Wilhelm von Rintelen
Friedrich Wilhelm Rintelen , from 1913 from Rintelen (born May 29, 1855 in Dortmund , † January 5, 1938 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .
Life
Rintelen came from a Herford councilor family . The father was the lawyer and MP Viktor Rintelen . He married on September 21, 1886 in Berlin Hedwig Russell (born March 5, 1865 in Papenburg ; † January 9, 1953 in Deidesheim ), the daughter of the banker Emil Russell , royal Romanian consul general , syndic and mayor, and Angelina Beckering. His five children were the director of Deutsche Bank Viktor von Rintelen (1887–1954), General of the Infantry Enno von Rintelen (1891–1971), Angelina (Ina) von Rintelen (1893–1983), who married the Prussian Chief Staff Doctor Conrad Pochhammer , the German ambassador Emil von Rintelen (1897–1981) and Fritz-Joachim von Rintelen (1898–1979), professor of philosophy , psychology and education at the University of Mainz .
Rintelen embarked on a career as an officer in the Prussian Army , during which he commanded the 4th Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 136 in Strasbourg from November 17, 1906 to January 26, 1909 . He was then commander of the fortress Küstrin and was in that position on September 10, 1910 the character as a major general . In approval of his resignation request , Rintelen was put up for disposal on April 18, 1913 with the statutory pension .
On June 16, 1913 , Wilhelm II raised him to the hereditary Prussian nobility in Berlin with a diploma dated May 27, 1914 .
During the First World War , Rintelen was reused, acted as the commander of the border guards in the II Army Corps and still received the character of lieutenant general.
He was the author of family history writings and the biographer of his father Viktor Rintelen.
Works
- History of the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 during the first seventy-five years of its existence, 1818 to 1893. ES Mittler & Sohn. Berlin 1893. ( digitized version )
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XXI, page 461, volume 108 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1995, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 .
- Hedwig von Rintelen: Wilhelm von Rintelen, 1855-1938 . A picture of life, written down for the Rintelen family association, Potsdam 1939.
- Bernd Haunfelder: Rintelen, Viktor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 640 f. ( Digitized version ). (Mention)
- Eckhard Wendt: Rintelen, Fritz-Joachim Paul von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 643 f. ( Digitized version ). (Mention)
- Martin L. Müller: Russell, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 298 f. ( Digitized version ). (Mentioned on p. 299)
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm von Rintelen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Military weekly paper . No. 51/52 of April 19, 1913. p. 1172.
- ↑ German Officer Association (Ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1926. p. 697.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rintelen, Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rintelen, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian lieutenant general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1938 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |