Maximilian Jungé
Maximilian Heinrich Jungé (born February 16, 1815 in Düsseldorf , † May 13, 1895 in Hanover ) was a Prussian major general and commander of the 1st field artillery brigade .
Life
origin
Maximilian was the son of the Dortmund businessman Karl Philipp Jungé and his wife Marie Margarethe, née Herrmann.
Military career
After attending grammar school in his hometown, Jungé joined the 4th Pioneer Department of the Prussian Army as a pioneer on March 1, 1832 and was commanded from October 1833 to September 1836 for further training at the United Artillery and Engineering School. In the meantime transferred to the 7th Artillery Brigade at his own request , he was appointed an extra-budget second lieutenant in mid-October 1835 and an artillery officer at the end of January 1837. On February 4, 1847, Jungé of the 1st Artillery Brigade was aggregated and recruited in mid-November 1847. As a prime lieutenant he was from April 1852 assistant to the artillery examination commission . After his promotion to captain , Jungé was commanded on June 1, 1855 as a director of the artillery examination commission and at the artillery and engineering school. With his appointment as battery chief , he resigned in the troop service on October 1, 1857, rose to major in mid-March 1863 and became an artillery officer from the square in Erfurt on February 10, 1864 . Left in this position, he was transferred to the 3rd and mid-March 1866 to the 4th Artillery Brigade at the beginning of July . With a patent dated October 30, 1866, Jungé was promoted to lieutenant colonel on December 31, 1866 and to commander of the III on August 22, 1868. Department in the Rhenish Field Artillery Regiment No. 8 appointed. This was followed on June 13, 1868 by his transfer as commander of the East Prussian Field Artillery Regiment No. 1 to Königsberg . In this position, promoted to colonel in mid-June 1869 , he led his regiment in 1870/71 in the war against France at Colombey , Servigny , Villers-l'Orme , before Metz , at Noisseville and Amiens .
Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , Jungé was briefly commander of the 5th Artillery Brigade in Poznan from April 30 to June 15, 1872 after the peace treaty under position à la suite of his regiment . He was then transferred with his uniform to the officers of the army and used until July 13, 1873 as commandant of Belfort in the occupied part of France . Jungé became major general on September 2, 1873 and was given command of the 1st Field Artillery Brigade stationed in Königsberg on January 6, 1874. With the award of the Red Eagle Order II. Class with Oak Leaves, he was put up for disposal on October 12, 1876 with a pension . He died on May 13, 1895 in Hanover.
family
Jungé married Emma Dalton (1835–1920), a daughter of the Offenbach merchant Lorenz Dalton (1783–1840) , on December 27, 1855 in Frankfurt am Main . The Protestant theologian Hermann Dalton (1833–1913) was her brother. The marriage resulted in Cäcilie (* 1856), Hermann (* 1858), Martha (* 1860), Sarah (* 1863), Olga (* 1864) and the later Prussian Major General Fritz Jungé (1865–1936).
literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , volume 9, p. 213, no. 2841.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jungé, Maximilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jungé, Maximilian Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian major general and commander of the 1st field artillery brigade |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1895 |
| Place of death | Hanover |