Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler

{{Infobox military person

| honorific_prefix = Graf

| name = Gottlieb von Haeseler

| image = Gottliebvonhaeseler.jpeg

| caption = Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler in 1910

| birth_date = 18 January 1836

| birth_place = Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1919|10|25|1836|01|19}}

| death_place = Harnecop bei Wriezen, Germany

| allegiance = {{flag|Kingdom of Prussia}}
{{flag|North German Confederation}}
{{flag|German Empire}}

| branch = Heer

| serviceyears = 1853–1903

| rank = Generalfeldmarschall

| battles = Second Schleswig War
Austro-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
World War I (in advisory capacity)

| commands =11. Ulanenregiment
12. Kavalleriebrigade
31. Kavalleriebrigade
20. Division
6. Division
XVI. Armee-Korps

| awards = Pour le Mérite

| relations =

}}

Gottlieb Ferdinand Albert Alexis Graf von Haeseler (January 19, 1836 – October 25, 1919) was a German military officer of the Imperial Wilhelmine period, with final rank of Generalfeldmarschall.

Biography

Haeseler was born in Potsdam to August Alexis Eduard Haeseler and Albertine von Schönermark. He entered the Prussian army as Lieutenant in 1853 and became aide-de-camp of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia in 1860. He served in the Danish-Prussian War (1864), the Austro-Prussian War (1866), and the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). From 1879 he headed the military history department of the general staff, and from 1890 to 1903 he was General of the Cavalry and head of the XVI Army Corps in Metz. In 1905 he received the rank of a Generalfeldmarschall. From 1903 he was member of the Prussian House of Lords and worked for the development of the vocational school system. Haeseler died in Harnekop.

Among other things, the barracks of the paratrooper battalion No. 261 in Lebach/Saar are named after Haeseler.

Awards

Notes

{{German title|Graf}}

Literature

  • Jürgen Hahn-Butry (Hrsg.): Preußisch-deutsche Feldmarschälle und Großadmirale. Safari, Berlin 1938.
  • Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler: Zehn Jahre im Stabe des Prinzen Friedrich Karl. 3 Bände. Mittler, Berlin 1910–1915 (Digitalisat: [http://tudigit.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/show/47-7847 Band 2])
  • {{NDB|7|452||Haeseler, Gottlieb Graf von|Heinz Kraft}}

References

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