Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen
(24.02.1850 - 08.01.1917)
place of birth:  Potsdam
Königreich Preußen:  General der Infanterie ch.

                            


Imperial Prussian general officer and military attaché Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen was the son of army corps commander General Emil von Schwartzkoppen. Maximilian entered the army in time to take part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. He thereafter served on the Great General Staff in Berlin at the rank of Hauptmann and then became military escort to Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hessen-Darmstadt.

Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen served as Prussian military attaché in Paris from 1891 to 1897. It was in this capacity that he became entangled in the so-called Dreyfus-Affair. Von Schwartzkoppen was brevetted General der Infanterie in 1907 and retired from active duty the following year. After the outbreak of World War One in 1914, he was reactivated and given command of 233. Infanterie-Brigade. In mid-summer 1917, however, he fell ill with pneumonia and died while in the hospital in Berlin.