Ludwig von Hartrott

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Ludwig Eugen Hartrott , von Hartrott since 1871 (born February 21, 1829 in Aschersleben , † March 24, 1910 in Ballenstedt ) was a Prussian general of the cavalry .

Life

origin

Ludwig was the eldest son of the reindeer Friedrich August Hartrott (1790–1873) and his wife Rosamunde, née Behse (1805–1883). His brother Emil (1832-1919) was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility in 1873 and ended his military career as a colonel and commander of the infantry regiment "Alt-Württemberg" (3rd Württembergisches) No. 121 .

Military career

After attending the secondary school in his hometown, Hartrott did his one-year service in the 10th Hussar Regiment of the Prussian Army from August 1848 and was released on August 21, 1849 as a non-commissioned officer in the reserve . When mobilizing in 1850, he was initially employed as a second lieutenant of the cavalry in the III. Battalion in the 27th Landwehr Regiment in Aschersleben. In August 1850 he was briefly assigned to the 10th Hussar Regiment and served from mid-November 1850 to mid-February 1851 with the mobile Landwehr squadron in the 27th Landwehr Regiment.

With effect from June 10, 1851 Hartrott entered the active employment relationship and was employed as a second lieutenant in the 8th Uhlan Regiment in Riesenburg . At the end of July 1853 he was promoted to regimental adjutant and officer in charge of the investigation. This was followed on March 27, 1858 by his command as adjutant of the 1st Cavalry Brigade to Königsberg . In this position he was promoted to Rittmeister until the end of June 1859 and was adjutant at the General Command of the 1st Army Corps during the mobile relationship on the occasion of the Sardinian War . On June 12, 1860 Hartrott was assigned to the War Ministry in Berlin and on October 6, 1860, under position à la suite of the 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment, he was appointed Adjutant to the War Minister von Roon . In his company, Hartrott took part in the war against Denmark in 1864. As a characterized major , he joined the War Minister's mobile staff before the start of the German War and on June 7, 1866, he was granted a patent for his rank and held a position à la suite of the War Ministry, in addition to his position as Adjutant to the Minister, as well as a member of the Remont Department . In the main headquarters he experienced the battle of Königgrätz and after the peace treaty he received the Crown Order III for his work at the beginning of October 1866 . Class with swords.

On June 12, 1867, Hartrott was entrusted with the management of the Central Department in the War Ministry, until two years later he was released from his position as Adjutant to the War Minister and entrusted with the management of the Central Department in the War Ministry. In mid-July 1870 he was appointed head of department and a few days later he became chief of the war minister's staff on the occasion of the war against France . In this capacity , promoted to lieutenant colonel at the end of the month , he worked in the Grand Headquarters at Gravelotte , Beaumont , Sedan and off Paris as well as at Malmaison and Mont Valérien . Awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, Hartrott was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on June 16, 1871 by Kaiser Wilhelm I after the Peace of Frankfurt .

On August 16, 1871, he was entrusted with the management of the business as head of Army Section B, promoted to colonel a year later and awarded the Iron Cross 1st class on January 19, 1873. With the appointment as director of the military economic department Hartrott became on April 1, 1876 President of the Oberexaminationskommission of the War Ministry and chairman member of the board of directors of the Great Military Orphanage in Potsdam. At the end of March 1877 he rose to major general and on September 18, 1880 received the star for the Order of the Crown, Second Class with Swords. He was appointed lieutenant general on December 12, 1882 and a member of the Council of State on June 11, 1884 . With the award of the Order of the Red Eagle First Class with Oak Leaves, he was put up for disposal with a pension on June 24, 1885 in approval of his resignation request .

On the occasion of his farewell, the Bavarian King Ludwig II honored him with the Grand Cross of his Order of Military Merit . On March 22, 1897, Kaiser Wilhelm II gave him the character of general of the cavalry. He died on March 24, 1910 in Ballenstedt am Harz.

family

Hartrott married on April 30, 1863 in Riesenburg Hulda Waegener (1839-1924), a daughter of the rentier Johann Wilhelm Waegener from Riesenburg. The couple had several children:

  • Viktor (1864–1913), Prussian lieutenant colonel ret. D. , from 1909 instructor of the Chilean army and major general ⚭ 1888 Maria von Berge (* 1869)
  • Martha (* 1866) ⚭ 1889 Werner Graf von Westarp (1853–1894), Prussian captain
  • Dagmar (* 1868) ⚭ 1889 Arnd von Leipziger (1858–1921), Prussian lieutenant general

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 98 of December 5, 1885, p. 1978.
  2. ^ Author of The German Influence in the Chelenian Army. In: German work in Chile. 1913, digitized
  3. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses. 1916. Year eighty-ninth, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1915, p. 1074 f.
  4. ^ Heinrich Erdmann Arnd von Leipziger . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Second volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1898, p. 394 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
personal data
SURNAME Hartrott, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartrott, Ludwig Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1910
Place of death Ballenstedt