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Franz Georg
von Glasenapp
(18.01.1857 - 15.08.1914)
place of birth: Labes, Pommern
Königreich Preußen: Kdo der
Schutztruppen, Generalmajor
During the pre Great War years, Georg von Glasenapp was the senior commander
of Schutztruppen im Reichs-Kolonialamt (Protection Forces
Command in the Imperial Colonial Office.) He launched in military service in
1874, joining up with Imperial Prussian Infantry Regiment Nr. 9 in Pomerania.
Glasenapp accompanied Freiherr von der Goltz to China in 1884 in order to help
train and modernize the Chinese Army. He returned to Germany in 1900 with a
transfer to the Marine Infantry. He soon thereafter returned to China to fight
in the Boxer Rebellion as part of Graf von Waldersee's
Ostiasiatisches Expeditionskorps.
In January 1904,
Glasenapp deployed as commander of the
Marine-Expeditionkorps to German South West Africa. He saw action during
the Herero Uprising and was wounded during an engagement at Okahawi.
Having later returned to Germany, Glasenapp was appointed in April 1908 as
Inspector of Prussia's Marine Infantry. In that same year, Oberst von Glasenapp
was selected to replace Ferdinand Quade as Kommandeur der Schutztruppen im
Reichskolonialamt, the head of the Empire's colonial military forces. He
remained at this posting in Berlin until April 1914 when the command was taken
over by Ernst von Below. Upon his retirement from active duty on April 6, 1914,
von Glasenapp was awarded with the brevet rank of Generalleutnant
(charakter.)
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