Maximilian von Mutius

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Johannes Heinrich Maximilian (Max) von Mutius (born January 27, 1865 in Berlin , † January 30, 1942 in Gellenau , district of Glatz ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

His parents were Hans Franz Adolf Siegismund von Mutius (born August 13, 1825 - March 26, 1883) and his wife Eleonore Emilie Gerta von Bethmann Hollweg (born August 14, 1831), a daughter of the politician Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg . His brother was the diplomat Gerhard von Mutius . One of his cousins ​​was Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg .

In 1902 Mutius was sent to the German embassy in Bucharest as a military attaché , where he was responsible for maintaining the military-political relations between the German Empire and Romania until 1904 . He then had the same task in relation to France as a military attaché of the German Empire in Paris .

From 1910 to 1915 Mutius served as Wilhelm II's wing adjutant in the immediate vicinity of the German emperor. Furthermore, as a lieutenant colonel, he was given command of the guard company of the Berlin City Palace . During the First World War , Mutius was first as a colonel and later as major general from December 15, 1917 beyond the end of the war until February 21, 1919, commander of the 6th Division .

During the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era , Mutius lived in seclusion at the family palace in Gellenau.

Mutius' estate is now in the Federal Archives in Freiburg. It contains his previously unprinted memoirs from 1865-1918 , some of which were used by historians such as Holger Afflerbach in other works .

literature

  • Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, Volume 2, 1893, page 443

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of Noble Houses B Volume II, Volume 12 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1956, p. 257.
  2. ^ Isabel V. Hull : The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II. 1888-1918. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2004, ISBN 0-521-53321-X , p. 24.
  3. ↑ Leonidas E. Hill (Ed.): Weizsäcker Papers. 1900-1932. Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-549-07625-8 , p. 477.
  4. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 98.
  5. ^ Fritz Fischer : Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg and Protestantism. (Religion, legal and state thought). Ebering, Berlin 1938 ( historical studies 338, ZDB -ID 514152-7 ), (also: Berlin, Phil. Diss., 1938), p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Mutius, Maximilian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mutius, Johannes Heinrich Maximilian von (full name); Mutius, Max von (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general, military attaché
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1942
Place of death Gellenau , district of Glatz