Otto von der Betten (Lieutenant General)

Otto von der Betten with his wife Ella

Left: Field Marshal August von Mackensen Right: Lieutenant General Otto von der Betten in Dresden in 1931 at the Weapons Day of the German Cavalry.

Otto Hermann Theodor von der Betten (born August 17, 1858 in Verden , † July 28, 1937 in Dresden ) was a Saxon lieutenant general .

Life

family

Otto was the son of Colonel Friedrich von der Betten and Emilie von Plate. In 1892 he married Ella Freiin von der Betten called von Offen (* 1870 in Vienna, † 1937 in Dresden) in Dresden. Her son died a few hours after he was born in 1893. Blankets died in Dresden in 1937 in the Weißer Hirsch district , where he had acquired a villa at Broizemstrasse 3.

Military career

Blankets embarked on an officer career in the Saxon Army . At the beginning of the First World War , as major general, he was in command of 1st Cavalry Brigade No. 23. After initial fighting in Lorraine , his brigade was relocated to East Prussia at the end of August 1914 , where it initially took part in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes . Subsequently, in front of the left wing of the 9th Army, it made the rapid advance into Poland into Warsaw . On September 28th, ceiling received the order to destroy the railways leading from Warsaw to Piotrkow and Lodz . This task could be successfully completed on September 30, 1914, for which ceiling was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry on November 7, 1914 .

In the further course of the war, from August 1, 1916 to September 1917, he was in command of the 8th Cavalry Division , which was superior to his brigade , and with which he was deployed on the Eastern Front . At the end of August 1917, on the orders of the High Command of the 8th Army ,decks formed the “North” cavalry division, which existed until October 25, 1917. As the leader of this troop, ceiling was able to prove himself particularly well on the Daugava front , for which he was appointed by King Friedrich August III on October 24, 1917 . was personally awarded the Commander's Second Class of the Military Order of St. Henry. He later commanded the 45th Landwehr Division (September 1918 to March 1919).

Individual evidence

↑ Herwart and Thassilo from the ceiling: family tables of the family from the ceiling. 1994, p. 13.
↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736–1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 193.
↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736–1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 82.

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personal data
SURNAME	Blankets, Otto von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blankets, Otto Hermann Theodor von der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH	17th August 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Verden
DATE OF DEATH	July 28, 1937
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Herwart and Thassilo from the ceiling: family tables of the family from the ceiling. 1994, p. 13.

[2] The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736–1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 193.

[3] The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736–1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 82.