Otto Freiherr von Brandenstein

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Otto Freiherr von Brandenstein (born October 21, 1865 in Hohenstein near Friedland , † May 8, 1945 in Grambow ) was a German lieutenant general .

In 1885 he joined the Prussian Army in the 2nd Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 18 - Parchim, received training in the Great General Staff in 1900 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1913 . During the First World War he served on the Western Front as a staff officer under Generals Gustav von Hollen and Eberhard von Claer . He also led the Hessian Guard Dragoon Regiment . Colonel Brandenstein was appointed commander of a Detachement Brandenstein in 1918 , which landed on April 7th in Loviisa , Finland , as part of the German intervention in Finland from Reval . The brigade took part in the Finnish Civil War with 3000 men on the side of the Finnish whites. After the successful occupation of Lahti on April 19, the unit was assigned, with many losses, to the Baltic Naval Division under General Rüdiger von der Goltz .

Otto von Brandenstein received the order Pour le Mérite in March 1918 and was promoted to major general in October 1918 . In February 1919 he left the army. The von Brandenstein couple became involved in the Christian-German movement . On the commemoration day of the Battle of Tannenberg , August 27, 1939, he was characterized as Lieutenant General . On May 8, 1945, he was shot by Soviet soldiers with the secretary on his estate near Grambow and then buried in the cemetery of the village church in Unter Brüz .

Otto von Brandenstein was married to Elisabeth von Passow (* 1873 in Grambow, † 1959 in Malente ) since 1896. His parents were Hans Joachim von Brandenstein (* 1826 in Galenbeck , † 1906 in Niendorf ) and Minka geb. by Arnim . His older brother, Joachim von Brandenstein (lawyer) , was Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1924 to 1926 . Both were born on their father's estate Hohenstein near Friedland.

Fonts

  • The Guard Dragoon Regiment 1st Grand Ducal Hessian No. 23 , 1914–1919, Wittich 1931

literature

  • Weltzien, Wolf Lüdecke by: Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania , Vol. 1, Contributions to North German History, 1000 Years of Mecklenburg , Buch und Bild Verlag, Nagold 1989, p. 207

Single receipts

  1. Otto Freiherr von Brandenstein. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  2. Jorman maailma. Retrieved on May 10, 2020 (fin).
  3. ^ Finnish Civil War 1918 | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1). Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  4. Christoph Weiling: The "Christian-German Movement": a study on conservative Protestantism in the Weimar Republic . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, ISBN 978-3-525-55728-0 ( google.de [accessed on May 10, 2020]).