Maximilian von Giehrl

Franz Xaver Maximilian Giehrl , since 1893 Ritter von Giehrl (born October 11, 1840 in Vilseck , † December 16, 1896 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lieutenant general and chief of the army general staff .

Life

origin

Maximilian was the son of the district court doctor Franz Xaver Giehrl and his wife Josepha, née Oittner.

Military career

After visiting the Cadet Corps , Giehrl joined the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" of the Bavarian Army on August 16, 1858 as a Junker . With promotion to lieutenant , he was the following year in the genius - Regiment added and increased the end of May 1863 lieutenant in the local Genius Directorate of the fortress Ingolstadt on. From November 1867 Giehrl graduated from the War Academy and during this command he was transferred to the 1st genius directorate in Munich on January 1, 1868. Due to the mobilization on the occasion of the war against France , he completed his studies without appraisal and was assigned to the Quartermaster General for a special service from July 17 to December 24, 1870. In this capacity he took part in the battles at Weißenburg , Wörth and Sedan and was awarded the Knight's Cross, 2nd class of the Military Merit Order. During the siege of Paris , Giehrl was then promoted to Captain I. Class in the Quartermaster's Staff and used as a General Staff Officer in the 7th Infantry Brigade .

Awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class, he moved to the Central Office of the General Staff after the peace treaty in July 1871 and was with the 4th Infantry Brigade in France from October 1871 to August 1873, which was part of the occupation army . For two years taught Giehrl from March 1874, the military school initially tactics , then history of war and was from the beginning of May 1876 to end April 1878 Member of the line Commission in Munich. At the same time he was used from June to September 1876 as a company commander in the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" and rose to Major at the end of November 1876 . Under position à la suite of the General Staff of the Army, Giehrl was assigned to the War Ministry on March 22, 1878 for one year . During this time he also worked there as a member of the senior examination commission for the examination of candidates for the posts of the higher military administration service. In mid-April 1879 he was reassigned to the status of the General Staff and a few days later he was transferred to the 1st Division in Munich as General Staff Officer . At the same time he was a permanent member of the senior study and examination committee from December 1879 to November 1880. Subsequently, Giehrl resigned with the appointment as battalion commander in the 14th infantry regiment "Duke Karl Theodor" in the troop service and at the end of November 1882 advanced to lieutenant colonel . When he was reassigned to the General Staff of the Army on March 20, 1884, Giehrl became the first General Staff Officer at the General Command of the II Army Corps in Würzburg. On November 3, 1885, he returned to the Army General Staff as head of department, was repeatedly a member of the Higher Study and Examination Commission and, in a secondary function, from mid-December 1885 to early May 1886, head of the Army Museum . After his promotion to colonel , Giehrl was appointed chief of the general staff of the 1st Army Corps on May 5, 1886 . In this position he received the rank of brigade commander in March 1889, was promoted to major general in June 1889 and was awarded the Commander -in- Chief of the Order of Albrecht and Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown .

On March 6, 1890, Giehrl was transferred to Metz as commander of the Bavarian occupation brigade , from which the 10th Infantry Brigade was formed on October 1, 1890 . In this capacity, Prince Regent Luitpold awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on December 28, 1892 . With the award the elevation to the personal nobility was connected and he was allowed to call himself "Ritter von Giehrl" from February 24, 1893 after the entry in the nobility register .

From May 23, 1893 he was in command of the 2nd Infantry Brigade and at the beginning of August 1893 received the Crown Medal, 2nd class with a star. Giehrl was promoted to lieutenant general on January 15, 1895, and was appointed Chief of the Army General Staff and at the same time was entrusted with running the business as the inspector of the military educational institutions. Prince Regent Luitpold paid tribute to him in December 1895 by being awarded the Grand Commander's Cross of the Order of Military Merit. Giehrl died on December 16, 1896 in the course of his service.

family

Giehrl married Georgine Narciß, daughter of the Bavarian Major General Georg von Narciß , in Regensburg on April 15, 1872 . The marriage produced five sons and one daughter. His son Hermann (1877–1923) was also elevated to the personal nobility during the First World War as a major by being awarded the Military Max Joseph Order .

literature

• Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog. Volume I, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1897, pp. 107-108.
• Gundula Gahlen: The Bavarian officer corps 1815-1866. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77045-5 , pp. 656-657.
• Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 447.
• Johann Klarmann: List of officers of the Bavarian Engineer Corps 1744–1894. Munich 1896, pp. 157–158.
• Max Spindler (ed.), Walter Schärl: The composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806 to 1918. Michael Lassleben publishing house, Kallmütz / Opf. 1955, p. 253.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 2 of January 8, 1896, p. 30.