Otto Ramdohr

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Georg Otto Ramdohr (born February 25, 1857 in Aschersleben , † August 14, 1928 in Ratzeburg ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

Otto was a son of the factory owner Ludwig Gottlieb Ramdohr (1830-1894) and his wife Emilie Therese, née Walkhoff (1831-1872) from Aschersleben. His uncle was Gustav Adolf Ramdohr, the grandfather of Lilo Ramdohr .

Military career

Ramdohr initially studied at the University of Halle and was a member of the Corps Borussia there . On March 17, 1878, as a three-year-old volunteer, he joined the 3rd Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment (Leib-Regiment) No. 117 of the Prussian Army in Mainz and was promoted to secondary lieutenant until mid-October 1879 . As a prime lieutenant , he graduated from the War Academy in Berlin for three years from October 1889 for further training . From April 1, 1893, Ramdohr was ordered to serve with the Great General Staff for one year . He was released from this command on September 14, 1893 and was transferred to Cologne as a company commander in the 5th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 65 while at the same time being promoted to captain . In position à la suite of his regiment, he was transferred to the officers assigned to the General Staff on March 22, 1900, and on March 23, 1901, while leaving the regiment à la suite, he was appointed railway line commissioner in Hanover . In this position Ramdohr rose to major at the end of January 1904 . With the appointment as commander of the III. Battalion in the infantry regiment "Herwath von Bittenfeld" (1st Westphalian) No. 13 in Münster , he returned to service on February 19, 1910 and on March 20, 1911 was promoted to lieutenant colonel . In approval of his resignation request , Ramdohr was put up for disposition on April 22, 1912 with the statutory pension and permission to wear his regimental uniform.

At the same time he was assigned to serve with the staff of the 11th Gendarmerie Brigade in Kassel and on May 4, 1912, he was appointed a brigadier of this brigade with the character of a colonel . The patent for his rank was awarded to Ramdohr on April 22, 1914. During the First World War he took over the 7th Gendarmerie Brigade in Münster . On October 15, 1918, Ramdohr was retired from the service as major general.

He spent his retirement on his estate in Ratzeburg .

family

Ramdohr was married to Antonie Kammerist. According to the records of his cousin's daughter, Lilo Ramdohr, who occasionally visited the estate in Ratzeburg with her brother around 1931, Ramdohr left behind his now disabled widow, his daughter named Lotte, who ran the estate as an agricultural economist, and the son Hans-Otto, forest economist, who was killed in the course of events of the Röhm putsch in 1934 .

literature

  • Julius von Basse, Karl von Kleinsorgen: Tribe list of the infantry regiment Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1st Westphalian) No. 13th Chr. Belser, Stuttgart 1914, pp. 306–307.
  • Ludwig Gottlieb Ramdohr: Stamm-Tafeln of the families Ramdohr. Manuscript, Gotha 1893, entry number 56.
  • Lilo Fürst-Ramdohr: Friendships in the White Rose. Verlag ePupli.de, Munich 2012, 2nd exp. Edition, ISBN 3-931231-00-3 .
  • August Keim: History of the infantry body regiment Grand Duchess (3rd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 117 and its tribes 1677–1902. Verlag A. Bath, Berlin 1903, p. 131.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 53 of April 25, 1912, p. 1170.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 57/58 of April 26, 1914, p. 1245.
  3. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 49 of October 22, 1918, p. 807.
personal data
SURNAME Ramdohr, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramdohr, Otto Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1928
Place of death Ratzeburg