|
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 during peacetime. In
1873, he became the Wilhelm I.'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 VII. Armee-Korps until his
retirement from active duty in 1893. He died in Potsdam in June of 1897
and is interred at the Bornstedt Cemetery.
|
