Oskar von Zoller

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Lieutenant General Oskar von Zoller
The so-called Zoller memorial stone at the place of his death

Oskar Freiherr von Zoller (born November 13, 1809 in Straubing , † July 10, 1866 in Winkels ) was a Bavarian lieutenant general .

Life

He was the son of Lieutenant General Friedrich Freiherr von Zoller (1762-1821), who was enrolled in the Bavarian baron class in 1816 . In 1827 Zoller joined the Bavarian Army as a Junker with the Infantry Leib Regiment in Munich , was promoted to officer in 1828 and captain in 1842 . As a first lieutenant , Zoller had accompanied the future King Maximilian II on a trip to Greece as an orderly officer in 1840/41 ; According to the army order of January 3, 1842, he received the Knight's Cross in Silver, of the Greek Order of Redeemer . Then King Ludwig I appointed him to his wing adjutant . He later became court marshal to the crown prince and later king Maximilian II , who also appointed him his adjutant wing after taking over the government.

In 1850 he returned to the troop service and moved as a lieutenant colonel to the 3rd Infantry Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria" in Augsburg , where he became commander in 1853. Two years later, Zoller took command of the 7th Infantry Brigade in Bayreuth as Major General . As such he received the Prussian Red Eagle Order II. Class in 1860 and in 1861 advanced to Lieutenant General and Commander General of Nuremberg .

When the German War broke out , he became General Commander of the 3rd Infantry Division . In this command he was killed in the Battle of Kissingen in the village of Winkels near Kissingen, hit by shrapnel after two horses had been shot under him. Four months later, on November 28, 1866 , King Ludwig II was shown the place where Zoller had fallen during a visit to Kissingen in the village of Winkels, and then drove to Nüdlingen , where Zoller's body had been laid out in the rectory. Ludwig's mother, Marie von Bayern , had previously been in Kissingen, had also visited the rectory in Nüdlingen and then ordered a Zoller memorial stone from the sculptor Michael Arnold in memory of Zoller .

In the course of the German war, Zoller is said to have asked the commander-in-chief of the southern German troops, Prince Karl of Bavaria , to relieve the Hanoverians, whereupon he is said to have been sentenced to three days' arrest. The Bavarian War Ministry later contradicted this statement.

Zoller remained unmarried throughout his life.

In 1901, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria approved a “Freiherr Oskar von Zoller Foundation”, which has made it its business to support war veterans.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, p. 566. Volume 137 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0837-X .
  2. ↑ The Bavarian Landlady. No. 150 of December 15, 1840. Scan from the source
  3. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Bavarian War Ministry. No. 9 of August 2, 1855. P. 52 of the year. Scan from the source
  4. ^ Government Gazette of the Kingdom of Bavaria. No. 6 of February 5, 1861.
  5. ^ Government Gazette of the Kingdom of Bavaria. No. 14 of April 3, 1861.
  6. ^ History of the Royal Bavarian 15th Infantry Regiment "King John of Saxony". 1867, supplement II ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ The federal campaign in 1866. 4th edition, Verlag CW Hochhausen, Wenigen-Jena 1866. P. 45. ( digitized version )
  8. ↑ Peter Ziegler: Celebrities on promenade paths. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-87717-809-X . P. 45.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Menzel: The German War in 1866. Volume 1. P. 27. ( digitized version )
  10. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Royal Bavarian War Ministry. 1901, p. 271. ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Zoller, Oskar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zoller, Oskar Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1866
Place of death Bad Kissingen