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Eugen Karl August Johann
Joseph Ritter von Keller
(07.12.1843 - 29.01.1938)
place of birth: München
Königreich
Bayern: General-Lieutenant
Generalleutnant Eugen Ritter von Keller served as an artillery officer
in the Bavarian military forces prior to the Great War.
Keller was active with the Bavarian contingent during the Austro-Prussian
War of 1866. He fought alongside Berlin's military forces during the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, serving as an Ober-Lieutenant in Royal
Bavarian 1. Artillerie-Regiment Prinz Luitpold. Later, Keller was General Carl von Orff's Chief of Staff at II. Bavarian Army
Corps headquarters in Munich from January 1889 until May 1890, when
Otto von Parseval took command of II. Army Corps.
Von Keller remained
as Parseval's chief of staff until March 1892, when he was selected to command a
Bavarian field artillery brigade. For his
meritorious leadership during peacetime, he was awarded the Ritter
(Knight class) of the Bavarian crown's order of merit - the Verdienstorden
der Bayerischen Krone. The official presentation of the decoration in 1891
elevated him into Bavarian nobility with the title of "Ritter von Keller." His son
Friedrich von Keller served as a German diplomat prior to and during
the Second World War.
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