Karl von Ribbentrop

Karl Barthold Siegmund Ribbentrop , von Ribbentrop since 1884 (born May 19, 1822 on the Wasserleben domain ( Wernigerode district ); † October 10, 1893 in Naumburg (Saale) ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and inspector of the 2nd foot artillery inspection.

Life

origin

Karl was a son of the Prussian governor of the same name and tenant of the domain Hornburg am Fallstein Karl Ribbontrop (1772-1847) and his wife Eleonore, née Ribbentrop (1784-1844). His brother Friedrich Christian Heinrich (1819–1863) was a follower of Hegel and died as a missionary in India.

Military career

Ribbentrop attended the cathedral high school in Halberstadt and the Berlin cadet house . He was then aggregated on August 8, 1839 as a Second Lieutenant of the Guard Artillery Brigade of the Prussian Army . For further training he attended the United Artillery and Engineering School from October 1840 to September 1841 , was named an artillery officer on November 30, 1841 with a patent from September 29, 1838, and was included in his association on March 25, 1843 . From 1844 to 1846 he was assigned to the experimental department of the artillery testing commission . In March 1848 Ribbentrop took part in the suppression of the revolutionary unrest in Berlin and acted as adjutant of the III. Department. Ribbentrop was promoted to captain until the beginning of June 1856 , the following year he became the leader of the test command of the artillery testing commission and on May 1, 1858, the battery chief . On June 8, 1859, he was assigned to the combined fortress artillery department under position à la suite . This was followed on July 1, 1860, as a battery chief in the Magdeburg Artillery Brigade No. 4 , until he returned in the same capacity on May 9, 1862 in the Guard Artillery Brigade.

During the German-Danish War Ribbentrop fought near Fredericia in 1864 , took part in the assault on the Düppeler Schanzen and the transition to Alsen . For this he was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV. Class with Swords, as well as on June 7, 1864 with the Order Pour le Mérite and the Austrian Leopold Order III. Class awarded with war decoration. After the war he was appointed head of the artillery depot in Berlin and on May 20, 1865 was promoted to major in the uniform of the Guards Artillery Brigade . At the same time, Ribbentrop was from June 1865 also active as a member of the examination committee for prime lieutenants of the artillery. Left in his command, he was transferred to the Guards Fortress Artillery Regiment on March 15, 1866 and assigned to the artillery shooting school as a teacher at the artillery shooting school on August 2, 1867 under position à la suite of the regiment. Promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 22, 1868 , he was appointed director of the artillery shooting school on September 4, 1869.

During the war against France in 1870/71 Ribbentrop was the first artillery officer in the government of the coastal states under General Vogel von Falckenstein . After the war he returned to the artillery shooting school as director on April 22, 1871, became a colonel in mid-August and was given the rank and fees of regimental commander at the end of September 1871. Shortly afterwards - on October 18, 1871 - he became commander of the Guard Fortress Artillery Regiment. On January 6, 1872, he was assigned to the Artillery Department in the War Ministry and a month later Ribbentrop resigned from the Examination Board for Premier Lieutenant. On June 20, 1872 he was appointed head of the technical department for artillery matters in the War Ministry. In addition, he was under position à la suite of the War Ministry on June 9, 1874 with the rank and fees of a Brigade Commander President of the Artillery Examination Commission. On November 2, 1875 he was again assigned to the field and was transferred to the 1st Field Artillery Brigade as a commander. There he was promoted to major general on December 30, 1875 and transferred to the 4th Field Artillery Brigade as commander on March 13, 1877 . With the promotion to lieutenant general on May 21, 1881 Ribbentrop became inspector of the 2nd foot artillery inspection. In this capacity he received the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class, with oak leaves and swords on the ring, on the occasion of the festival in January 1884. In recognition of his in war and in peace, good and faithful services rendered Ribbentrop was on June 3, 1884. Kaiser Wilhelm I to the hereditary Prussian nobility raised and at the same time with board for disposition made.

He died on October 10, 1893 in Naumburg an der Saale and was buried there.

family

Ribbentrop married on June 12, 1857 in Berlin Elisabeth Klemm (1827-1907), a daughter of the Kommerzienrat and businessman Karl Wilhelm Klemm. The couple had several children:

• Eleonore (* 1858) ⚭ Hans Kretschmer, Prussian major a. D.
• Gertrud (1863–1943), adopted Joachim Ribbentrop in 1925 , later Foreign Minister of the German Reich
• Siegfried (1866–1944), Prussian captain at the war school in Metz ⚭ 1914 Maria Ceru (* 1884)

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 10, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1942], DNB 986919810 , pp. 184-186, no. 3156.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, p. 630 f.