Oskar Bogun von Wangenheim

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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Oskar Bogun von Wangenheim (born March 22, 1830 in Jülich , † January 31, 1885 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the 9th division .

Life

origin

Oskar Bogun von Wangenheim was the eldest son of the Prussian Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bogun von Wangenheim (1797–1865) and his first wife Mathilde, née von Bülow (1807–1851).

Military career

After visiting the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin , Wangenheim was aggregated on April 22, 1847 as Second Lieutenant of the 1st Engineer Inspection of the Prussian Army and assigned to the Guard Pioneer Department with a patent from September 11, 1847 . For further training, he completed the United Artillery and Engineering School from October 1847 to June 1849 and returned to the Guards Pioneer Department at the end of August 1849. When he was assigned to the 1st engineer inspection, Wangenheim became adjutant of the guards pioneer department on November 12, 1850 and from the beginning of April 1852 was commanded first for fortification to Kolberg , then to Stettin and finally to Königsberg . On May 24, 1854 he was appointed adjutant of the 1st Fortress Inspection in Danzig and in mid-February 1856 he was promoted to prime lieutenant . In the same capacity, Wangenheim was at the 7th fortress inspection in Berlin from mid-June 1856 and on March 25, 1858 he became adjutant of the general inspection of the engineering corps and the fortresses . After he was promoted to captain at the end of May , he was employed from the end of July 1860 to the beginning of April 1861 as adjutant of the 2nd General Inspectorate of the fortresses. Then Wangenheim returned to the troop service as commander of the 4th Company in the Guard Pioneer Battalion. Under position à la suite of the 1st engineer inspection, he was assigned to the War Ministry in the Department of Engineering Affairs on June 11, 1864 and transferred here at the end of June. Bogun advanced to major at the end of March 1866 , was appointed commander of the Guards Pioneer Battalion on June 17, 1867 and from July 1867 was also a member of the examination committee for captains and first lieutenants of the engineering corps .

As a lieutenant colonel , Wangenheim and his battalion took part in the fighting at Gravelotte , Beaumont and Sedan during the war against France , until on October 8, 1870, he was commissioned to lead the engineer troops destined for the attack on the north side of Paris . In this position he also took part in the battle at Le Bourget . During the siege of Montmédy on December 11, 1870, Wangenheim was aggregated to the Emperor Franz Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 2 for the further duration of the mobile relationship and commissioned with its leadership.

Awarded the Iron Cross II class, he was appointed regimental commander after the peace treaty on June 17, 1871. In mid-August he became a colonel and on September 4, 1871 he was accepted as a knight of honor in the Order of St. John . On July 3, 1875, he was ordered to accompany the German Crown Prince Friedrich to the funeral of Emperor Ferdinand I in Vienna . Under position à la suite, he was commissioned to lead the 11th Infantry Brigade in Brandenburg an der Havel on October 28, 1875 , appointed brigade commander on May 18, 1876 and promoted to major general at the end of May 1876. On September 18, 1880, Wangenheim received the Crown Order II. Class with a star. He was appointed commander of the 9th division in Glogau on June 11, 1882 and at the same time promoted to lieutenant general. In mid-September 1882, Emperor Wilhelm I honored him with the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves, and on June 24, 1884, he was appointed a legal knight of the Order of St. John.

Due to an intestinal fistula , Wangenheim had to undergo an operation in Berlin, in the course of which he died. On February 3, 1885, he was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Wangenheim married on August 31, 1856 in Danzig Klara Schach von Wittenau (1830–1861), a daughter of Major General Albert Schach von Wittenau . After her death, on October 2, 1865 in Koblenz , he married Maria Kehrmann (1841-1919), a daughter of the businessman Friedrich Kehrmann. Several children resulted from the marriages:

  • NN (* / † 1861)
  • Mathilde (1866-1946)
⚭ 1889 (divorced 1904) Moritz von Carstanjen (1860–1916), master of Theißenhof, Buscherhof and Paulshof
⚭ 1905 Hans Georg von Elpons (1865–1933), Imperial German District Administrator
  • Oskar (1868–1914), Prussian major ⚭ 1899 Dorothea von Brause (* 1879)
  • Fritz (1870–1874)
  • Maria (1873–1936) ⚭ Karl Windecker (1862–1933), Colonel a. D.
  • Elsa

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1913. Eleventh year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1912, p. 139.
  2. ↑ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. Volume 2, Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1893, p. 212.
  3. ↑ History of the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1911, Appendix p. 125, No. 600.
personal data
SURNAME Bogun von Wangenheim, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bogun von Wangenheim, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the 9th division
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Jülich
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1885
Place of death Berlin