Paul Karl von Lettow-Vorbeck

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Paul Karl von Lettow-Vorbeck (born April 26, 1832 in Wangeritz , † May 30, 1919 in Charlottenburg near Berlin ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the landowner Karl Wilhelm von Lettow-Vorbeck and his wife Heloise, née von der Groeben .

Military career

After visiting the cadet institutes in Potsdam and Berlin , Lettow-Vorbeck was transferred to the 30th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a second lieutenant on April 27, 1850 . There he acted from May 1, 1852 to September 30, 1854 as an adjutant of the Fusilier Battalion and then completed the General War School for three years . After brief assignment to the Infantry Training Battalion , he served as a regimental adjutant and on May 31, 1859, he became Premier Lieutenant . As such, Lettow-Vorbeck was from May 1, 1859 adjutant of the 20th Landwehr Regiment, from which the 7th Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 60 was formed a little later . With promotion to captain , Lettow-Vorbeck was transferred to the staff of the General Command of the V Army Corps in Posen . From December 30, 1863 to June 3, 1864 he was a general staff officer in command of the troops of II , V and VI deployed in the administrative district of Bromberg . Army Corps commands. On October 31, 1865 Lettow-Vorbeck was transferred as a company commander to the 8th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 70 in Saarlouis . He led his 3rd company in 1866 during the German War in the Main Campaign . After the peace treaty, Lettow-Vorbeck advanced to major and was commanded as a general staff officer in the 3rd Reserve Division in 1870/71 for the duration of the war against France . In this capacity, he was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross for his achievements .

After the peace treaty , Lettow-Vorbeck was transferred to Brandenburg an der Havel as commander of the 1st Battalion in the Brandenburg Fusilier Regiment No. 35 in mid-August 1871 . In the same capacity he later took over the 2nd Battalion and on July 3, 1875 became a lieutenant colonel . On February 26, 1878 he was appointed with the rank and fees of regimental commander to district commander of the Reserve Landwehr Regiment (Berlin) No. 35. Lettow-Vorbeck was promoted to colonel on June 11, 1879 and then served from February 3, 1880 to April 14, 1884 as commander of the grenadier regiment "Prince Carl of Prussia" (2nd Brandenburg) No. 12 in Frankfurt (Oder) . This was followed by his appointment as commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade in Gdansk while being promoted to major general . After Lettow-Vorbeck was promoted to Lieutenant General on September 19, 1888 , he was appointed Commander of Thorn in the area of ​​the XVII on December 1 . Army Corps . In this capacity he was awarded the Order of the Crown, 1st class, on January 23, 1891, on the occasion of the festival of the Order . On October 18, 1891, he was transferred to the officers of the army and two months later, with the approval of his resignation petition, put up for disposition in the statutory pension .

After his departure, Lettow-Vorbeck received the character of General of the Infantry on March 22, 1897 and, on April 29, 1904, the right to wear the uniform of the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 .

Lettow-Vorbeck was a legal knight of the Order of St. John . In the family chronicle of 1904 he is described as a “thoroughly conservative, genuinely loyal man”.

family

Lettow-Vorbeck was married to Marie, née von Eisenhart-Rothe (1842–1919). She was the daughter of the landscape director Ferdinand von Eisenhart-Rothe and his wife Emilie, née von Loeper. From the marriage u. a. the "Hero of German East Africa" ​​and later General of the Infantry Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870–1964) emerged.

literature

  • Max Kürner: Officer master list of the Royal Prussian Infantry Regiment Margrave Karl (7th Brandenburgisches) No. 60. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1905, pp. 26-27.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Charlottenburg I No. 605/1919.
  2. ↑ Horst Founder : Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul von. in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 14 (1985), pp. 358-359 online version
  3. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 106 of December 8, 1888, p. 2189.
  4. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 6 of January 21, 1891, p. 174.
  5. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 52 of April 30, 1904, p. 1262.
  6. ↑ Eckard Michels : "The Hero of German East Africa" ​​Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76370-9 , p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Wangeritz
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1919
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg