Karl von Orff

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General Karl von Orff
Coat of arms of the Bavarian aristocratic family Orff on Frohburg
General Karl von Orff, photo around 1880

Karl Ritter von Orff auf Frohburg , (born December 10, 1817 in Alzey , † January 31, 1895 in Würzburg ) was a Bavarian infantry general .

Life

origin

On October 1, 1790, Elector Karl Theodor raised the Nördlingen- born doctor, professor of anatomy and later head of the Munich midwifery school, Gottfried Karl Orff (1755-1837), to the nobility. After his villa “Frohburg” in the Königinstraße, he received the nobility title “Edler von Orff auf Frohburg”. In 1810 the title of nobility was confirmed again. Since Gottfried Karl von Orff had no descendants, he adopted the Bavarian lieutenant Karl Frohburger (1797–1878), to whom the title of nobility passed, under which he was entered in the Bavarian nobility register on February 13, 1817. This adopted son was the father of General von Orff.

Karl was the son of the Bavarian Army Lieutenant à la suite and registrar at the Bavarian General Customs Administration, Karl von Orff (formerly Karl Frohburger) and his wife Philippine, née Perpente. At that time there was a Bavarian customs registration office in Alzey, just before the state border with the Rhine Palatinate , where the father lived and officiated.

Military career

In 1828 Orff joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps . On August 19, 1837 he became a second lieutenant in the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army , from where he switched to the Infantry Body Regiment in the same year . In 1847 Orff was appointed battalion adjutant, and in 1848 he was promoted to first lieutenant and brigade adjutant. In 1850 he was promoted to captain and, as such, was transferred to the quartermaster staff in 1855 . After returning to service as a major in the (then) 2nd Jäger Battalion in 1859 , he returned to the General Quartermaster's staff as a lieutenant colonel at the outbreak of the German War in 1866 and was appointed chief of staff of the 3rd Infantry Division.

After the end of the war, Orff became Colonel Director of the Bavarian War Academy, which was to be set up . In 1868 he worked out the weapons training regulations for the Bavarian Infantry and in 1869 he was appointed to the board of a commission for the revision of the Bavarian Army Service Regulations. On February 1, 1870, Orff was appointed major general and commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade . At the head of this unit he took part in the Franco-German War of 1870/71 . Orff received the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order for his services in the Battle of Wörth . In the further course of the war Orff's brigade was particularly involved in the battles of Sedan (Bazailles) and Coulmiers , and in the battles of Orleans ( Battle of Loigny ) they also played an outstanding role. In 1873 he took over the leadership of the 1st Division , from 1874 he commanded the II Army Corps in Würzburg, whose commanding general he became in 1875. 1880 to general of the infantry transported, he went in April 1890 in pension and became the disposition made. On the occasion of his farewell, Prince Regent Luitpold paid tribute to him by awarding him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .

family

Orff was married to Franziska (Fanny) von Schelling, granddaughter of the writer Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter and cousin of the Prussian Justice Minister Hermann von Schelling . Her daughter Karoline Johanna von Orff (1855–1912) married Otto Kreß von Kressenstein in 1879 , who later became Colonel General and Bavarian Minister of War.

There is no relationship with Major General Carl Maximilian von Orff (1828–1905), the grandfather of the composer Carl Orff , but merely the same name.

Honors

Since the founding of the 17th Infantry Regiment in Germersheim in 1878, Orff was the owner and the regiment kept the name even after his death until the unit was dissolved in 1919.

Fort V of the Ingolstadt fortress , built in 1878/82, also bore the general's name.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Spengler: It happened in Munich. Bruckmann Verlag, 1971, p. 223. ISBN 3-7654-1157-4 . Excerpt from the source
  2. ^ Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon. Volume 2, p. 191. Ilmenau 1826, scan from the source
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses. Volume 7, 1913, p. 609. Excerpt from the source
  4. ^ Historical Association of Upper Bavaria: Upper Bavarian Archive. Volume 112, 1988, pp. 141, 150. Excerpts from the source
  5. ^ Schrettinger: The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order and its members. 1882, p. 601. Excerpt from the source
  6. ↑ Augsburger Postzeitung, year 1870, p. 1851. As a result, the "Edler von Orff auf Frohburg" became the "Ritter von Orff auf Frohburg".
  7. ^ Military weekly paper , No. 37, April 26, 1890, p. 1178.
  8. ^ Website on the wife's obituary, 1893
  9. ^ Käte Lorenzen:  Gotter, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 658 f. ( Digitized version ). with the name of the granddaughter Franziska von Schelling and her husband Karl von Orff
  10. ^ Rainer Albert Müller : Orff, Karl (Maximilian) von (officer). In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 563 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Website of the Ingolstadt Fortress (Chapters XV and XVII)
personal data
SURNAME Orff, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orff auf Frohburg, Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Alzey
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1895
Place of death Wurzburg