Max von Diringshofen

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Max Alexander Paul Ludwig von Diringshofen (born December 14, 1855 in Arolsen , † October 8, 1936 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Max came from the originally bourgeois von Diringshofen family, who were raised to the hereditary knightly imperial nobility in 1649 . He was a member of the Sabow line, which had acquired this property in 1654. He was the third son of the later Prussian Lieutenant General Karl von Diringshofen (1817–1890) and his wife Ida Pauline, née Jentsch (1823–1901).

Military career

Like his older brother Ernst (1849–1911), he also chose the soldier profession. He joined the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 of the Prussian Army on April 19, 1873 , coming from the cadet corps as a second lieutenant . At the beginning of March 1880 he was transferred to the 5th Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 42 and from October 1880 to September 1883 he was assigned to the Potsdam NCO School . In the meantime Diringshofen was transferred to Infantry Regiment No. 132 in Glatz on April 1, 1881 and promoted to Prime Lieutenant on April 14, 1883 . He then graduated from the War Academy by June 1886 . From April 1, 1887 to March 22, 1889 he was assigned to the General Staff and then transferred here with promotion to captain .

Meanwhile, a colonel , Diringshofen became commander of the Leib Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm III." (1st Brandenburg) No. 8 in Frankfurt (Oder) on April 10, 1906 . From this position he received his departure in 1910.

At the beginning of the First World War he was reactivated and advanced to lieutenant general. From December 26, 1914 to June 18, 1916 he was in command of the 5th Reserve Division of III. Reserve Corps in the central sector of the Eastern Front . In 1914 his division was on the Rawka , in September 1915 on the Jasiolda and then in trench warfare on the Shchara .

After the war, again in retirement, he moved into the Villa von Diringshofen in Potsdam, built in 1912 , which he had to sell in 1929 due to financial collapse. He died in Potsdam on October 8, 1936.

family

Diringshofen was married three times. Only from the second marriage, concluded on June 9, 1892 in Hanover, with the wealthy industrialist daughter Margarete de Haen (1871–1915), two sons and two daughters emerged. His older son was the well-known professor of aerospace medicine Heinz von Diringshofen (1900–1967).

literature

  • Paul Hermann von Zabiensky: Stammliste of the 1st Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 132 from 1881 to 1909. Printing of the Strasbourg Latest News AG, Strasbourg 1908, p. 19.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Adelslexikon Volume II. CA Starke-Verlag. Limburg 1974, p. 494.
  2. ↑ List of officers of the Royal Prussian 3rd Guard Regiment on foot. From 1860 to 1910. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1910, p. 42.
  3. ↑ Weblink Diringshofen ancestors
  4. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Adelslexikon Volume II. CA Starke-Verlag. Limburg 1974, p. 187.
  5. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Adelslexikon Volume II. CA Starke-Verlag. Limburg 1974, p. 188.
personal data
SURNAME Diringshofen, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diringshofen, Max Alexander Paul Ludwig von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1936
Place of death Potsdam