Siegfried von Tietzen and Hennig

August Ernst Joseph Siegfried Alexander von Tietzen and Hennig (born February 1, 1825 in Herrnstadt ; † April 15, 1896 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

Siegfried was the son of the later Prussian general of the cavalry Wilhelm von Tietzen and Hennig (1787–1869) and his wife Charlotte Luise Henriette Amalie, née Countess von Reichenbach (1798–1852).

Military career

Tietzen attended high school in Torgau and joined the Kaiser Alexander Grenadier Regiment of the Prussian Army at the end of August 1842 . There he was promoted to second lieutenant in August 1844 . As such, Tietzen took part in the suppression of the barricade uprising in Berlin in 1848 and was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV Class with Swords for his behavior in the battle near Schleswig during the campaign against Denmark . In May of the following year he was used as an adjutant of the fusilier battalion in the street fighting in Dresden . After his promotion to Prime Lieutenant Tietzen was commanded from June 12 to July 7, 1855 as a company commander to the 2nd Battalion in the 3rd Guards Landwehr Regiment in Breslau . From April to June 1858 he was adjutant at the commandant's office in Berlin, rose to captain in March 1859, and from April 1859 to July 1860 he was company commander in the school department in Potsdam . Then Tietzen was appointed chief of the 11th company of his regular regiment. During the German War he was then charged with the command of the mobile IV battalion.

After the peace agreement , Tietzen was promoted to major in the 4th Guards Regiment on foot and on August 15, 1869, was appointed commander of the Fusilier Battalion. In this capacity he took part in the fighting at Gravelotte , Beaumont and Sedan as well as the siege of Paris in 1870/71 during the war against France . At times he was also entrusted with the management of the regiment.

Awarded with both classes of the Iron Cross , Tietzen advanced to lieutenant colonel on August 19, 1871 after the Peace of Frankfurt . Under position à la suite, he was commissioned on March 4, 1873 with the command of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment No. 90 . After his promotion to colonel , he served as regimental commander from May 23, 1873 to April 21, 1879. Subsequently entrusted with the command of the 33rd Infantry Brigade in Schwerin , Tietzen became major general and commander of this large unit on November 1, 1879 . On December 6, 1883, he was appointed commander of Spandau, while he was given the character of lieutenant general . In this position he received the patent for his rank on September 16, 1885 . Due to his increasing short-sightedness , Tietzen submitted his departure , which was approved for him on December 12, 1885 with the statutory pension subject to disposition . After his farewell, King Wilhelm I paid tribute to him on the occasion of the festival on January 17, 1886 by awarding the star to the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class, with oak leaves and swords on the ring.

He was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof .

family

Tietzen married Marie (Minna) Antoinette Freiin von Hausen (1830–1920) on December 4, 1852 in Dresden . She was the daughter of the Saxon Colonel Karl Rudolf Freiherr von Hausen. The daughters Charlotte (* 1853), Frieda (* 1857) and Fanny (* 1860) emerged from the marriage.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 391-393, no. 2960.
• Claus von Lettow-Vorbeck: Commemorative sheets on the rank list of the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. I. W. Moeser, Berlin 1899, p. 98.