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Gustav Adolf Oskar
Wilhelm Frh von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem
(15.10.1825 - 26.12.1895)
place of birth: Berlin
Königreich
Preußen: KG,
General der Infanterie
General Oskar von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem served in the
Prussian military as the commander of V. Army Corps and the Guards
Corps. He initially joined the 21st Infantry Regiment at Thorn in 1843
and fought during the German Revolutions of 1848.
Meerscheidt then served a a company commander during the Danish War of
1864 and as a battalion commander in the Austro-Prussian War of
1866.
During
the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, Oberst Meerscheidt-
Hüllessem commanded
the 41st Infantry Regiment, which was engaged in the campaign at Metz
and in northern France. During peacetime, he took command of V. Army
Corps in Posen in 1886, and in 1888 replaced Alexander von Pape as
commander of the Guards Corp. General von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem retired from active duty in
1893 and died in Berlin two years later, having never married.
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