Rudolf von Bessel

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Hugo Heinrich Viktor Rudolf von Bessel (born February 6, 1810 in Liegnitz , Province of Silesia , † October 26, 1894 in Dresden ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

Coat of arms of the von Bessel family

origin

He belonged to a family originating from the prince-bishopric of Minden , whose progenitor was the prince-bishop's chief bailiff and chamberlain to Petershagen , Engelbert Bessel († 1567). The prince-bishop's secret council and chancellor Johann Bessel received a Brunswick-Lüneburg nobility recognition in 1630 , namely the imperial nobility allegedly granted to his ancestor, the imperial Colonel Jobst Bessel, in 1494 . In Prussia, the descendants of the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Leopold Bessel (1792–1879), who had been using the title of nobility since around 1813, did not receive formal nobility confirmation until 1911. Rudolf was a son of the Prussian lieutenant colonel and brigadier of the 6th Gendarmerie Brigade Ferdinand von Bessel (1770–1821) and his wife Wilhelmine, née von Zschüschen (1789–1869).

Career

Bessel visited the cadet houses in Potsdam and Berlin . On August 18, 1836, he was aggregated as a second lieutenant in the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army and was assigned two months later. For further training he completed the General War School for three years from October 1840 . From April 5, 1844 to January 24, 1850, Bessel was adjutant of the 2nd Battalion and on January 10, 1850 was promoted to Premier Lieutenant . He was then commanded to Freystadt as a company commander in the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Landwehr Regiment until the end of September 1854. During this time he was promoted to captain on October 12, 1852 . On his return to the 6th Infantry Regiment, he was appointed company commander on July 7, 1857 . As a major , he was appointed commander of the 1st Battalion in the 1st Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 46 on November 12, 1864 . In this capacity, Bessel took part in the battles near Nachod , Skalitz , Schweinschädel , Gradlitz and Königgrätz in 1866 during the war against Austria .

After the peace treaty he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on September 20, 1866 and awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords, for his work . On June 9, 1868 he was transferred to Glatz as commander of the 3rd Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 62 . There he rose to colonel on July 3, 1868. In the following year, Bessel led his regiment in the war against France in the siege of Paris and the battles at Villejuif, Vitry, Fort d'Ivry, Bicetre, Chevilly , Bagneux and Chatillon. On May 1, 1871, he was commanded to lead the 22nd Infantry Brigade and from June 7 to July 8, 1871 to lead the 24th Infantry Brigade . For his work with both classes of the Iron Cross awarded, Bessel was on February 4, 1873 position à la suite commander of the 26th Infantry Brigade in Minden appointed and promoted on March 22, 1873 Major General. On the occasion of the festival in January 1877, he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class, with oak leaves and swords on the ring. Under awarding of the character he was on September 8, 1877 as a lieutenant general board for disposition made. He died in Dresden on October 26, 1894.

family

Bessel married Henriette Freiin von Buddenbrock (1822-1887) in Liegnitz on October 28, 1846 . The couple had several children:

  • Marie (1847–1880) ⚭ 1872 Arthur von Wiese and Kaiserswaldau († 1843), Colonel a. D.
  • Hans (* 1850), Prussian lieutenant ret. D. ⚭ Ottilie Miketta (* 1852)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical paperback of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover , Hanover 1840, p.82 ; Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1859, p. 382.
  2. ^ GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, p. 366.
  3. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser. 1883. p. 108 f.
  4. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. 1916. Seventeenth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1915, p. 921.
personal data
SURNAME Bessel, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bessel, Hugo Heinrich Viktor Rudolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1894
Place of death Dresden