Werner VIII of Alvensleben

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Werner VIII of Alvensleben

Werner VIII von Alvensleben (born February 7, 1802 in Eichenbarleben , † June 30, 1877 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

He was the son of Gebhard Johann von Alvensleben (1773–1856) and his wife Karoline Friederike Eleonore, born von Alvensleben (1773–1826). His father was a Prussian lieutenant colonel a. D. , last commander of the 2nd Battalion in the 2nd Guards Landwehr Regiment. He had four brothers of whom Gustav and Constantin were also generals.

Military career

Alvensleben received lessons in the monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg and was a cadet in Berlin from the end of August 1815 . On April 5, 1819 he was transferred to the 27th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army as a second lieutenant . Five days later he was transferred to the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot . In 1823/27 Alvensleben graduated from the General War School , was first lieutenant in July 1832 and transferred to the Guards Rifle Battalion . After several years in command as a recruiting officer in Neuchâtel , he returned in 1841 as a captain and company commander in the Guard Rifle Battalion. At the end of March 1846 he was transferred to the 9th Infantry Regiment in Stettin. Major in 1848 , in 1850 as battalion commander for Kaiser-Alexander-Grenadier-Regiment No. 1 , 1853 as a lieutenant colonel . Retired as a colonel in 1856. 1856/57 military companion of Duke Wilhelm von Mecklenburg-Schwerin , with whom he undertook a long journey through France and Spain . In 1857 reappointed commandant of Wittenberg and in 1860 as commandant to Wesel , and in 1861 transferred to Posen as such ; here major general in 1861 , lieutenant general in 1865 . On 8 May 1869 he was after a 50-year period of service under award of the Red Eagle to First Class with oak leaves disposition made.

He spent the rest of his life happily living with his brothers Gustav and Constantin in Potsdam.

Even if he lacked the statesmanship of his brother Gustav and the general gift of Constantine, he was equal to both in terms of character traits. The great tradition of the time of the wars of liberation lived on in all three brothers . He, too, was a right representative of aristocratic Prussia in disposition and attitude to life. He is buried with his brothers Gustav and Constantin in the shared hereditary funeral at Ballenstedt .

family

Alvensleben married Elisabeth Adelheid Kahl (1826–1863) on July 8, 1848 in Stettin . After her death, he married Klara Heineccius (* 1835) in Berlin on November 21, 1865. His daughter (from his first marriage) Bertha (1859–1912) married the court preacher Friedrich Winfried Schubart .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family von Alvensleben , accessed on October 10, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Alvensleben, Werner VIII. Von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Oak bar life
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1877
Place of death Potsdam