Karl von Stumpff (General, 1819)

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Karl August Bernhard Stumpff , since 1886 von Stumpff (born March 21, 1819 in Staßfurt , † November 19, 1889 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Karl was the son of the doctor and councilor Heinrich Stumpff (1783-1844) and his wife August, née Braune (1789-1820).

Military career

After attending grammar school in Zerbst / Anhalt , Stumpff joined the 3rd Artillery Brigade of the Prussian Army as a gunner on April 11, 1836 . For further training he graduated from the United Artillery and Engineering School for three years from October 1837 and was appointed artillery officer as an aggregate secondary lieutenant at the end of December 1840 . After he had been assigned to the brigade in mid-November 1841, Stumpff was an adjutant of the III. Department active. By the beginning of 1857 he was promoted to captain and in April 1859 he was appointed battery chief . In mid-October 1863 he became a member of the Artillery Examination Commission under position à la suite . In the staff of Lieutenant General Hindersin he took part in the siege of the Düppeler Schanzen in 1864 during the war against Denmark and was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords , for his work .

After the peace agreement, Stumpff was reassigned to his regiment and at the same time commanded as adjutant to the general inspection of the artillery . Left in this position, he was transferred as a major to the Westphalian Field Artillery Regiment No. 7 on August 9, 1865 . On November 7, 1865, Stumpff resigned from service when he was appointed commander of the 1st Division in the Rhenish Field Artillery Regiment No. 8 . In the German War in 1866 he led the artillery of the combined Beyer Division during the Main Campaign in the battles near Hünfeld , Hammelburg , Werbach , Mädelhofen , Helmstadt and Roßbrunn . He received the Crown Order III. Class with swords and was reappointed a member of the artillery examination commission at the end of August 1867 under position à la suite of his regiment. At the same time, from March 1868, he was also a member of the examination committee for prime lieutenants of the artillery. As a lieutenant colonel he was commanded on May 11, 1869 to take over command of the Grand Ducal Hessian Artillery Corps in Darmstadt . Left in this command, Stumpff was placed à la suite of the Guard Field Artillery Regiment on June 24, 1869 with permission to wear the uniform of the Artillery on horseback .

In the war against France in 1870/71, Stumpff led the Hessian artillery in the battles near Vionville , Gravelotte , Noisseville , Orléans and Beaugency as well as the siege of Metz . Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , he was transferred to Stettin after the peace treaty on October 18, 1871 and promoted to colonel as commander of the Pomeranian fortress artillery regiment No. 2 . When the corps artillery was separated, Stumpff was briefly given command of the 2nd Pomeranian Field Artillery Regiment No. 17 at the beginning of May 1874 and was appointed commander of the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade in Berlin a month later under position à la suite of the regiment . As such, from mid-October 1874 he was also a member of the General Artillery Committee and the Examination Commission for captains and prime lieutenants of the artillery. Stumpff advanced to major general at the end of March 1876 and in September 1876 was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves and swords on the ring, and four years later with the Order of the Crown, 2nd class, with star and swords. Under awarding of the character he was on 14 May 1881 the legal as Lieutenant General Board for disposition made.

After his departure , Kaiser Wilhelm I elevated him to the hereditary Prussian nobility on December 1, 1886 in recognition of his services . After his death on November 22nd, 1889, Stumpff was buried in the Berlin Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Stumpff married Ida Schlichting (1836–1917) on October 12, 1857 in Jüterbog . The later Prussian Lieutenant General Karl von Stumpff and the daughter Anna (* 1860) emerged from the marriage.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1910. Fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909, p. 810.
personal data
SURNAME Stumpff, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stumpff, Karl August Bernhard von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Staßfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1889
Place of death Berlin