Walther von Moßner

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Walther von Moßner

Walther Reinhold Moßner , from 1890 von Moßner , also Mossner (born February 19, 1846 in Berlin , † April 20, 1932 in Heidelberg ) was a Prussian general of the cavalry .

Life

origin

Walther was the son of the Jewish banker Jakob Wilhelm Mossner, landlord in Ulbersdorf ( Oels district ), and his wife Henriette Cäcilie, née Riese. Moßner was baptized as a Protestant on April 26, 1846 in the St. Nikolai Church .

Military career

As a cavalryman , Moßner joined the King Hussar Regiment (1st Rhenish) No. 1 of the Prussian Army in Bonn in 1865 . Despite the rejection of the other officers, King Wilhelm I complied with Walther's father's wish.

In the German war excellent, he took the 1870-71 war against France in part, received both classes of the Iron Cross and was established in 1872 as adjutant in the General Staff of the 22nd Cavalry Brigade commanded. As a major in the Leib-Guard Hussar Regiment in Potsdam , Moßner was raised to the Prussian nobility on January 27, 1890 in Berlin . Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed him his wing adjutant in 1892 . From 1896 to 1898 he was in command of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade in Szczecin . In 1899 Moßner was promoted to major general and took command of the Guard Cavalry Division on June 10th . From May 18, 1901, he was in command of the 30th Division . In April 1903 he became governor of Strasbourg and was made in this position on March 1, 1907 à la suite of the Leib-Garde-Hussar Regiment. In January 1910 Mossner under ceremony of was the star of the Commanders of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with the statutory board for disposition made.

From 1911 he was also a member of the First Chamber of the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , appointed by the Kaiser . In March 1914, Wilhelm II also awarded him the Order of Merit of the Prussian Crown .

During the First World War Moßner was re-used as a zD officer and acted as the commanding general of the deputy general command of the XXI. Army Corps in Saarbrücken . On January 27, 1918, the king made him Knight of the Black Eagle Order .

family

Moßner married his first marriage on March 17, 1877 in the Protestant military community in Bonn Meta Giebert (* May 21, 1856 in Fray Bentos , Uruguay ; † August 13, 1882 in Gmunden ). After her death, he married Anna von Wolffersdorff on December 12, 1883 in Sondershausen (born April 12, 1859 in Sondershausen; † November 21, 1907 in Strasbourg ). She was the daughter of the princely Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Chamberlain and Hofjägermeister Adolf von Wolffersdorff and Liddy Rath. The following children emerged from the marriages:

  • Henriette Gertrud Meta Emma (* 1878) ∞ Ernst Levy von Halle
  • Wilhelm Georg Robert (1878–1879)
  • Robert Max Ferdinand (* 1880)
  • Elisabeth Liddy Hedwig Wanda (* 1884)
  • Ernst Adolf Karl Walter Anton (1886–1944)
  • Anna Maria Martha Hedwig Klara (* 1890)

Awards

literature

  • Bernhard von Bülow : Memories. Volume 4: Youth and Diplomatic Years. 1931.
  • Franz Hans Hansen: Walther von Moßner. Frankfurt am Main 1933.
  • Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mulhouse 1911, p. 152.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The father had “assisted Prince Wilhelm during the revolution [...] to get himself out of the Berlin Palace on March 19, 1848, to safety from the protesting crowd. Wilhelm, now King of Prussia, was known for never forgetting when someone had helped him. At a later, chance meeting he asked Father Mossner if he had any wish. Mossner asked the king for help for his son, who was an excellent rider and wanted to serve in an elite cavalry regiment. Wilhelm I proposed his own regiment to him; there, however, the young Mossner was not welcomed with enthusiasm because of his Jewish origins. The officer corps refused to confirm him as an officer. Then it happened - probably unique in German history - that a Prussian monarch stood up for a soldier of Jewish origin. The king let the regimental commander know through his adjutant that he saw the dismissal of young Mossner as a personal insult. Now, of course, the officers had no choice and Mossner soon made a brilliant career. ”Jacob Rosenthal: The honor of the Jewish soldier. The census of Jews in World War I and its consequences. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 31f.
  2. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, p. 205, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISBN 3-7980-0816-7 . On 18 January 1901 Walter's older brother Ernst was Mossner (1839-1922) as a squire to Ulbersdorf ennobled .
  3. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 31 of March 5, 1907, p. 684.
  4. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 20 of February 10, 1910. p. 435.
  5. ↑ 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. 85.
  6. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 90 of January 29, 1918, p. 2241.
  7. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B Volume XV, p. 343, Volume 83 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984.
  8. ^ Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian nobility. First volume, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1892, p. 405.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 357.
personal data
SURNAME Moßner, Walther von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mossner, Walther von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1932
Place of death Heidelberg