August von Horn

August Wilhelm von Horn
(18.02.1800 - 19.04.1886)
place of birth: Loschen, Preußisch Eylau (Bagrationowsk, RU)

General August von Horn served in the Prussian Army beginning in 1816. Von Horn was wed to Antoinette Freiin d'Orville von Löwenklau. Of his twelve children, two of them (Karl August and Erich Axel Rudolf) served as generals in the Prussian Army. August von Horn rose to the rank of Generalleutnant Königgrätz by 1862, commanding troops during the Danish War of 1864 and the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. As Prussian went to war with France in 1870, with four of General von Horn's sons seeing action there, von Horn himself served as Gustav von Alvensleben's deputy commander at Fourth Corps headquarters in Magdeburg.