About Bernhard von Poten
Lived 1828 – 1909 (aged 81). Bernhard von Poten was a German military officer, non-fiction writer, writer and weapon historian.
Karl Georg Heinrich Bernhard von Poten (8 August 1828 – 22 November 1909), known as Bernhard von Poten, was a royal Prussian colonel best known for his military writing.
Family and life Poten was born in Celle on 8 August 1828, into a bourgeois family of officers from the Kingdom of Hanover. His parents were the Hannoversche Major Georg Poten (1799–1882) and Juliane Dorothea Kannengießer (1804–1841). His uncle Friedrich Poten (1779–1845), Hanoverian lieutenant colonel, was made hereditary baron in 1827 by Grand Duke Ludwig I of Baden. His nephew continued the baronial lineage.
On 17 September 1861, Poten married Anna Sophie Elisabeth Behncke (1837–1905) in Celle. They had a son Heinrich Georg Wilhelm Alexander von Poten Kommandobuch zum ExerzirReglement für die Kavallerie vom 10. April 1886, Geschichte des Militär-erziehungs- und Bildungswesens in Sachsen, Poten hat zudem zahlreiche Einzelartikel in der Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie (ADB) verfasst, meist zu Offizieren.
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Who was Bernhard von Poten?
prussian colonel
When was Bernhard von Poten born?
Bernhard von Poten was born on 8 August 1828 in Celle.
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Bernhard von Poten died on 22 November 1909 in Berlin.
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Bernhard von Poten was a military officer, non-fiction writer, writer and weapon historian.
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Bernhard von Poten was German.
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