Maximilian von Speidel

Maximilian Freiherr von Speidel
Born(1856-09-13)13 September 1856
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation
Died24 February 1943(1943-02-24) (aged 86)
Munich, German Reich
Allegiance Kingdom of Bavaria
German Empire
Branch
 Bavarian Army
 Imperial German Army
Service years
1874–1919
Rank
General der Kavallerie
Conflicts
World War I
AwardsIron Cross
Red Eagle Order
Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown
Relations∞ 1884 Anna Gräfin von Arco auf Valley
Other workRoyal Bavarian Kammerjunker (1886), as of 1891 Kämmerer (Chamberlain)

Maximilian August Edmund Albert Freiherr[a] von Speidel (13 September 1856 – 24 February 1943) was a Bavarian general and State Council at the Bavarian Ministry of War.

Life

Von Speidel was born in Munich. His father, Edmund Freiherr von Speidel (1816–1887), was a lieutenant general and Marshal of the Court to Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. On 2 August 1874, he was transferred from the Pagerie to the Royal Bavarian 4th Chevau-léger Regiment "King" in Augsburg.

In 1888, acting as travel marshal, von Speidel (whom she referred to in her writings with high regard as "her cavalier") accompanied Therese Princess of Bavaria on her trip to Brazil. He would become adjutant, company, regimental, brigade and finally divisional commander. He retired on 15 December 1911 and was placed at disposal.

On 2 August 1914, he was reactivated for World War I. In the rank of a General der Kavallerie,[1] von Speidel was commander of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division from 30 October to 15 November 1914 (the day he was wounded), the unit in which Hitler served during World War I.[2]

In the "Hertling Cabinet" he was acting as War Minister for a short time in 1916,[3] before he became State Council from 26 November 1915[4] to 21 January 1919.[5]

Upon agreement with Kurt Eisner and Albert Roßhaupter, on 10 November 1918 after the revolution, he and Otto von Dandl went to Schloss Wildenwart in the district of Rosenheim, where Von Speidel planned to persuade King Ludwig III to issue a declaration in which he would release the army officers of their oath, but Ludwig had already left Schloss Wildenwart. Two days later, Von Dandl could convince the king of the release of the officers of their oath.[6]

Family

Marriage

On 16 April 1884 in Munich, 2nd Lieutenant Freiherr von Speidel married his fiancée Anna Maria Karolina Maximiliane Erwine Gräfin von Arco auf Valley (1864–1922).[7]

They would have three sons and one daughter.[8] One son, a recipient of the Military Order of Max Joseph, fell in the First World War as a 1st lieutenant, a second, also a 1st lieutenant, died in 1920 from the long-term effects of his wounds, and a third son was a colonel in the Wehrmacht.[9]

Promotions

  • 2 August 1874 Portepee-Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)
  • 27 November 1876 Second-Lieutenant (2nd Lieutenant)
  • 4 December 1886 Premier-Lieutenant (1st Lieutenant)
  • 19 June 1891 Rittmeister
  • 17 March 1897 Major
  • 4 March 1901 Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel)
  • 3 April 1903 Oberst (Colonel)
  • 28 October 1905 Generalmajor (Major General)
    • 8 December 1907 appointed Staatsrat im ordentlichen Dienst (State Councillor) and delegated with the duties of the Minister of War who had fallen ill
  • 4 December 1909 Generalleutnant (Lieutenant General)
    • likewise awarded the title "Excellence"
  • 15 December 1911 Charakter als General der Kavallerie (Honorary General of the Cavalry) and placed at disposal of the army (zur Disposition gestellt)
    • 2 August 1914 reactivated
  • 16 December 1914 General der Kavallerie (active General of the Cavalry with Patent)
    • 26 November 1915 again appointed Staatsrat im ordentlichen Dienst (State Councillor in active service with the Bavarian War Ministry[10] and member of Bavarian Royal Advisory Council)

Awards and decorations

Notes

  1. ↑ Regarding personal names: Freiherr was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Baron. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin.

References

  1. ↑ former military rank below Colonel General
  2. ↑ "Otto von Below". home.comcast.net. Archived from the original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  3. ↑ Bavaria - war ministers Archived October 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Verordnungsblatt des Königlich-Bayerischen Kriegsministeriums, No. 60, 30 November 1915, p. 2329
  5. ↑ Staatsministerium für militärische Angelegenheiten (German), Historisches Lexikon Bayerns (Bavarian historical lexikon).
  6. ↑ Florian Sepp: Erster vergeblicher Versuch am 10. November 1918 (German), Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, p. 1.
  7. ↑ Anna Maria Karolina Maximiliane Erwine, Gräfin von Arco auf Valley
  8. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, 1913, p. 913
  9. ↑ Freiherr von Speidel, Hans Edmund Maria Karl Joseph
  10. ↑ After the November Putsch, the Bavarian Ministry of War was renamed the (State) Ministry for Military Affairs.
  11. ↑ Brazil - The Imperial Order of the Rose.
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