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Gustav
Friedrich Wilhelm von Stiehle
(14.08.1823 - 15.11.1899)
place of birth: Erfurt
Königreich
Preußen: KG,
Generaladjutant SM, General der Infanterie
General von Stiehle served in the Prussian officer corps
during the 19th century and prior to World War One. He grew up in
Erfurt and joined the 21st Infantry Regiment in 1840. He attended the
Military Academy in Berlin from 1844 to 1847 and was assigned to the
Great General Staff's Trigonometry Section from 1852 to 1855. After
serving as a company commander in the 7th Infantry, Stiehle was charged
with establishing military schools in Potsdam and Neisse, after which
he took over the Military History Department at Great General Staff
Headquarters in Berlin.
Von Stiehle took part in the Danish War of
1864, serving in Field
Marshal von Wrangel's general staff. In 1866, the newly-ennobled von Stiehle saw action in
the Austro-Prussian
War, and during the Franco- Prussian War of
1870-71, he functioned as Second Army's Chief of General Staff. With
peace at hand, von Stiehle was sent to Great General Staff Headquarters
in Berlin to succeed Kuno Freiherr von der Goltz as Inspector of Jäger
und Schützen. At the rank of Generalleutnant, Gustav von Stiehle was
selected in 1877 to serve in Kaiser Wilhelm I's court as Adjutant
General. He replaced General von Pape as commander of V. Army Corps in
Posen from 1881 to 1886. Thereafter, he served as Chief of the
Engineering and Pioneer Corps and was also Inspector General of
Fortresses.
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