Louis Stoetzer

General of the Infantry Louis Stoetzer

Louis Stoetzer (born August 1, 1842 in Römhild , † April 17, 1906 in Metz ) was a Prussian infantry general and governor of the Metz fortress .

Life

origin

Louis was the son of forester Alexander Stoetzer († September 27, 1885 in Bad Salzungen ) and his wife Emilie, née Hildebrand († December 12, 1874 in Bad Salzungen).

Military career

Stoetzer attended secondary school in Meiningen and joined the Meiningen infantry regiment as a volunteer on April 17, 1861 . There he was promoted to second lieutenant on October 13, 1862 and served as a battalion adjutant from June 1, 1863. As such, he took part in the war against Prussia in 1866 .

After the defeat he was taken over as Prime Lieutenant in the Prussian Army on September 25, 1867 and assigned to Infantry Regiment No. 51 . On October 1, 1869, Stoetzer was sent to the Prussian War Academy . His training there was interrupted by the mobilization on the occasion of the Franco-Prussian War and Stoetzer took part in the siege of Paris with his regiment . On April 16, 1874 he was promoted to captain and appointed company commander. In December of the same year he was placed à la suite of the regiment and transferred to the Kassel War School as a teacher . Of 14 January 1879 to 31 March 1881 knew Stoetzer troops service as a company commander in the 2nd Baden Grenadier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm I." no. 110 , then came briefly into the Great General Staff and from there to the General Staff of the 29th Division displaced . There he was promoted to major on September 16, 1881 . As such, Stoetzer was from February 15, 1884 to September 22, 1886 in the General Staff of the XV. Army Corps . Then he was transferred back to the General Staff, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on August 10, 1888 , and appointed Chief of the 3rd Division for France and England on September 19, 1888. He also taught at the War Academy. In November 1890 he became a colonel and the following year he became commander of the 2nd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 32 . After three years he gave up the regiment and with his promotion to major general on June 16, 1894, he was appointed commander of the 31st Infantry Brigade in Trier . On April 1, 1898, Stoetzer then took over as Lieutenant General at the head of the 30th Division in Strasbourg . From here he was appointed governor of the strategically important fortress of Metz on May 3, 1901, and on May 18, 1901, he was awarded the Order of the Crown, First Class, for his many years of service. During the illness of the commanding general , the Hereditary Grand Duke of Baden , Stoetzer was commanded to represent him in the VIII Army Corps from August 8 to September 24, 1901 . On January 27, 1902, he received the rank of Commanding General. After his promotion to General of the Infantry on January 27, 1903, Stoetzer was appointed General of the XVI on May 18, 1903 . Army Corps appointed. In recognition of his services, Wilhelm II awarded him the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order with Oak Leaves on January 22, 1905 .

Stoetzer died of a heart attack on April 17, 1906 while doing his job .

family

Stoetzer married the French painter Therese Eugénie Carré (born June 1, 1860 in Strasbourg, † January 9, 1941 in Baden-Baden ) in Strasbourg on May 23, 1885 . She was a friend of Helene Freifrau von Heldburg , the third wife of Duke George II of Saxony-Meiningen . During the First World War , Therese Eugénie had the body of her deceased husband transferred to Meiningen in 1916 and buried in a tomb that was created according to her designs in the local cemetery. She also made portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Duke Georg II. Some of them are exhibited in Elisabethenburg Palace. Eugénie Thérèse Carré, was the sister of Albert Carré, "Administrateur général de la Comédie-Française" and "Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur". The Stoetzers remained childless.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 10, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1942], DNB 986919810 , pp. 72-75, no. 3087.