Kuno from Kameke

Kuno Paul Alexander Johann von Kameke , also Cuno (born March 7, 1847 in Breslau , † March 21, 1913 in Loschwitz ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

Kuno came from the old Pomeranian noble family Kameke . He was the son of the Prussian colonel and regimental commander Paul von Kameke (1814–1864) and his first wife Pauline, née Veit (1820–1848).

Kameke joined the Infantry Regiment No. 51 of the Prussian Army on April 18, 1865 from the Cadet Corps . There he was promoted to secondary lieutenant on July 12, 1866 and participated in the war against Austria in the same year .

As a colonel, Kameke was in command of the grenadier regiment "Graf Kleist von Nollendorf" (1st West Prussian) No. 6 in Posen from April 21, 1898 to January 17, 1901 . Then the disposition made and as commander of the military training area Hammerstein further used Kameke received on 7 July 1901 the character as a major general. On June 18, 1903 he was removed from his position and adopted into retirement.

Orders and decorations

• Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with a bow
• Order of the Crown II class
• Rescue medal on the ribbon
• Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
• Order of the Iron Crown II class

literature

• Paul Hermann von Zabiensky: Master list of the 1st Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 132 from 1881 to 1909. Printing house of the Straßburger Neuesten Nachrichten AG. Strasbourg 1908. pp. 37f.
• Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. 18th year, Verlag Reimer, Berlin 1913.
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A. Volume XXVII, p. 381, Volume 132 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0832-9 .
• Obituary in Deutsches Adelsblatt from 1913.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudolf Jaworski, Sophia Kemlein (ed.): Postcards tell history: the city of Poznan 1896-1918 . Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1997, p. 139 ( limited preview in Google book search)
2. ↑ Guido von Frobel : Military weekly paper . Volume 98, Part 2, ES Mittler & Sohn ,. Berlin 1913. ( limited preview in Google book search)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1903. p. 118.