You are bidding on one complete handwritten, signed letter dit Prussian captain in the general staff Adolf von Oven (1855-1937), later General of the Infantry.
DatedStrasbourg (Alsace), 4. May 1890.
Condolence letter to the death of the first President of the ReichsbankHermann von Dechend (1814-1890).
Addressed to his widow Adelgunde von Dechend, b. Wilke (1823-1915).
Excerpts: "Your Excellency, I have the honor to express my deepest and heartfelt condolences to me and my wife for the severe loss that has so suddenly affected you and your entire household. [...] Since we both had the privilege of being able to spend many a wonderful hour in your house, we were able to personally get to know the excellent qualities of your now deceased husband's heart and appreciate his great friendliness and winning freshness. We can therefore also to some extent appreciate the irreplaceable loss and understand the pain that has affected your entire house. [...] We ask your Excellency to express our deepest sympathy to the other family members and conclude with excellent respect, painfully moved, as your Excellency always most devoted to. Oven, Captain of the General Staff."
Scope: Sheet written on both sides (26.8 x 20.8 cm); without envelope.
Enclosed Funeral notice (27 x 21.2 cm).
Condition:Letter folded (the obituary notice unfolded). Paper browned, slightly stained and wrinkled. bPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Althaus 2023-3 Documents 2 Autograph Autograph Militaria Adel
About Adolf von Oven and Hermann von Dechend (source: wikipedia):
Karl Adolf von Oven (*30. May 1855 in Nikolskowo; † 6. February 1937 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf) was a Prussian infantry general.
Life
Origin: He was the son of District Administrator Karl von Oven (1824–1907) and his wife Emma Karoline Adolfine, née Countess von Westarp.
Military career: After being raised in his parents' home and in the cadet corps, Oven joined the military on 19. April 1873 as a second lieutenant in the 7th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 96 of the Prussian Army entered Gera. From the 16th November 1875 to 19. In February 1878 he served as adjutant of the 1st Battalion and was then promoted to regimental adjutant. After Oven on the 15th After being promoted to first lieutenant in August 1882, he was given command from 1. October 1182 to 21. July 1885 to the War Academy. In the meantime Oven was available on the 15th. February 1885 to Mörchingen in the infantry regiment “Graf Barfuß” (4. Westphalian) No. 17 offset. From there he was transferred on the 1st. In May 1886 he was assigned to the General Staff and was transferred to the General Staff at the same time as he was promoted to captain. Nine months later he was transferred to the General Staff of the III. Army Corps. Oven was briefly suspended from 2. until 22. In April 1889 he was transferred to the General Staff before moving to Strasbourg to the General Staff of the 31st Division. Division came. From 27. January 1891 to 28. In March 1892, Oven resigned from military service and acted as a company commander in the “Herwarth von Bittenfeld” infantry regiment (1. Westphalian) No. 13 in Münster. Oven then became first general staff officer on the staff of the 22nd. Division in Kassel and in this position on the 31st. Promoted to major in May 1892. On the 17th In October 1893, Oven was again transferred to the General Staff, but from there he was directly assigned to the General Staff of the Fifth Army Inspectorate. He was here until the 21st. March 1897 and then took over as commander of the II. Battalion of the 3rd Guard Regiment on foot. Oven surrendered the battalion on the 26th. January 1899, was promoted to lieutenant colonel and at the same time entrusted with the management of business as department head in the General Staff. Until his appointment as department head on December 22nd. In May 1900, Oven was simultaneously working as a teacher at the War Academy. Already on the 9th In July 1900 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the VIII. Army Corps under the commanding General, Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich of Baden. As a colonel (since 18. April 1901) Oven was killed on April 18th. August 1902 Commander of the grenadier regiment “Prince Carl of Prussia” stationed in Frankfurt (Oder) (2. Brandenburg) No. 12. Oven gave up this command after more than two years and was given command of the 16th in mid-October 1904. Infantry brigade in Torgau commissioned. At the same time as the transport to Major General on the 27th In January 1905 he became brigade commander. At 19. In December 1907 he was transferred to Magdeburg, where he initially took charge of the 7th. Division commissioned and his promotion to lieutenant general on the 27th. He was appointed division commander in January 1908. His last peace service position was from 5. November 1911 that of the military governor of the strategically important fortress of Metz. As such, Oven was arrested on the 13th. Promoted to general of infantry in September 1912. When Oven reached his seniority limit, he was appointed on March 3rd. He was relieved of his post in February 1914, à la suite of the Grenadier Regiment “Prince Carl of Prussia” (2. Brandenburg) No. 12 and put up for discussion.
World War I: At the beginning of World War I, Oven was reactivated in accordance with his mobilization regulations and resumed the post of governor of Metz. As such, he took part in the border battles from there and on the 20th. until 21. August 1914 at the Battle of Lorraine on the right wing of the 6th Army. In the subsequent Battle of Longwy he commanded the corps named after him, which was made up of the main reserve of the Metz Fortress and the 5th. Landwehr Division existed and was on the left wing of the 5th. Army intervened in the fighting. Due to his good leadership, Oven was then additionally commissioned to lead the V Army Corps as a representative of the commanding general Hermann von Strantz. With the corps he was deployed between the Meuse and the Moselle, fought at Combres and Les Eparges and then advanced on Verdun. Due to differences of opinion with his superior general, Oven was resigned on the 12th. He was relieved of his post in May 1915, but retained his position as governor of Metz.
While maintaining this position, on the 7th In May 1917 he was appointed leader of the newly formed Metz group. This consisted of various divisions and independent brigades and was pushed into the front as a link on both sides of the Moselle. Here she took part in the fighting that took place there. In recognition of his war services, Wilhelm II awarded him. on the 22nd September 1918 the Order of Pour le Mérite. At the same time, his mobilization provision was repealed and Oven finally retired.
Family
Adolf von Oven was married to Alice Edle von Oetinger (1866–1942). Both were buried in the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin. The grave has been preserved.
Hermann Friedrich Alexander Dechend, from Dechend from 1865 (*2. April 1814 in Marienwerder, West Prussia; † 30. April 1890 in Berlin) was a German lawyer in the Prussian financial administration. He was the first president of the Reichsbank and sat on the Prussian State Council.
Life: Dechend was the son of the lawyer Theodor Dechend in Marienwerder. He married Adelgunde Wilke (* 20. November 1823 in Berlin; † 1915). His daughter Susanne (1859–1929) married Hugo von Kathen, who later became General of the Infantry, in Berlin in 1884.
Dechend attended the Marienwerder high school and graduated on the 17th. October 1834 the Abitur exam. He studied law and camera studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. In 1835 he became a member, later an honorary member, of the Borussia Bonn Corps. After the exams, he first went to the regional and city courts, then to the higher regional court in Marienwerder. He moved to Prussia's internal administration and was a government trainee from 1837. He became a government assessor in 1841 and completed technical and commercial training in Berlin in 1844/45. In the province of Westphalia he worked for the government in Arnsberg in 1846 and in Münster in 1847. In 1848 he came to the main bank, but soon afterwards he was put in charge of the Prussian Loan Fund. In 1849 he became a government councilor in the Ministry of Commerce. From 1851 onwards he was a member of the main bank management board of the Prussian Bank. In 1853 he became Privy Chief Financial Officer. In 1863 he was promoted to vice president and finally to president of the Prussian Bank in 1864. He held the office of president until 1875. After the founding of the German Empire, Dechend was the first president of the newly founded German Reichsbank from 1876 to 1890, which took over the organization of the Prussian Bank to create a central bank.
The Prussian Bank essentially owed its development from a simple central bank to one of Europe's leading central banks to Dechend. Herrmann von Dechend was therefore significantly involved in creating the organizational requirements for the Reichsbank, which later emerged from the Prussian Bank. The banknotes of the Preußische Bank from 1867 to 1874 and the German Reichsbanknotes from 1876 to 1884 bear Dechend's signature.
From 1867 to 1869, Dechend was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives as a member of the Reich and Free Conservative Party (RFKP), and from 1872 until his death (1890) he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. In 1884 he became a member of the State Council. Since 1877 he was the Imperial Privy Councilor. Because of his achievements, Dechend was appointed on the 12th. Raised to the Prussian nobility in June 1865.
Hermann von Dechend died in Berlin in 1890 at the age of 76 and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Church in front of the Halle Gate. The grave has not been preserved.