing adjutant to the emperor, he took part in the annual imperial maneuvers.

First World War

After serving as a link between the German and the Austro-Hungarian General Staff in the July crisis of 1914 , Karl von Kageneck was the German liaison man at the headquarters of the Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf during the first months of the war . His surviving war diary is a not insignificant source of the events Kageneck witnessed and his observations offer clues about the thoughts and motives underlying the decisions and measures of this time. He finally held this office until February 27, 1916. His successor as military attaché in Vienna was Major Wolfgang Muff (1880–1947). On August 18, 1916, von Kageneck was promoted to colonel and appointed commander of the 28th Cavalry Brigade . Later, he was on the western front of Canadian troops in captivity taken and until the end of the war in a relatively comfortable British internment camp for German officers detained. He was released from captivity on October 25, 1919.

family

From Kageneck's marriage to Maria von Schorlemer-Lieser (1888-1959), a daughter of the Prussian Agriculture Minister Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser , Arbogast "Erbo" Graf von Kageneck (1918-1942) emerged.

Karl von Kageneck died on April 23, 1967.

literature

  • Bern Felix Schulze, Before the outbreak of war in 1914
  • Tim Hadley: Military Diplomacy in the Dual Alliance. German Military Attaché Reporting from Vienna. 1906-1914. In: War In History. (WIH) 17, 2010, No. 3, pp. 294-312. ( doi : 10.1177 / 0968344510365421 ).
  • Christian Zweng, Generale 1866–1920, Institute for German Philosophy, Military History, Volume 8, Osnabrück 2014, pp. 99f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to: Hans Jürgen Pantenius: Conrad von Hötzendorf's idea of attack against Italy. 1980, p. 1300.
  2. ↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 458.
  3. ↑ Klaus Volker Giessler, The Institution of the Naval Attachés in the Empire, Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein, 1976
  4. ↑ Christian Zweng, Generale 1866–1920, Institute for German Philosophy, Department of Military History, Volume 8, Osnabrück 2014, pp. 99f.
  5. ↑ Gordon Williamson, Ramiro Bujeiro: Knight's Cross Oak Leaves Recipients 1941-45. The Southern Fronts 1941-45. 2005, p. 55.
personal data
SURNAME Kageneck, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kageneck, Karl Marquard Viktor Graf von; Count von Kageneck, Carl Marquart Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general and military attaché
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Munzingen
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1967