Waldemar von Fahland

Adolf Karl Wilhelm Waldemar Fahland , von Fahland since 1896 (born June 4, 1831 in Düsseldorf , † January 9, 1905 in Wiesbaden ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

Waldemar was a son of the Prussian captain in the Guard Reserve Regiment Gotthard Friedrich Fahland (1796-1840) and his wife Wilhelmine, née Pitzler (1804-1892).

Military career

After attending high school in Dusseldorf and the cadets houses in Bensberg and Berlin Fahland was as at April 1, 1848 second lieutenant of the 3rd engineering inspection of the Prussian army aggregated . On April 3, 1848, he moved to the 7th Pioneer Department and completed the United Artillery and Engineering School from October 1848 to June 1850 for further training . Subsequently, he was transferred to the 8th Pioneer Department, on July 30, 1850, he was assigned an extra-budgetary second lieutenant with a patent from September 16, 1848, and on April 12, 1851, to the 3rd engineer inspection. On October 8, 1852, Fahland was appointed adjutant of the 4th pioneer division and on September 30, 1854 for fortification work in Wesel and on June 6, 1855 in Cologne. There he was promoted to prime lieutenant in mid-February 1856, and from September 4, 1857 he served at the fortification in Magdeburg . He joined the 3rd Pioneer Division on April 1, 1859 and was promoted to captain on November 8, 1859. At the end of September 1860, Fahland returned to Magdeburg for fortification and was transferred to Pioneer Battalion No. 4 as company commander on April 2, 1861 . On July 21, 1861, he became adjutant to the 3rd Engineer Inspection. In the run-up to the German War , he was transferred to the Westphalian Pioneer Battalion No. 7 in Deutz as a company commander on April 3, 1866 . During the mobilization he joined the staff of the High Command of the 1st Army on May 19, 1866 as adjutant of the chief engineer officer and in this capacity took part in the battles near Münchengrätz and Königgrätz . On September 4, 1866, Fahland returned to his peace position and received the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class with swords, on January 15, 1867 for his work during the war .

On August 9, 1868, Fahland was commissioned to lead the East Prussian Pioneer Battalion No. 1 in Danzig and at the beginning of May 1869 he was promoted to major and battalion commander. During the war against France he led his battalion at Colombey , Noisseville , Amiens , Neuilly, Servigny, Villiers , L'Orme, Louvallier, Vernicourt and Francheville as well as in front of Metz , Verdun and Mézières .

Awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class, Fahland was commander of the Schleswig-Holstein Pioneer Battalion No. 9 after the peace treaty on October 18, 1871 and was subsequently awarded the Iron Cross 1st class on January 10, 1872. On June 11, 1872, he was transferred as commander of the Rhenish Pioneer Battalion No. 8 to Koblenz. This was followed on September 15, 1874, as an engineer officer from the place in Rastatt and in mid-September 1874, the promotion to lieutenant colonel . He then came on April 13, 1876 to represent the department head in the engineering committee, and on May 18, 1876 he became a member of the examination commission of the engineering corps . On March 22, 1877 he was promoted to colonel and on May 15, 1877 appointed inspector of military telegraphy . Then on October 14, 1880, he switched to the 2nd Pioneer Inspection as an inspector and received the Order of the Crown, Second Class , in mid-September 1882 . Under awarding of the character as a major general Fahland was on June 12, 1883 Pension for disposition made.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the imperial proclamation , Wilhelm II raised him to the hereditary Prussian nobility on January 18, 1896 . He died on January 9, 1905 in Wiesbaden and was buried there.

family

Fahland married Auguste Paas-Wever (1842–1936) on June 2, 1867 in Cologne. The couple had several children:

• Egon (* 1868), Prussian artillery captain
• Waldemar (* 1871), retired Prussian Colonel D. der Artillerie ⚭ 1905 Hilda Müller-Stern (1884–1949), a daughter of the Frankfurt banker Paul Müller and Charlotte Lina Stern
• Else (* 1877) ∞ 1915 Eugen von Tarnóczy (1886–1978)

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 10, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1942], DNB 986919810 , pp. 158-159, no. 3139.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. Justus Perthe, Gotha 1907 p. 174 , 1913 p. 213.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Old nobility and post office nobility. 1921. Fifteenth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1920, p. 198.

Individual evidence

1. ^ War Diary.