Emil von Albedyll

Emil Heinrich Ludwig von Albedyll
(1.4.1824 - 13.6.1897)
place of birth: Liebenow, Mark Brandenburg

Prussian cavalry general von Albedyll launched his military career during the campaign against Denmark as an ordinance officer during the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848. He additionally served under General von Manteuffel during the Danish War of 1864. The Franco-Prussian War years saw him serving as an aide-de-camp back at Great Headquarters in Berlin.

After the War of 1870-71, von Albedyll spent the next 17 years of peacetime as Chief of the Military Cabinet for Kaiser Wilhelm I. In 1873, he became the Kaiser's General à la suite, and then General Adjutant in 1876. Upon Kaiser Wilhelm I's death, von Albedyll left Berlin for Münster, where he headed up the 7th Army Corps until his retirement from active duty in 1893. He died in Potsdam in June of 1897 and is interred at the Bornstedt Cemetary.