Kurt von Sperling

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Kurt von Sperling (born February 18, 1850 in Cologne , † August 31, 1914 in Breslau ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

He was the eldest son of the Prussian major general Oskar von Sperling (1814–1872) and his wife Pauline Marie Albertine von Klaß (1824–1899). One of the couple's daughters, Gertrud (1860–1921), married Paul von Hindenburg, who later became General Field Marshal and Reich President, in Stettin on September 24th .

Military career

Coming from the Cadet Corps , Sperling was transferred to the 3rd Guard Grenadier Regiment Queen Elisabeth of the Prussian Army on April 7, 1868 . During the war against France , he was slightly wounded in the battle of Gravelotte by a shot in the right leg. In the further course of the war, Sperling took part in the siege of Paris and suffered a serious wound near Aulnay from a shot in the left chest. Awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, he was adjutant of the Fusilier Battalion from September 1873 to the end of April 1874 . As Prime Lieutenant , Sperling graduated from the War Academy in 1877/80 and was assigned to the General Staff for one year in May 1881 . In mid-April 1882 he was promoted to captain and in mid-August 1882 was transferred as a teacher to the war school in Metz under position à la suite of his regiment .

At the beginning of September 1887, Sperling returned to the troop service and worked as a company commander in the 3rd Guards Regiment until May 21, 1889 on foot . He was then promoted to major in the Great General Staff. Shortly thereafter, he was transferred to the General Staff of the IV Army Corps , before returning to the General Staff in June 1890. On July 1, 1890, he was assigned to the War Ministry and transferred to the Ministry on September 20, 1890. This was followed by a three-year assignment as a battalion commander in the 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74 on October 18, 1891 . Sperling was then the staff of the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment. 39 were added and by March 1897, Colonel promoted. As such, from April 17, 1897 to April 17, 1901, he was in command of the infantry regiment "Herzog von Holstein" (Holsteinisches) No. 85 . With promotion to major general , he commanded the 37th Infantry Brigade until April 30, 1904 . Subsequently commissioned with the leadership of the 14th division in Düsseldorf , Sperling was appointed on October 19, 1904 as a lieutenant general commander of this large association . From April 26, 1907 until he was passed in April 1911, he served as military governor of Cologne. In this position, Sperling received the character of General of the Infantry on March 5, 1908 . He stood à la suite of the Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3 in Charlottenburg .

During the First World War he served as the commanding general of the Deputy General Command of the VI. Army Corps . Sperling died in this capacity on August 31, 1914.

family

On October 2, 1875 he married Klara von Schmieden (1855–1926), the daughter of the Prussian captain Adolph von Schmieden (1822–1867) and Auguste Kuschke (1832–1901). Through the marriage that took place on the Möglin manor , his mother-in-law's country estate, he became the brother-in-law of the later General Paul von Collas , who married Klara's sister Ottilie just a month later in November 1875. Sperling's brother Erich married in 1882 on Möglin Martha von Schmieden, another sister of Sperling's wife.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Schlegel: Cologne and his Prussian soldiers. The history of the garrison and fortress. 1979, p. 170.
personal data
SURNAME Sperling, Kurt von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry, military governor of the city of Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1914
Place of death Wroclaw