Otto Karl von Parseval
(18.03.1827 - 12.03.1901)
place of birth:  Zweibrücken
Königreich Bayern:  KG, General der Infanterie

                            


General der Infanterie Otto von Parseval was a Bavarian general who commanded Bavaria's II. Army Corps and served as an adjutant general during peace time. Otto was the son of Bavarian General Ferdinand von Parseval and his Irish wife Fanziska nee O'Hegerty. His brothers Maximilian and Ferdinand Jakob were also generals serving in the Royal Bavarian Army. The Parseval family originally belonged to the French aristocracy but was later registered as a noble house of Bavaria in the early 1800s.

Otto von Parseval entered military service in August 1845 as a Junker in the Bavarian Army's Infanterie-Leib-Regiment. For a few years in the early 1860s, Otto functioned as military instructor to the young Princes of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. During the War with Prussia in 1866, he worked as a company commander in the 2nd Infantry Regiment, seeing action in battles at Kissingen, Helmstadt, and Roßbrunn. During the 1870 campaign in France, von Parseval fought as a major on Bavaria's General Staff.

In peacetime, his military career advanced until he was ultimately selected in April 1890 to command Bavaria's II. Army Corps in Wurzburg. He additionally functioned as Generaladjutant to Bavarian King Otto and Prince-Regent Luitpold. Otto von Parseval retired from active duty in 1895.

	General der Infanterie	29.10.1890
	Armee-Denkzeichen	Deutscher Krieg 1866  (Königreich Bayern)
	Eisernes Kreuz I	Deutsch-Französischer Krieg  1870–1871