char. Generalleutnant Hermann von Rantzau (1815-1891)

[Deutschritter]

Gentlemen, here is what I have for Hermann Karl Dietrich von Rantzau, any additions or corrections welcome:

 

5 August 1833 Seconde-Lieutenant (2nd Lieutenant)

13 April 1847 Premier-Lieutenant (1st Lieutenant)

22 June 1852 Rittmeister (Captain)

15 June 1858 Charakter als Major (Honorary Major)

... 18 January 1859 received Patent as Major

17 March 1863 Oberst-Lieutenant (Lieutenant Colonel)

8 June 1866 Oberst (Colonel)

26 July 1870 General-Major (Major General)

26 November 1887 Charakter als Generalleutnant z. D. (Honorary Lieutenant General at disposal)

 

Military Commemorative Medal of 1849 (Baden)

Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion (Orden vom Zähringer Löwen), Knight's Cross (GBZL3/BZL3)

... later classified as Knight's Cross I. Class with Oak Leaves (BZL3a/BZ3a)

Red Eagle Order (Roter Adlerorden), 4th Class with Swords (PRAO4⚔/PrA4⚔)

Prussian Long Service Cross for 25 years (Königlich Preußisches Dienstauszeichnungskreuz; DA)

Imperial Russian Sankt-Stanislaus-Orden, II. Class (RSt2)

Order of the White Falcon (Hausorden vom Weißen Falken), Knight's Cross 1st Class (GSF3a)

Red Eagle Order, 3rd Class with the Bow (Schleife) and Swords on Ring

War Commemorative Medal of 1864 (Kriegs-Denkmünze für 1864; KD64)

Knight of Honour (Ehrenritter) of the Johanniter-Orden (PStJO)

Prussian Order of the Crown (Preußischer Kronenorden), 3rd Class with Swords

Princely Schaumburg Lippe Military Merit Medal (SLVM/SLMV)

Commemorative Cross for the Campaign of 1866 (Erinnerungs-Kreuz für den Feldzug von 1866)

Order of Saint Michael (Bavaria), Commander (BStMV2b/BM2b)

Iron Cross (1870), 2nd Class

Grand Ducal Hessian Military Merit Cross for 1870/71 (GHMV)

War Commemorative Medal of 1870–1871 (Kaiserliche Kriegsdenkmünze 1870/71; KD70/71)

Grand Ducal Hessian Ludwig (Ludewig) Order, Commander's Cross 1st Class (GHL2a/HL2a) on 14 December 1871

Red Eagle Order, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves and Swords on Ring on 15 August 1872

Knight of Justice (Rechtsritter) of the Johanniter-Orden in 1878

 

 

Edited October 4 by Deutschritter

[VtwinVince]

Any relation to the Rantzau that Goering married?

[Deutschritter]

15 hours ago, VtwinVince said:

Any relation to the Rantzau that Goering married?

Hermann Göring? Sorry, but I do not know of a Rantzau he married. 

[VtwinVince]

I thought he married a Karin von Rantzau? Sorry, her name was von Kantzow, need to get my eyeglass prescription updated!

Edited October 5 by VtwinVince

[Deutschritter]

21 minutes ago, VtwinVince said:

I thought he married a Karin von Rantzau? Sorry, her name was von Kantzow, need to get my eyeglass prescription updated!

No problem ... I know how you feel. 🙂 Yes, his first wife was Carin Axelina Hulda, divorced Freifrau von Kantzow, née Freiin von Fock, his second of course the well-known Emma Johanna Henny „Emmy“ Sonnemann.