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Eduard
Ernst Friedrich Hannibal Vogel von Falckenstein
(06.01.1797 - 06.04.1885)
place of birth: Breslau,
Niederschlesien (Wrocław, Lower Silesia)
Königreich
Preußen: KG,
General der Infanterie
General Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein served as a Prussian officer during
the 19th century. He began his military career in 1813. Later, as an Oberst, Vogel worked
as Graf von Wrangel's chief of staff from
1850 to 1855 at III. Armee-Korps
headquarters in Berlin. During the Danish War of 1864
(Deutsch-Dänischer Krieg), when he was awarded the Pour le Mérite medal, General-Lieutenant Vogel von Falckenstein served as Chief of
Staff of the combined Prussian-Austro-Hungarian military forces and was
also the commander of an army corps supporting Field Marshal von
Wrangel.
General Vogel von Falckenstein then was commanding general of
Prussia's Army of the Main during the Austro-Prussian
War of 1866 (Deutscher Krieg). Although he had left the military service in
1868, Vogel von Falckenstein functioned as Governor General of the
German Coastland, during the Franco-Prussian War of
1870-71 (Deutsch-Französischer Krieg), residing in Hannover. In this capacity, he organized coastal
defenses and created an all volunteer maritime patrol. In 1871, he was decorated
with Prussia's highest order of chivalry, the Schwarzer Adler-Orden
(Order of the Black Eagle.) He again retired
from his military duties in 1873 and passed away in 1885 at his Dolzig
estate located in Lausitz. His eldest son Maximilian likewise served as
a General der Infanterie.
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