Karl von Veith

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Karl Johann Veith , von Veith since 1871 (born December 28, 1818 in Magdeburg , † March 21, 1892 in Bonn ) was a Prussian major general and commander of the 6th field artillery brigade .

Life

origin

Karl was a son of the Prussian Colonel Johannes Veith (1788-1856) and his wife Marie, née Treubrodt (1795-1873).

Military career

Veith joined the 7th Artillery Brigade of the Prussian Army as a gunner on December 6, 1836 , and attended the United Artillery and Engineering School from October 1837 to September 1839 . He was then appointed as an extra-secondary lieutenant artillery officer. For further training, Veith attended the General War School for three years from October 1843 . In 1849 he became adjutant in the VII Army Corps and was assigned to the topographic office in 1850/53. Promoted to Premier Lieutenant on June 22, 1852 , he joined the Combined Fortress Artillery Department on October 20, 1853. He was assigned to the General Staff on October 5, 1854 and transferred back to his main regiment on November 4, 1854, leaving this command. From May 19, 1855 to April 2, 1858, Veith was a captain in the General Staff of the V Army Corps and was then granted a patent from June 22, 1852 company commander in the Guards Artillery Regiment .

During the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War , Veith was in 1859 as a general staff officer in the mobile 4th Cavalry Division . On July 11, 1859, he was transferred to the General Staff while being promoted to major . He was aggregated to the General Staff on November 19, 1859, and assigned to January 10, 1860. In 1861/63 Veith also worked as a teacher at the War Academy. Promoted to lieutenant colonel , he moved to the troop service on June 25, 1864 when he was appointed commander of the 1st division of the Guards Artillery Regiment, and from September 1864 he was again a teacher at the War Academy and a member of the study commission of the artillery and engineering school. At the beginning of June 1865 he was released from teaching and appointed to the examination committee for prime lieutenants of the artillery as well as the study committee for the war schools and for the cadet corps . After being transferred to the General Staff of the Army, Veith was commissioned on February 6, 1866, initially with the management of a department head in the General Staff, and on April 3, he was appointed head of the department. In the same year he took part in the campaign against Bavaria as Chief of the General Staff of the II Reserve Corps during the German War and received the Grand Commander of the House Order of the Wendish Crown , the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order with Swords and the Order of Albrecht des Bears with swords. After he was released from his position, King Wilhelm I paid tribute to him on September 20, 1866 by awarding him the Crown Order, Second Class with Swords.

Veith was promoted to Colonel on December 31, 1866 with a patent dated October 30, 1866 , and in 1869 received the Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen and the Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown . For the duration of the mobile relationship on the occasion of the war against France he was Chief of the General Staff at the General Government in the area of ​​the I. , II. , IX. , and X. Army Corps under Infantry General Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein . On April 8, 1871, he returned to the General Staff as head of department and was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on June 16, 1871 .

Under position à la suite of the General Staff of the Army, he was transferred to Wroclaw on July 26, 1871 as commander of the 6th Artillery Brigade, and on August 18, 1871, he was promoted to major general. The award of the Red Eagle II. Class with oak leaves was Veith on October 16, 1873 Board of farewell granted and he on September 3, 1874 its board of disposition provided. He died on March 21, 1892 in Bonn.

The later General Field Marshal Moltke wrote in his assessment in 1869: “A prudent, dutiful officer, conscientious and thorough worker, calm, superior, endowed with tireless diligence, Colonel Veith is a reliable support for his superior. He would make a very good quartermaster general in an army command. Thorough knowledge of his weapon, practical experience which he has gathered in various service groups and, despite all his docility and modesty, an extremely capable and respectable personality, qualify him for every higher military position. In recent years, Colonel Veith has earned new merit through the training and correct treatment of all of the Saxon and South German officers in his department. I can give this excellent staff officer the best of praise in all respects. "

family

Veith married Adelheid Elten (1837–1925) on November 17, 1857 in Posen . The couple had several children:

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personal data
SURNAME Veith, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veith, Karl Johann (until 1871)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general and commander of the 6th field artillery brigade
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1892
Place of death Bonn