Otto von Lüderitz

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Otto Wilhelm Heinrich von Lüderitz (born July 9, 1818 in Lüderitz , † August 29, 1885 in Bad Wildungen ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He was the son of Ludolf Friedrich von Lüderitz (born November 10, 1776 in Lüderitz; † July 4, 1843 ibid), captain a. D. and Herr auf Lüderitz, and his wife Dorothea Friederike Johanna, née von Barsewisch , widowed von Kleist (born April 9, 1784 in Vielbaum ; † October 16, 1855 in Lüderitz ). His brother was the later Prussian Lieutenant General Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Lüderitz (1814-1889).

Military career

Lüderitz attended high school in Magdeburg and the Berlin cadet house . Subsequently, on August 18, 1836, he was transferred to the 6th Cuirassier Regiment of the Prussian Army as a second lieutenant . For further training he completed the veterinary school and the general war school . Lüderitz was then a regimental adjutant until he was employed as an adjutant of the 5th Cavalry Brigade in Frankfurt (Oder) at the beginning of January 1848 . For the duration of the mobilization Lüderitz was in 1850/51 as a general staff officer in the 3rd Cavalry Division . With his promotion to prime lieutenant in June 1852 he became adjutant of the 5th division until Lüderitz returned to his regular regiment as a cavalry master in early August 1855 . After a command as a squadron leader in the 6th heavy Landwehr-Reiter-Regiment in Brandenburg an der Havel , he was transferred to the 1st cuirassier regiment in Breslau in mid-June 1858 and named chief of the 3rd squadron with a patent from February 5, 1855 . From October 1, 1860 to November 19, 1862 he was employed as an adjutant in the 6th Division . Then Lüderitz was awarded the character as Major squadron in 2nd Brandenburg Uhlans Regiment. 11 in Kyritz . In this position he received the patent for his rank in mid-March 1863 and in the following year he led his squadron in the war against Denmark in the battle near Niebüll , the assault on the Düppeler Schanzen and the transition to Alsen .

On April 18, 1865 Lüderitz became a regular staff officer in the Rhenish Uhlan Regiment No. 7 in Saarbrücken . In 1866 he took part in the battles near Münchengrätz and Königgrätz during the war against Austria . After the peace treaty , Lüderitz became commander of the newly formed Uhlan Regiment No. 14 in Münster on October 30, 1866 . In this position he was promoted to colonel by mid-June 1869 . He led his regiment during the war against France in 1870/71 in the battles at Colombey , Noisseville , Amiens , Hallue , Bapaume and Saint-Quentin as well as in the siege of Metz .

Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , Lüderitz was appointed commander of the 18th Cavalry Brigade in Altona on April 12, 1873 , and he rose to major general in early September of the same year . On December 11, 1879, he was promoted to Lieutenant General and was transferred to Flensburg as commander of the 18th division . In this position, Lüderitz received the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves, in mid-September 1881 . On May 10, 1883, due to illness, he was put up for disposition with the award of the Order of the Crown, 1st Class with the statutory pension . He died on August 29, 1885 in Bad Wildungen.

family

Lüderitz married Auguste Karbe (1828–1857) on June 8, 1850 in Frankfurt (Oder). After her untimely death, he married Stephanie Countess von Zedlitz-Trützschler (1830–1861) in Frauenhain on December 28, 1858 . Several children resulted from the marriages:

  • Ludolf Friedrich Albert (April 24, 1851 - April 30, 1886), Prussian captain
  • Julie Friedrike Sophie (* July 2, 1852; † February 22, 1885) ⚭ 1876 Emil von Stojentin († June 21, 1888), Prussian captain
  • Friedrich Julius Leopold Hermann (born March 9, 1855 - † September 26, 1911) ⚭ Marie Luise Wilhelmine Lucanus
  • Albertine Adelaide Henriette Marie (born May 20, 1857), superior
  • Frieda (* after 1858; † July 20, 1879)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels. Second volume, Verlag WT Bruer, Berlin 1898, p. 900.
personal data
SURNAME Lüderitz, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüderitz, Otto Wilhelm Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Luderitz
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1885
Place of death Bad Wildungen