Conrad Günther Ernst Wilhelm von Hugo
(20.01.1844 - 24.01.1911)
place of birth:  Wohlau, Silesia (Wołów, Pol)
Königreich Preußen:  KG,  General der Infanterie

                            


Carl von Hugo served as a Prussian general officer, ultimately commanding the XIII Army Corps of the Royal Württemberg military forces. After Prussian military academies in Wahlstatt and Berlin, he began his military career in 1862 as Sekonde-Lieutenant with Prussia's Königs-Grenadier Regiment (2. Westpreuß.) Nr. 7 in Liegnitz. Hugo saw action during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and was further engaged as a Premier-Lieutenant with this same unit during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.

Following a commendable military career in peacetime Germany, General von Hugo served as commanding general of XIII Army Corps in from 1902 through 1907. His chief of staff at corps headquarters in Stuttgart was Oberstleutnant Adolf Wild von Hohenborn, the general who would later serve as Prussian War Minister during the final two years of the Great War.


     

General der Infanterie  14.11.1903
Erinnerungs-Kreuz Deutscher Krieg  1866

Eisernes Kreuz II  Deutsch-Französischer Krieg  1870–1871