Otto von Lauenstein

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Otto Ernst August Anton Hermann Lauenstein , from 1908 von Lauenstein (born February 1, 1857 in Lüneburg , † October 3, 1916 in Düsseldorf ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and leader of the XXXIX. Reserve Corps in the First World War .

Life

origin

Otto was a son of the politician of the same name Otto Lauenstein (1829-1902) and his wife Ottilie, nee Illing (1828-1914).

Military career

After Lauenstein had graduated from the Lüneburg High School, he joined the 2nd Brandenburg Field Artillery Regiment No. 18 ("General Feldzeugmeister") of the Prussian Army in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1876 . On October 17, 1876 he was promoted to Second Lieutenant , on March 22, 1887 to Prime Lieutenant and on October 14, 1890 to captain . From 1892 to 1900 he went to Saint Petersburg as a military attaché , and on September 1, 1896 he rose to major . On August 12, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion , he was commanded as a staff officer in the expeditionary force under Count von Waldersee .

On October 18, 1901, he took command of the Vorpommersche Feldartillerie-Regiment No. 38 in Stettin and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 22, 1903 . From April 24, 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, he served as the Prussian military plenipotentiary in the Russian East Asian Army in Manchuria .

In 1905 he became head of department in the Great General Staff in Berlin. On February 13, 1906, he was made colonel and joined the headquarters of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a wing adjutant for the next four years . On January 27, 1908, Lauenstein was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility . On March 22, 1910 he was promoted to major general and on May 3, 1910 he took over command of the 38th Infantry Brigade in Hanover . At the end of January 1911 he served again for eight months as the Prussian military representative at the imperial court in St. Petersburg. On September 13, 1911 he became Chief of the General Staff of the VI. Army Corps in Wroclaw . On October 1, 1912 he was promoted to Lieutenant General and took over command of the 14th Division in Düsseldorf as the successor to General Dedo von Schenck .

At the beginning of the First World War, Lauenstein was assigned to the 2nd Army under Colonel General Karl von Bülow as Chief of Staff on August 2, 1914 . He took part on the western front in the invasion of neutral Belgium, and organized the troop movements in the battle of the Sambre , at St. Quentin and the advance to the Marne . On December 24, 1914, he became leader of the newly established XXXIX. Reserve Corps ( 77th and 78th Reserve Divisions ) in East Prussia . During the winter battle of the Masuria he was subordinate to General Hermann von Eichhorn's 10th Army and stood in the Lötzen area . In April 1915 Lauenstein became commander-in-chief of the army group "Lauenstein" - initially consisting of the 78th Reserve Division of the 10th Army , the 6th Reserve Division of the 9th Army , the Landwehr Department " Pappritz " and the higher cavalry Command under Manfred von Richthofen with the Bavarian , as well as the 3rd and 6th Cavalry Division . Lauenstein's army group advanced via Schaulen to the east and was able to take Libau together with naval units by May 8, 1915 , but was then pushed into defense by Russian counterattacks from the Mitau area on the Dubissa . After securing his left flank, his army group advanced with the 6th , 36th and 78th Reserve Divisions via Mitau to Courland at the end of August 1915 .

The newly added 88th Division , the combined division " Beckmann ", and the short-term subordinate I. Reserve Corps under General Kurt von Morgen led the advance on Dünaburg in mid-September . To protect Riga , the Russian northern front was significantly strengthened under General Russki , and on the Dune Line the front froze again into positional warfare . For health reasons, Lauenstein had to give up his command on July 7, 1916 and died a few months later in Düsseldorf.

He was a member of the Paleontological Society since 1913 .

family

Lauenstein married Martha Meyer (1881–1964), daughter of the businessman Carl Eduard Meyer, in Bremen on September 29, 1903. The marriage resulted in the five children Otto (* 1906), Carla (* 1908), Ilse (1908–1992), Erwin (1911–1947) and Kurt (1912–1937).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paleontological Journal. Issue 1, March 1914.
  2. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1917. Eleventh year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1916, p. 509.
personal data
SURNAME Lauenstein, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauenstein, Otto Ernst August Anton Hermann von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and leader of the XXXIX. Reserve Corps in World War I.
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1916
Place of death Dusseldorf