Oskar Wilhelm Schuster
Oskar Wilhelm Schuster (born August 11, 1834 in Zwickau , † September 10, 1904 in Dresden ) was a Saxon major general .
Life
Schuster served in 1860 as a military instructor with the rank of lieutenant in the Dresden Cadet Corps . In 1861 he was promoted to lieutenant. As such, he participated in the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 , which earned him the award of the Austrian Military Merit Cross . Promoted to captain after that war, he took part in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71 , in which he distinguished himself several times.
As a major and battalion commander, he commanded the 8th Infantry Regiment No. 107 in Leipzig from 1878 to 1881 . After his promotion to lieutenant colonel in 1884 at the latest, he was transferred to the Zwickau garrison as battalion commander. Under the author's name K. S. Lieutenant Colonel O. Schuster , together with Friedrich August Francke, he published the three-volume work History of the Saxon Army from its Establishment to the Latest.
In the mid-1890s, Schuster was put up for disposition as major general; he moved to the Dresden area, where he owned the Villa Anna in Niederlößnitz from 1895 at the latest . He also lived in an apartment at Sedanstrasse 1 (today Hochschulstrasse ) in Dresden's Südvorstadt .
Schuster died a month after his 70th birthday and was buried in the cemetery in Langenhennersdorf near Pirna.
Works
- together with FA Francke: History of the Saxon Army from its establishment to the most recent times. 3 vols., Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884–1885 ( view of the works in the SLUB , DNB entry ).
- together with FA Francke: History of the Saxon Army from its establishment to the most recent times. 3 vols., Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884–1885 (reprint of the Leipzig edition: LTR-Verlag, Starnberg 1983, ISBN 3-88706-209-4 ).
Awards
- Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry
- Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit with war decoration
- Saxon service award cross
- Commander II. Class of the Bavarian Military Merit Order
- Order of the Red Eagle III. class
- Order of the Crown II class
- Iron Cross 2nd Class (1871)
- Knight's Cross 1st Class of the House Order of the White Falcon
- Commander II class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
Web links
- Oskar Wilhelm Schuster in the Stadtwiki Dresden.
- Literature by and about Oskar Wilhelm Schuster in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dresdener Geschichtsblätter, Volume 3, 1901–1904, p. 286 ( digital copy of the SLUB Dresden ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuster, Oskar Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuster, Oscar Wilhelm; Schuster, O. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1904 |
| Place of death | Dresden |