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.
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General
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14.11.1903 |
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Erinnerungs-Kreuz |
Deutscher Krieg 1866 |
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Eisernes
Kreuz II |
Deutsch-Französischer
Krieg 1870–1871 |
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