Maximilian Vogel von Falckenstein

Maximilian Eduard August Hannibal Kunz Sigismund Vogel von Falckenstein (born April 29, 1839 in Berlin ; † December 7, 1917 at Dolzig Castle , Sorau (Lausitz) district ) was a Prussian infantry general and politician.

Life

origin

Maximilian was the son of the landowner and Prussian infantry general Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797–1885), Governor General of the German coastal regions in Hanover , and his wife Luise Gärtner (1813–1892).

Military career

He joined the Prussian Army in 1855 , became a captain in the General Staff in 1871 and a teacher at the War Academy in 1881 . In 1888 he was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the 2nd Guard Infantry Brigade . In 1889 he became director of the General War Department in the War Ministry . In October 1891 he was appointed lieutenant general and commander of the 5th division in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1896 he finally became General of the Infantry and Commanding General of the VIII Army Corps in Koblenz as well as Chief of the Engineer and Pioneer Corps . With the approval of his resignation request, he was put up for disposition on May 24, 1898 with the simultaneous appointment as head of the 2nd Alsatian Pioneer Battalion No. 19 with the statutory pension .

Vogel von Falkenstein was inheriting commissioner on the 1,000 hectare large castle Dolzig and from 1907 until his death a member of the Prussian manor .

family

Vogel von Falckenstein married Marie Freiin von Stoltzenberg (1842–1915) on September 3, 1862 in Koblenz .

Awards

• 1884 Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch. Part B 1928, p. 678. Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1928.

Web links

• Acta Borussica Volume 8 / I (1890-1900) (PDF file; 2.72 MB)
• Acta Borussica Volume 8 / II (1890-1900) (PDF file; 2.19 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 49 of May 28, 1898, p. 1336.
2. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1907, p. 52.