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Hermann Heinrich Theodor
von Tresckow
(01.05.1818 - 20.04.1900)
place of birth: Blankenfelde (Brwice, Pol)
Königreich
Preußen: Chef des
Mil-Kabinetts, Generaladjutant SM, General der
Infanterie
Prussian general Hermann von Tresckow was Kaiser Wilhelm I.'s
Military Cabinet Chief in the years leading up to the Franco-Prussian
War of 1870-71. He entered military service in 1835 when he
joined the elite Kaiser Alexander Regiment in Berlin. He then saw his
first action during the First Schleswig War of 1848
to 1851. A few years thereafter saw him serving as an aide-de-camp to
Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In 1864, von Tresckow was brought
into King Wilhelm I.'s Military Cabinet to head up the personal affairs
section, later replacing General Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel as Chief
of the Military Cabinet.
During the Franco-Prussian War, General von
Tresckow requested a field command and so was given charge of 17.
Infanterie-Division, seeing action in LeMans and Orléans. He
was brought back into the Kaiser's Great Headquarters as a Generaladjutant in
January of 1871, and then soon returned to his previous position as
head of the Kaiser's Military Cabinet. When the Franco-Prussia
hostilities ended, General von Tresckow returned to troop service,
first commanding 19. Infanterie-Division and then serving as commander
of IX. Armee-Korps from 1873 to 1888. He retired from active duty
soon after Kaiser Wilhelm II. came to power. In 1881, he was decorated with Prussia's
highest order of chivalry, the Schwarzer Adler-Orden (Order of the
Black Eagle.) General von Tresckow died in 1900
in Wartenberg in der Neumark.
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