Otto von Etzel

Otto Franz Hermann Karl von Etzel (born May 17, 1860 in Naumburg ; † December 19, 1934 ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and military attaché .

Life

Otto was the son of Hermann von Etzel (1812–1883) and his wife Augusta, née Koch (1833–1875). His brother was the later general of the cavalry Günther von Etzel .

Etzel joined the Prussian Army around 1880 . As protégé of the chief of staff, he was sent to the German embassy in Washington DC in 1902 as major military attaché , where he was responsible for maintaining the German Reich's military-political relations with the United States . After his return to Germany, he was again a member of the Great General Staff and from March 22, 1910 to February 19, 1912, was the commander of the Leibgarde Infantry Regiment (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 115 .

During the First World War , from August 28, 1916, he commanded the 206th Division on the Western Front , which was first deployed on the Yser Front in Flanders and then on the Somme . In April 1917 his troops fought as part of the 7th Army in the Second Battle of the Aisne . In March 1918, Etzel's division took part during the spring offensive as part of the XXV. Reserve Corps took part in the breakthrough battle at St. Quentin . In June his troops were ready for the Gneisenau attack as a reserve of the 18th Army in the Tergnier area to advance to the Matz . Etzel was retired as Lieutenant General in 1919.

From his marriage to Margarete Friederike Ulrike Elise Mitzlaff (born July 21, 1878 in Berlin; † March 25, 1965 ibid) on November 25, 1912, two children, Joachim Franz Otto (born August 24, 1914 in Erfurt; † 23. February 1949 in Golubowka (Charkow), Ukraine) and Herbert Franz Hermann (born December 3, 1919 in Erfurt; † February 26, 2004 in Berlin).

Individual evidence

^ Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German armies 1815-1939. Volume 2: The staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as the hunter and machine gun battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio-Verlag. Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 . P. 296.
↑ Further first names and year of death according to the Lexikon der Generale , date of birth according to Genealogy Web.
^ "New German Attache at Washington," New York Times. November 26, 1902; "Baron von Sternburg Cannot Be Here," New York Times. May 15, 1905.

personal data
SURNAME	Etzel, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Etzel, Otto Franz Hermann Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian lieutenant general and military attaché
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naumburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 19, 1934
Place of death	Erfurt

[1] Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German armies 1815-1939. Volume 2: The staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as the hunter and machine gun battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio-Verlag. Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 . P. 296.

[2] Further first names and year of death according to the Lexikon der Generale , date of birth according to Genealogy Web.

[3] "New German Attache at Washington," New York Times. November 26, 1902; "Baron von Sternburg Cannot Be Here," New York Times. May 15, 1905.