Reinhard von Scheffer-Boyadel

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R. von Scheffer-Boyadel

Reinhard Gottlob Georg Heinrich Freiherr von Scheffer-Boyadel (* 28. March 1851 in Hanau , † 8. November 1925 in Boyadel ) was a Prussian general of the infantry in the First World War .

Life

Reinhard was a son of the electoral Hessian and later royal Prussian government councilor Eduard Scheffer (1818–1899). In 1870 he joined the Prussian Army as a volunteer , took part in the war against France and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. In February 1871 he was promoted to second lieutenant . After attending the War Academy , he was promoted to captain in 1883 . In 1894 von Scheffer was appointed lieutenant colonel and as such he acted as chief of the general staff of the guard corps . After his promotion to colonel , he was appointed commander of the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 in 1899 . He then took over the 3rd Infantry Guard Brigade as Major General in 1901 and joined the General Staff as Senior Quartermaster in 1903 . There he became lieutenant general in 1904 .

In 1906, Emperor Wilhelm II raised Scheffer to the Prussian baron class with the addition of Boyadel .

In the same year he was appointed commander of the 2nd Guard Division . In 1908 he was promoted to General of the Infantry and appointed General of the XI. Army Corps . With the approval of his resignation, Scheffer was placed on December 31, 1913 for disposition and à la suite of the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1.

With the outbreak of the First World War, Scheffer was reactivated and in the section of the 9th Army to the commanding general of the XXV deployed in Poland . Reserve Corps appointed. In November 1914, in the Lowitsch pocket , he was in command of all the trapped troop units, including the 3rd Guard Division under General Karl Litzmann , the Higher Cavalry Command 1 (HKK 1) under General Manfred von Richthofen and the remnants of the 72. Infantry Brigade. On November 22nd, 1914, General von Scheffer-Boyadel gave the order to break through to the east at Brzeziny , which succeeded on November 24th despite the freezing cold of −20 ° C and the transport of 2,000 wounded and 10,000 prisoners. For this he received the order Pour le Mérite on December 2, 1914 .

From September 3, 1916 to September 17, 1917 he was in command of the XVII. Reserve Corps and was Commander in Chief of the Scheffer Army Division on the Central Eastern Front . He then took over command of General Command 67 until 1918 . He was retired in December 1918.

Scheffer, who had owned Brandenstein Castle near Schlüchtern-Elm since 1887 , had the castle rebuilt and the castle hill reforested. In 1890 he was raised to the nobility together with his wife Margarete, a daughter († 1904) of the industrialist Carl Adolf Riebeck . He sold his Brandenstein property to Gustav von Brandenstein in 1895.

In 1905 von Scheffer acquired the Boyadel rule in Lower Silesia, which had been in the hands of the von Kottwitz family for 325 years . In Primogenitur the Fideikommiss Boyadel was thus also the elevation to the baron class (January 29, 1906).

After his death, his son Adolf Freiherr von Scheffer-Boyadel became the owner of the estate until 1945.

Awards

literature

  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Berlin 1935, pp. 249-250.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Son , Berlin 1914, p. 148
personal data
SURNAME Scheffer-Boyadel, Reinhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheffer, Reinhard (maiden name); Scheffer-Boyadel, Reinhard Gottlob Georg Heinrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1925
Place of death Boyadel