Max von Wedel

Max von Wedel (born October 10, 1850 in Sarranzig near Dramburg , Pomerania , † October 14, 1906 in Tehran ) was a Persian general and director general of the Persian post office.

Life

Max von Wedel was a son of Rittmeister Hermann Otto von Wedel (1817–1869) and Rosalinde Leschbrand (1826–1892). He had seven sisters and four younger brothers. Two of these brothers became generals: Hans Otto von Wedel (1861–1929) and Hasso Otto von Wedel (1863–1940). The other two, Kurt Otto von Wedel and Paul Hermann Otto von Wedel, emigrated to the United States.

Wedel attended high schools in Köslin and Berlin and took part in the Franco-German War. He was an officer in the Prussian Guard Fusilier Regiment before he joined the Austrian army and served there in the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment "Kaiser" No. 1 .

In 1882 he was one of the nine Austrian soldiers who were sent to Tehran by the Vienna Imperial War Ministry at the request of the Persian government to continue the army reform. In contrast to the Austro-Hungarian military mission in Persia agreed by Nāser ad-Din Shah in Vienna in 1878 , which had made substantial contributions to the reform of the Persian army by 1881, the contingent dispatched in 1882 was subject to Persian orders and was therefore much more limited in its scope of action.

Wedel was promoted to general and inspector of the guard. Then he left the army and became director general of the imperial post office. His grave is in the Protestant cemetery in Tehran.

literature

• Helmut Slaby: Bindenschild and Sun Lion. The history of the Austrian-Iranian relations up to the present . Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 1982, ISBN 3-201-01192-4 .