Oskar von dem Hagen (General, 1848)

Oskar Leopold Robert von dem Hagen (born April 27, 1848 in Forsthaus Machlin near Frankfurt (Oder) , † July 10, 1916 in Dresden-Loschwitz ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

Oskar was a son of the Prussian forest master Justus von dem Hagen (1811–1866) and his wife Agnes, née Ewald (1821–1848).

Military career

Hagen attended the community school in Dommitzsch , from 1859 the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin and from 1861 to 1866 the secondary school in Halle (Saale) . After graduating he joined on 29 April 1867 as a cadet in the Rifle Battalion. 10 of the Prussian army in Goslar and advanced to early February 1869 second lieutenant . During the war against France in 1870/71 he took part in the battles at Vionville , Gravelotte , Ladonchamps , Beaune-la-Rolande and Le Mans , the siege of Metz and the battles at Maison-Rouge , La Maxe , Les Tapes, Ladon and Lorcy , Maizières , Neuville-aux-Bois , Cravant , Vendôme , Rilly , Montoire , La Chartre-sur-le-Loir and Chahaignes . For his work he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.

Due to a nervous condition, Hagen had to take a long vacation after the war. From April 1873 he was assigned to the rifle revision commission in Sömmerda for one year and from October 1874 he completed the war academy in Berlin for three years for further training .

In the meantime promoted to Prime Lieutenant, Hagen was assigned to the General Staff on May 1, 1878 , and transferred to the Guard Fusilier Regiment on June 18, 1878 while remaining in his command . Released from his command on April 29, 1879 with a patent from July 14, 1876, he was transferred to Oels in the 2nd Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 6 . Due to illness, Hagen was on leave from mid-February 1880 to the end of March 1881 under position à la suite . After his recovery he was promoted to redundant captain in mid-September 1882 and on December 12, 1882, under position à la suite of his battalion as a teacher at the war school in Hanover .

This was followed by assignments from mid-January 1888 to mid-April 1889 in the Hessian Jäger Battalion No. 11 and then in the 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment No. 111 as a company commander . With his promotion to major , Hagen was aggregated into his regiment on December 17, 1891, and transferred to the 5th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 113 on April 18, 1893 . From July 25, 1893 to June 14, 1898, he was in command of the 2nd Battalion and was then transferred to the Infantry Regiment No. 131 in Metz as a lieutenant colonel and regular staff officer .

On August 18, 1900, he was promoted to colonel and appointed commander of the 99th Infantry Regiment . Hagen fell seriously ill again and, from February 17, 1903, took a three-month vacation to Lugano and Baden-Baden to restore his health . Two months later, on April 18, 1903, he was put up for disposition with the character of major general and the statutory pension . On January 19, 1909, he received his parting with the previous pension. He died on July 10, 1916 in Dresden-Loschwitz.

family

Hagen married Johanna Holst (1857–1908) on March 22, 1882 in Lugano, with whom he had four children. After her death, he married Friederike Elisabeth Julie Freiin von Kleist (* 1865) on October 21, 1909 .

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , Volume 9, pp. 250-251, No. 2862.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). 1908. Ninth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 273.
• Hübner: Officer master list of the 2nd Upper Rhine Infantry Regiment No. 99. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1906, p. 91.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sons -in-law of the von Kleist family . Public pedigree of the family association derer v. Kleist e. V. (Hamm), accessed March 7, 2020.