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Theophil
Eugen Anton von Podbielski
(17.10.1814 - 31.10.1879)
place of birth: Köpenick, Berlin
Königreich
Preußen: Quartiermeister,
KG, General der Cavallerie
Prussian cavalry general von Podbielski launched his
military career in 1831 with Prussia's 1. Ulanen-Regiment, having been promoted
in 1833 to Sekonde-Lieutenant at the age of 19. He was in command of his own
Hussar Regiment in Thuringia by 1858, and later commanded a cavalry
brigade beginning in March of 1863.
Generalfeldmarschall Graf von Wrangel soon called
von Podbielski to serve as his Oberquartiermeister
during the Danish War of 1864, and he remained in
this capacity following the conflict. In 1866, he was sent to Berlin to
head up the General War Department of the War Ministry, but with the
outbreak of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, he was
instead appointed to function as Army Generalquartiermeister, a
position which earned him the order of the Pour le Merite.
Following the peace agreement, General von Pobielski returned to the
War Ministry where he busied himself with the reorganization of the
Prussian military as part of the North German Federation. With the
outbreak of Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71,
General-Lieutenant von Podbielski returned to his previous job of the
Prussian Army's Generalquartiermeister.
Following the war in France, von
Podbielski was named Prussian Inspector General of Artillery, despite
his military background as a cavalry officer. It was under his command
that the Prussian military forces drastically upgraded their artillery
forces and simultaneously came to distinguish mobile field artillery
from the more permanently entrenched fortress artillery units. General
der Cavallerie von Podbielski was married to the former Agnes von
Jagow. Their son Viktor (1844-1916) likewise served as a general in the Prussian
Army and was active in German Parliament.
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