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Emil
Heinrich Ludwig von Albedyll
(01.04.1824 - 13.06.1897)
place of birth: Liebenow, Mark
Brandenburg
Königreich Preußen: Chef
Mil-Kabinetts, Generaladjutant SM, General der Cavallerie
Prussian cavalry general Emil von Albedyll launched his
military career during the campaign against Denmark as an ordinance
officer during the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848.
He additionally served under General von Manteuffel during the Danish
War of 1864. The Franco-Prussian War
years saw him serving as an aide-de-camp back at Great Headquarters in
Berlin.
After the War of 1870-71, von Albedyll
replaced General Hermann von Tresckow as Kaiser Wilhelm I's Chief of
the Military Cabinet, a post he held for 17 years of
peacetime. In 1873, he became the Kaiser's General à la suite, and then General
Adjutant in 1876. Upon Kaiser Wilhelm I's death, von Albedyll left
Berlin for Münster, where he headed up the 7th Army Corps until his
retirement from active duty in 1893. He died in Potsdam in June of 1897
and is interred at the Bornstedt Cemetery.
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