Maximilian Eduard August Hannibal Kunz Sigismund Vogel von Fal(c)kenstein (29 April 1839 – 7 December 1917) was a

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

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der Infanterie'' and

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. Falckenstein was born in

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as the son of the Prussian general

Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein Eduard Ernst Friedrich Hannibal Vogel von Fal(c)kenstein (5 January 1797 – 6 April 1885) was a Prussian ''General der Infanterie''. Biography Vogel von Falckenstein was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) in Silesia, the son of Hannibal Vog ...

and Luise Gärtner. He married Marie Freiin von Stoltzenberg (15 September 1842 – 2 October 1915) in

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on 3 September 1862. Falckenstein was lord of the estate Gut Dolzig, which encompassed 10 square kilometres. He entered the

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in 1855, becoming a captain of the

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in 1871 and an instructor at the

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in 1881. He was promoted to ''

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'' in 1888 and named the commander of the 2. Garde-Infanterie-Brigade. Falckenstein became director of the General War Department within the Ministry of War in 1889. A year later, he was promoted to ''

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'' and appointed to serve as the commander of the

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. In 1896, Falckenstein was promoted to ''

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'', becoming the commanding general of the VIII. Armeekorps in

, as well as head of the Engineer and Pioneer Corps. He died at his estate of Dolzig.

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