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Hans Lothar von Schweinitz
(30.12.1822 - 23.06.1901)
place of birth: Gut Klein Kirchen, Lüben
Königreich
Preußen: Botschafter, Generaladjutant SM, General der Infanterie
General Hans von Schweinitz served as an Imperial German diplomat in
Austria and Russia prior to the Great War. Schweinitz entered military duty in
1840 with the 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß in Potsdam. He was selected a personal
adjutant to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (Kaiser Friedrich III.) in 1857 and
following promotion to Major, was dispatched in 1860 as Military Attaché in
Vienna. He was engaged in his first military action during the Danish War of
1864 (Deutsch-Dänischer Krieg).
Von Schweinitz spent a year
in St. Petersburg as Prussia's military plenipotentiary
(Militärbevollmächtigter) and returned home to serve in Prussian Great
Headquarters during the
Austro-Prussian War of 1866 (Deutscher Krieg). Following the
war, he was sent back to St. Petersburg as military plenipotentiary. In October
1869, von Schweinitz was brevetted to Generalmajor and simultaneously named as
General à la suite of Kaiser Wilhelm I. He was transferred to Vienna in
December 1869 as diplomatic envoy and with the mission of preventing closer ties
between Austria and France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71
(Deutsch-Französischer Krieg).
Following the war, he
was officially designated as Imperial Germany's Ambassador to Austria. He was
transferred to St. Petersburg in January 1876 and promoted to General-Lieutenant
on 22.03.1877 (Patent.) He was relieved of his posting in December 1892
and soon thereafter retired from active duty. General von Schweinitz's son
Wilhelm served during World War One as military attaché in Rome and the Hague.
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