Constance by Heineccius

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Konstanz Heineccius , since 1866 by Heineccius , (born September 26, 1859 in Berlin , † July 3, 1936 in Überlingen ) was a Prussian general of the artillery in the First World War .

Life

origin

His father was the Prussian Major General Benno von Heineccius , his grandfather was Lieutenant Colonel Konstanz von Heineccius, who was elevated to the Prussian nobility in 1866. His uncle was the Prussian major general Georg von Heineccius , his cousin Richard von Heineccius .

Military career

Heineccius became commander of the 36th Division on September 4, 1913 . At the beginning of the First World War , his division was part of the XVII deployed on the Eastern Front . Army Corps . The troops of the 36th Division fought under the commanding General von Mackensen in August 1914 in the Battle of Gumbinnen and in the Battle of Tannenberg . Between September 5 and 15, his troops took part in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes . In mid-October 1914, the division followed the German approach from the Opatow area to the Vistula . In November 1914, Lieutenant General Heineccius fought at Kutno and in the Battle of Lodz in the association of Günther von Pannewitz's corps . After the breakthrough at Przasnysz in July 1915, the 36th Division engaged in pursuit of the lower Narew .

After fighting near Wolkowysk , the division was transported to the Western Front at the end of September 1915 . In July 1916, the division wrestled in the Battle of the Somme . On August 31, 1916, Heineccius became the commanding general of General Command 53 , and from March 8, 1917, he led the XXV. Reserve Corps and was last commanding general of the VI from November 23, 1917 until the end of the war . Army Corps on the Northern Eastern Front . On 19 February 1918 his corps began as part of the 8th Army with the assumed 205th and 219th Division with the rise in Livonia to Soviet Russia to force the signing of the peace. In this position, Heineccius was promoted to general of the artillery on March 22, 1918.

family

He was married to Wanda Maria Irene Alexandrina Countess Arco , who died in Gdansk in 1919 . His brother-in-law was Georg Graf von Arco .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses B Volume IX, Volume 46 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1970, p. 198.
  2. ^ Reichsarchiv : Liberation of Livonia and Estonia. February 18 to March 5, 1918. edited by Major Hugo Kaupisch.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 114/115 of March 23, 1918, p. 2765.
  4. ^ Almanach de Gotha 2c
  5. ↑ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, 1892, p. 198 ( digitized )
  6. ↑ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses ( digitalisat ), p. 283
  7. ↑ denied
personal data
SURNAME Heineccius, Constance of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the artillery in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1936
Place of death Überlingen