Ulrich Marshal called Greiff

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Veit Ulrich Gustav Gotthold Freiherr Marschall called Greiff (born May 19, 1863 in Erlebach ; † May 8, 1923 there ), was a Prussian major general , adjutant general and in 1918 head of the military cabinet .

Life

origin

Family coat of arms

Ulrich Marschall called Greiff came from the old noble Thuringian family of Greiff with the parent company Erlebach, which appeared for the first time in 1340 with Heinz Greiff zu Erlebach. The Greiffen were hereditary marshals of the county of Henneberg , from which they derived their second part of their name, and then belonged to the Frankish imperial knighthood. The Marschall family called Greiff auf Erlebach received on March 26, 1884, the ducal Saxon-Meiningische recognition of the right to use the title of baron and Ulrich received as Prussian ensign in the 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109 on May 8, 1884 from the Prussian Heraldry an equal recognition.

Military career

Marschall called Greiff was chief of the 11th company in the 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109 in Karlsruhe until 1902 , until he was transferred as captain to the 2nd catering department (B2) of the War Ministry . There he performed his service until 1908. He then worked as a major (from July 18, 1905) in the military cabinet and was head of department there from 1912. He then took over from Moriz von Lyncker as head of the military cabinet on July 27, 1918 . In contrast to his predecessors, he was a long-time member of the military cabinet. The position also included the function as a lecturing adjutant general of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

The military cabinet ceased to exist on October 28, 1918, and Marshal Greiff was the last head of this authority. He then resigned as major general from the military.

family

Ulrich Marschall called Greiff married Adelheid von Goßler on March 15, 1898 in Berlin (born March 16, 1870 in Erfurt, † May 17, 1959 in Erlehof near Römhild), a daughter of the Prussian lieutenant general z.D. Martin von Goßler on Calbe II and Marie von Pfuel .

The marriage had two daughters, which is why with Ulrich's death the line of Marshal Greiff died out in the male line :

  • Eva (born December 21, 1898 in Frankfurt / Oder) ∞ on February 8, 1927 in Coburg the graduate farmer Werner Clausius, who died in 1939 as a captain of a wound in Dnjepropetrovsk, in today's Ukraine.
  • Marie-Charlotte (born June 20, 1902 at Gut Calbe in the Altmark) ∞ On July 19, 1928 in Ummerstadt in the Hildburghausen district, the senior government councilor Botho von Zander (born October 3, 1888 in Königsberg ; † July 26, 1944 in Coburg).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Freiherr Marschall called Greiff in the German biography
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, Limburg / Lahn 1997, p. 284.
  3. ^ Marshal called Greiff . In: Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past . 4., reworked. and greatly increased edition, Volume 10:  Lack Farbe – Matelen , Eigenverlag, Altenburg 1860, p.  921 .
  4. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume X, Volume 65 of the complete series, Limburg / Lahn 1977, p. 192.
personal data
SURNAME Marshal called Greiff, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marshal called Greiff, Veit Ulrich Gustav Gotthold Freiherr (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general, adjutant general and 1918 chief of the military cabinet
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Erlebach
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1923
Place of death Erlebach