Victor von Hennigs

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Victor Carl Gustav von Hennigs (born April 18, 1848 in Stremlow , † March 10, 1930 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a Prussian general of the cavalry .

Life

origin

Victor was the fifth of nine children of the manor owner Albert von Hennigs and his wife Kathinka, nee Baroness von Fock. One of his brothers was the future Prussian lieutenant general Waldemar von Hennigs .

Military career

As a child, Hennigs was given up for education in the Potsdam Cadet Corps . After he was promoted to Second Lieutenant on April 18, 1865 , he joined the Uhlan Regiment “Emperor Alexander III. von Russland ”(West Prussian) No. 1 , where he was appointed regimental adjutant in 1868 . As a young officer, Hennigs took part in the Prussian-Austrian War in 1866 and in the Franco-German War in 1870/71. In the latter he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. Between the wars and again after the war of 1870/71 he attended the war academy .

From 1873 to 1876 Hennigs was assigned to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm as a military companion and in this capacity was promoted to Prime Lieutenant. After other uses and promotion to major , he accompanied the prince, who had meanwhile advanced to titular Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm, on a world tour in 1887 and 1888, which took both men through North and Central America and Asia until it ended in Singapore in October 1888 because Friedrich Wilhelm fell overboard and drowned on the voyage from Batavia to Singapore.

Then Hennigs was assigned to the General Staff in 1876 and in the same year transferred to the Guard Dragoon Regiment (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 23 , where he became squadron chief in 1878 . In 1882 he joined the Uhlan Regiment “Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden” (Rheinisches) No. 7 as an adjutant to the General Command of the II Army Corps in Stettin . From there he went in 1887 to the Uhlan regiment "Graf Haeseler" (2nd Brandenburgisches) No. 11 , first to Perleberg in the Prignitz , which was then transferred as a regiment to Saarburg in Lorraine .

In 1892 Hennigs was transferred to Potsdam , where he initially acted as commander of the 3rd Guards Uhlan Regiment with the rank of lieutenant colonel . In 1894 he was appointed head of the cavalry department in the War Ministry in Berlin, and in August 1896 he took over the 3rd Cavalry Brigade in Stettin . In 1901 Hennigs was finally appointed as lieutenant general inspector of the 2nd cavalry inspection. On July 31, 1904 Hennig was relieved of this post and the statutory board for disposition made. He then acted as chief of the rural gendarmerie until September 8, 1908, and in this function received the character of general of the cavalry on October 16, 1906 .

In 1900, 1901 and 1903 Hennigs took part as an arbitrator in the imperial maneuvers.

family

Hennigs married Paula von Albedyll on December 11, 1889 , a daughter of the general of the cavalry Georg von Albedyll and Elisabeth Pauline, née von Wedel -Burghagen (1861-1946).

The sons Rudolf (* 1891) and Georg-Wilhelm (* 1895) as well as the daughter Elisabeth (1895–1934) emerged from the marriage. The latter later married General and Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher as a second marriage .

While Hennig's sons both fell in World War I , the daughter and her husband were murdered by members of the SS security service on June 30, 1934 in Neubabelsberg on the “Night of the Long Knives” .

Awards

Hennigs stood à la suite of the 3rd Guard Uhlan Regiment in Potsdam and was the holder of the following medals and decorations :

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1909 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1909, p. 342
  2. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 95 of August 9, 1904. p. 2293.
  3. ↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 26.
  4. ↑ Registry office Berlin-Lichterfelde : marriage register . No. 4/1916.
  5. ^ Matthias Schmettow: Memorial book of the German nobility. Marburg / Lahn 1967, p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Hennigs, Victor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennigs, Victor Carl Gustav von (full name); Hennigs, Victor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Stremlow
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1930
Place of death Berlin -Lichterfelde