List of governors of Mainz Fortress
This list of the governors of the fortress Mainz contains the military governors at the time of the federal fortress and imperial fortress.
Federal fortress
After the Congress of Vienna , Mainz became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1816 , which signed a state treaty with Prussia and Austria. The city of Mainz itself remained in Hessian ownership, while the Mainz fortress was to be administered equally by Prussia and Austria . In 1820 the German Federal Assembly decided to take over the fortifications as a federal fortress . Organizationally, the fortress was controlled by the fortress government, which was subordinate to a military commission, which was responsible to the military committee of the Bundestag. The fortress government consisted of a governor and a vice-governor, who were appointed alternately every five years by Prussia or Austria.
- Johann Maria Philipp Frimont von Palota became governor of Mainz after the first peace in Paris
- Karl von Österreich-Teschen was governor of the fortress from 1815 and there met his wife Princess Henriette von Nassau-Weilburg .
- Ferdinand Friedrich von Württemberg , governor from 1829 to 1834
- Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851), was governor from 1824 to 1829, and again from 1834–1839; Uncle of the later Kaiser Wilhelm I.
- Philipp August Friedrich von Hessen-Homburg , became governor of the federal fortress of Mainz in 1840
- Viktor zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen , Vice-Governor of the Federal Fortress of Mainz (1844)
- Heinrich von Hüser , governor 1848–1849
- Archduke Albrecht , governor 1849–1851
- Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , who later became Kaiser Wilhelm I, also became Colonel General of the Infantry in 1854 with the rank of Field Marshal and Governor of the Mainz Fortress. However, residence in Koblenz .
- Heinrich von Reitzenstein (1796–1865), Lieutenant General, 1858–1859 Vice Governor
- Alfred I. zu Windisch-Graetz became the commandant of the federal fortress and governor in Mainz in 1859
- Wilhelm of Austria became governor in 1862
- Prince Karl of Prussia , governor from 1864 to 1866
- Franz Xaver von Paumgartten from 1859 to 1864 for the Austrian part of the garrison lieutenant governor of the fortress
Mainz as a fortress of the German Empire 1870 / 71–1918
Governors of the Imperial Fortress :
- Woldemar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg , (1866–1871)
- General of the Infantry Leopold Hermann von Boyen , (1871–1876)
- Lieutenant General / General of the Infantry Gustav von Pritzelwitz , (1875–1880)
- General of the Infantry Wilhelm von Woyna , (1880–1886)
- Lieutenant General Karl von Schlippenbach , (1886–1887)
- General of the cavalry Hugo von Winterfeld , (1887–1888)
- Lieutenant General / General of the Infantry Rudolf Otto von Reibnitz , (1888-1892)
- Lieutenant General Max von der Planitz , (1892-1893)
- General of the Infantry Albert von Holleben , (1893–1898)
- General of the Infantry Paul von Collas , (1898–1903)
- Lieutenant General Friedrich von Schele , (1903-1904)
- General of the Infantry von Voigt, (1904–1908)
- General of the Infantry Konrad Ernst von Goßler , (1908–1911)
- Lieutenant General Arthur von Schlieffen , (1911–1914)
- General of the Infantry Hugo von Kathen , (1914)
literature
- Alfred Börckel : Mainz as a fortress and garrison from Roman times to the present. Published by J. Diemer, Mainz 1913.