Gottlieb Ferdinand Albert Alexis Graf von Haeseler (January 19, 1836 – October 25, 1919) was a German military officer of the Imperial Wilhelmine period, with final rank of "Generalfeldmarschall".
Biography.
Haeseler was born in Potsdam to August Alexis Eduard Haeseler and Albertine von Schönermark. He entered the Prussian army as Lieutenant in 1853 and became aide-de-camp of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia in 1860. He served in the Danish-Prussian War (1864), the Austro-Prussian War (1866), and the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). From 1879 he headed the military history department of the general staff, and from 1890 to 1903 he was General of the Cavalry and head of the XVI Army Corps in Metz. In 1905 he received the rank of a "Generalfeldmarschall". From 1903 he was member of the Prussian House of Lords and worked for the development of the vocational school system. Haeseler died in Harnekop.
Among other things, the barracks of the paratrooper battalion No. 261 in Lebach/Saar are named after Haeseler.
Notes.
Regarding personal names: was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as "Count". Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (, , etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is .
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