Otto von der Mülbe (General, 1801)

Otto Albrecht Karl Heinrich von der Mülbe (born April 18, 1801 in Braunsberg , † November 28, 1891 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Von der Mülbe was a son of the Prussian major general Hans Christoph Ludwig von der Mülbe (1748–1811) and his wife Dorothea Luise Helene Sophie, born von Lübenow (1766–1846) from the Bichow family.

Military career

Mülbe attended the Catholic grammar school in his hometown as well as the Berlin Cadet House and was transferred to the Prussian Army grenadier regiment Emperor Alexander as a second lieutenant on May 5, 1818 . For further training he completed the General War School in 1821/24 and advanced to major and 5th staff officer by the end of March 1846 . As such, Mülbe took part in the suppression of street fighting in Berlin in March 1848 and in the battle near Schleswig during the campaign against Denmark in April 1848 . On December 21, 1848 he became second in command of the 2nd Battalion in the 2nd Guards Landwehr Regiment in Magdeburg , which Mülbe led in the battles near Neudorf, Wiesenthal, Durlach and Kirchheimbolanden the following year during the suppression of the Baden Revolution . For his behavior he received the Red Eagle Order IV. Class with Swords and the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion .

On January 19, 1850 he was transferred to Potsdam as commander of the 2nd Battalion in the 1st Guards Regiment on foot . This was followed after two years as a commander of Minden . In this position Mülbe rose to colonel by mid-July 1854 . From May 10, 1855 to June 14, 1857 he was then commander of the 13th Infantry Regiment in Münster . He then acted as commander of the 13th Infantry Brigade in Magdeburg for half a year and was transferred to the 4th Infantry Brigade in the same capacity on December 3, 1857 . Two weeks after his promotion to major general, Mülbe was given command of the 2nd Guard Infantry Brigade on June 3, 1858 . Awarded the Commander's Cross of the Leopold Order in June 1859 , he also worked as a member of the study commission of the War Academy. On May 13, 1861, Mülbe was commissioned to lead the 10th division in Posen , relieved him of his position as a member of the study commission at the beginning of June and appointed him division commander on July 24, 1861. On the day of Wilhelm I's coronation as King of Prussia, Mülbe was promoted to lieutenant general in 1861 . On December 9, 1863, he was initially commanded to lead the 2nd Guard Division , and on January 8, 1864, he was appointed commander of this large formation . On the occasion of the war against Denmark , Mülbe was given command of a combined guard infantry division in Schleswig, which he led in the battles at Satrup , Fredericia and the siege of the Düppeler Schanzen . Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle with a Star and Oak Leaves and the Swords on the Ring for his work, Mülbe was appointed commander of the 1st Guard Division on May 18, 1864, while remaining in his position . He was released from his command as commander of the combined division on July 5, 1864, and the Allied Austrians honored him in August by awarding him the Order of the Iron Crown, 1st class with war decorations.

Due to his poor health, Mülbe submitted his departure , which the king initially refused in early June 1865. Mülbe received up to the beginning of the autumn exercises a holiday granted and was I on his renewed request, under award of the Red Eagle Class with oak leaves and swords on rings with the law on October 11, 1865 Board for disposition made.

With the beginning of the German War , he was reactivated with the rank and authority of a commanding general and appointed leader of a mobile reserve corps that assembled near Berlin and consisted of Landwehr units. At the head of his corps, he entered Dresden on June 21, 1866 . For a short time he was military governor in the Kingdom of Saxony from June 22 to July 8, 1866 , then marched with the Guard Landwehr Division to Prague and on to Brno . Here he received the news of the armistice . Mülbe took part in the entry of the troops into Berlin and was put back into retirement on September 17, 1866, being given the character of general of the infantry.

family

Mülbe married on June 17, 1838 in Danzig with Franziska Bertram (1813-1904), the daughter of a businessman. The following children were born from the marriage:

• Doris (* 1839)
• Franz (1840–1915), Prussian general of the infantry ⚭ November 11, 1867 Emma Franke (* 1848)
• Margarete (1846–1849)
• Hans (1848–1866), Prussian second lieutenant
• Anna (* 1850) ⚭ November 27, 1879 Adolf von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski (1845–1926), Prussian infantry general

literature

• Julius von Basse, Karl von Kleinsorgen: Stamm-Liste of the Infantry Regiment Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1st Westphalian) No. 13. Belser-Verlag, Stuttgart no year, p. 15-16.
• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , pp. 470-473, no. 2088.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1906, p. 515.