Joseph Maximilian Fridolin Ritter von Maillinger (4 October 1820 – 6 October 1901) was a
Bavaria
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n
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and
War Minister
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under
Ludwig II of Bavaria
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.
Biography
Von Maillinger was born in
Passau. After passing his company officer career, at last in the
Generalquartiermeister staff in
Munich
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, he was transferred to the General Command in Munich as
major of the general staff. The first time, he served for the war ministry, he was ordered by
Von Lüder. In 1863 he became head of department at the war ministry. Also he was
adjutant of
Eduard von Lutz, as well as representative of him at the
Landtag
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. In 1865 he was advanced to
Oberstleutnant
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, in 1866 he
Oberst
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. Thenceforward he was commander of the 7th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment and deputy of Von Lutz. In 1869 he became
major general
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and commander of the 8th Royal Bavarian Infantry Brigade. One year after that, he was advanced to
lieutenant general
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, and led the
2nd Royal Bavarian Division during the campaigns of the
Franco-Prussian War, which stood in France as part of the Bavarian occupation army until 1873. After he returned to Bavaria, he became commander of the
II Royal Bavarian Corps
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As part of the 1868 army reform, th ...
. During the period, when he served as war minister, he was advandced to General der Infanterie in 1877 and got the main ownership of the 9th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment "Wrede" The psychiatrist and neurologist Prof. Dr. Dr. Dres. h.c.
Heinz Häfner says, Maillinger's withdrawal from his ministry post was caused by Ludwig II's reputed sexual abuse of young cavalrists (
chevau-légers). Ritter von Maillinger became a member of the
Reichsrat in 1888. He died in
Bad Aibling
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History
Bad Aibling and its surrounding ...
.
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House of the Bavarian history (HdBG). The
Maillingerstraße in Munich is named in honor of him.
Awards
He received the following honours:
Hof- und - Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern
' (1879), "Kriegsministerium"
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* :
** Knight of St. Hubert
** Knight of the Military Order of Max Joseph
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, ''1870''
** Knight of Merit of the Bavarian Crown
** Knight of the Merit Order of St. Michael, 1st Class
** Commander of the Military Merit Order
* : Knight of the Iron Crown, 3rd Class
* Kingdom of Prussia
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:
** Grand Cross of the Red Eagle
** Pour le Mérite
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(military), ''19 January 1873''
** Iron Cross
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, 1st Class
* : Grand Cross of the Albert Order
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References and notes
External links
Maillinger, Joseph Maximilian Fridolin, Ritter von
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
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Joseph Meyer (1796–1856), who had founded the publishing house in 1826, intended t ...
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1820 births
1901 deaths
People from Passau
Bavarian Ministers of War
Bavarian generals
People from the Kingdom of Bavaria
Members of the Bavarian Reichsrat
Knights of the Military Order of Max Joseph
Recipients of the Military Merit Order (Bavaria)
Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class)
Recipients of the Iron Cross, 1st class