Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler

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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.

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 wars of 1864 and 1866 and in the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71. From 1879 he headed the military history department of the general staff, and from 1890-1903 he was General of the Cavalry and head of the 16th Army Corps in Metz. In 1905 he received the rank of a Generalfeldmarschall. From 1903 he was member of the Prussian Herrenhaus 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.

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Regarding personal names: Graf is a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin.