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Heinrich Leo von Treitschke
(30.01.1840 - 17.06.1927)
place of birth: Dresden,
Sachsen (Saxony)
Königreich
Sachsen: Generalstabschef,
KG, Generaladjutant SM, General der Infanterie
Royal Saxon general officer Heinrich von
Treitschke served Saxony's Chief of General Staff prior to
the Great War. Von Treitschke began his military
career at the age of 16 as he attended the Cadet Academy in Dresden.
After joining up with the 2nd Jäger
Battalion in Leipzig, von Treitschke spent the next few years involved
with the three major western European campaigns. After fighting in the Danish War of
1864, he opposed the Prussian forces during the Austro-Prussian
War of 1866, seeing action at Gitschin
and Königgrätz. He soon thereafter marched
alongside his former enemy in the Franco-Prussian War of
1870-71.
Upon returning home to Saxony following
victory over the French, von Treitschke was selected to function as
Saxon Crown Prince Albert's personal adjutant. In 1889, he succeeded
Paul Edler von der Planitz as Chief of Staff of the Royal Saxon General
Staff in Dresden. He was later transferred to Leipzig where in 1899 he
became the first commander of the XIX. Army Corps (I. Royal Saxon
Corps). Five years thereafter, Albert's brother King Georg brought von
Treitschke into his court to serve as Adjutant General. He passed away
in 1927 and was interred in his hometown of Dresden. General von
Treitschke's first cousin was the renowned historian who also went by
the name Heinrich von Treitschke.
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