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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. Armee-Korps and Prussia's Garde-Korps. He initially joined the 21. Infanterie-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 41. Infanterie-Regiment, which was engaged in the campaign at Metz
and in northern France. During peacetime, he took command of V. Armee-Korps in Posen in 1886, and in 1888 replaced Alexander von Pape as
commander of Prussia's Garde-Korps. In 1891, he was decorated with Prussia's
highest order of chivalry, the Schwarzer Adler-Orden (Order of the
Black Eagle.) General von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem retired from active duty in
1893 and died in Berlin two years later, having never married.
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