Walter Schmidt von Schmidtseck
Walter Hilmar Freiherr Schmidt of Schmidtseck (* 22. September 1865 at Gut Klein Wogenab , district Elbing ; † 28. January 1945 in Perkau ) was a Prussian lieutenant general in the First World War .
Life
origin
Walter was the son of the Prussian chamberlain and manor owner Rudolf Schmidt von Schmidtseck (1840–1898) in Woplauken , Rastenburg district and his wife Anna, née Countess zu Eulenburg -Prassen (* 1840). His brother Hilmar (1863-1912) became district administrator .
Military career
Schmidt von Schmidtseck embarked on a career as an officer in the artillery of the Prussian Army and served in the First World War, among other things, in Army High Command 10 and in the Woyrsch Army Department as Chief of Staff . At the end of the war he was in command of the 11th Infantry Division .
He was the owner of the Perkau (610 ha) and Pöhlen (366 ha) estates in the Friedland district , East Prussia .
family
He married Dorothea von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1871–1945), daughter of Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg, in Boitzenburg on September 25, 1895 . The two daughters Vera (* 1899) and Felicitas (* 1909) emerged from the marriage.
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser. 1921. Seventy-first year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1920, pp. 838–839.
Web links
- Walter Freiherr Schmidt von Schmidtseck ( The Prussian Machine )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christa Bettler-Marckwardt: Count rule and imperial times: Dietlof Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg in the norm network of his family; elaborated from letters and other sources 1893–1900. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2000, p. 75. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
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| SURNAME | Schmidt von Schmidtseck, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt von Schmidtseck, Walter Hilmar Freiherr (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian lieutenant general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klein Wogenab , district of Elbing |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1945 |
| Place of death | Perkau |