Oskar love

Christian Oskar Liebe (born February 21, 1823 in Berlin ; † September 5, 1909 in Sorenbohm ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Oskar was the son of the Prussian major Christian Moritz Liebe (1774–1829) and his wife Friederike Wilhelmine, née Boyen (1787–1866). The later Prussian major general Christian Amynt Liebe (1816–1909) was his older brother.

Military career

Love visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . Subsequently, on August 9, 1840, he was transferred to the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a second lieutenant . From April 1843 to the end of March 1847 he was in command of the 1st Combined Reserve Battalion and from mid-April 1847 he was assigned to the cadet house in Kulm . Here Liebe worked first as an educator , then as a teacher , until he was finally released from this command on March 14, 1854. In May 1854 he was promoted to prime lieutenant and at the beginning of March 1856 was commanded as assistant to the head of department at the Cadet House in Potsdam. In position à la suite of his regiment, Liebe became captain and head of department at the cadet house in Bensberg on January 14, 1858 . In mid-May 1862, when he was appointed company commander in the 3rd Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 14, he returned to military service. On the occasion of the German War , Liebe was initially the leader of his regiment's replacement battalion. On July 18, 1866, he was commissioned to lead the 4th Battalion, which Liebe occupied Bayreuth and served as city ​​commander for some time .

After the peace agreement he was transferred as a major to the 7th Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 54 and in mid-December 1866 was appointed commander of the 1st battalion. In this position, love took part in the battles at Gravelotte and Villiers and the sieges of Metz and Paris in 1870/71 during the war against France . For a while, Liebe led the association after the two regimental commanders Hermann von Busse and Ferdinand von Rechenberg had died. Promoted to lieutenant colonel on the day of the imperial proclamation , he was appointed commander of the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 86 in Flensburg on October 12, 1872, awarded both classes of the Iron Cross . He rose to colonel on March 22, 1873 and was promoted to major general on November 12, 1878, commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade in Königsberg . In this position, Kaiser Wilhelm I awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle II in September 1879 with Oak Leaves. Although recommended for use as a division commander, Liebe retired as no position was available for the foreseeable future. Under awarding of the character as a lieutenant general is therefore presented him with the statutory board for disposition .

After his departure , Kaiser Wilhelm II honored him in 1896 with the Order of the Crown, 2nd class, with a star on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the storming of Vaux .

family

Love was married to Emma Marie Henriette Pfeffer (1828–1870) for the first time. After her untimely death, he married Marie Eugenie Sidone von Hackewitz (1814–1917) in Berlin on March 20, 1873 . The following children emerged from the marriages:

• Erika (* 1860)
• Hilmar (* 1862)
• Olga (* 1867)
• Marie (* 1869)
• Wanda (* 1874)
• Alfred Oskar Heinrich (1877–1914), killed as a captain in the Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm I." (2nd East Prussian) No. 3
• Kurt Heinrich Oskar (* 1879), captain in the infantry regiment "von Manstein" (Schleswigsches) No. 84

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 311-312, no. 2901.