Theophil von Reichlin-Meldegg

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Theophil von Reichlin-Meldegg

Theophil Freiherr von Reichlin-Meldegg , also Theophil Reichlin von Meldegg (born April 16, 1846 in Regensburg , † May 7, 1910 in Augsburg ) was a Bavarian general of the infantry .

Life

family

He was the son of civil building inspector Friedrich von Reichlin-Meldegg (1805–1850) from Augsburg and his wife Amalia von Schallhammer. The father temporarily served as a member of the Bavarian state parliament with a Catholic-conservative orientation. From 1875, Reichlin was married to Anna d'Almeida (1853–1943).

Military career

First Reichlin was educated in the royal pagerie in Munich, an elite institute for the training of noble court officials and officers, then he attended the humanistic high school .

In 1864 Reichlin joined the Bavarian Army as a lieutenant and in 1866 took part in the war against Prussia . He was wounded on July 10, 1866 in a battle near Nördlingen . He also took part in the campaign against France in 1870 , where he suffered another wound near Sedan on September 1, 1870. In 1878 he was promoted to captain and in 1880 to adjutant in the 1st Army Corps . In 1886 Reichlin was promoted to major in the General Staff and he was seconded to the Prussian Great General Staff for two years . From 1889 he worked as a consultant in the War Ministry , where he became head of department and colonel in 1892 . In 1895 Reichlin briefly took over the infantry body regiment as commander .

From the end of 1895 to 1901, Reichlin held the office of Bavarian Military Plenipotentiary in Berlin and at the Federal Council . Here he was promoted to major general in 1896 and lieutenant general in 1900 . In 1902 he was appointed commander of the 2nd division , in 1905 general of the infantry and commanding general of the 2nd Army Corps .

Reichlin was the holder of several high medals and decorations , including the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , the Military Merit Order II. Class and the Iron Cross from 1870.

The general retired in 1908.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parliamentary data page of the father in the portal Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte
  2. ^ Peter Schmid: History of the city of Regensburg. Volume 1. Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 2000, ISBN 3-7917-1682-4 , p. 312. ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Website on the history of the Bavarian pagerie
personal data
SURNAME Reichlin-Meldegg, Theophil von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichlin-Meldegg, Theophil Freiherr von; Reichlin von Meldegg, Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian General of the Infantry and Plenipotentiary
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1910
Place of death augsburg