GM Alexander Petersen (1860-1925)

[Deutschritter]

Gentlemen, maybe you could help completing the dates and (WWI) decorations for Alexander "Alex" Hartwig Richard Petersen?

 

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17 April 1880 Secondelieutenant (2nd Lieutenant) with the 2. Badisches Grenadier-Regiment „Kaiser Wilhelm I.“ Nr. 110

16 April 1889 Premierlieutenant (1st Lieutenant)

27 January 1894 Hauptmann (Captain)

18 November 1905 Major

1 October 1912 Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel)

19 August 1914 Oberst z. D. (Colonel at disposal)

1918/19 Generalmajor a. D. (Major General, retired)

 

Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion (Orden vom Zähringer Löwen), Knight's Cross 2nd Class with Oak Leaves (BZL3bmE/BZ3bmE) on 13 September 1893

Prussian Centenary Medal 1897 (Zentenarmedaille)

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

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

Prussian Order of the Crown (Kronenorden), 3rd Class (KO3)

 

On 22 November 1887 in Heidelberg (Grand Duchy of Baden), 2nd Lieutenant Petersen married his fiancée Marie Theresia Küttner (b. 1868). They would have two sons:

 

Erich Alexander Karl (1889–1963), German officer, finally General der Flieger in WWII

Curt (1890–1916) German cavalry officer

... Curt was born on 5 September 1890 and served with the 2. Rheinisches Husaren-Regiment Nr. 9. He was severely wounded on 18 November 1916 near Schulerau (Poiana Brașov) in Romania and died (ᛣ⚔) three days later on 21 November 1916 in the military hospital in Târgu Jiu on the banks of the river Jiu. His body was brought to Hildesheim and buried there in the fallen section of the northern cemetery.

 

 

Edited December 29, 2024 by Deutschritter