Botzheim, Erich Freiherr von, born 18-01-1871 on Schloss Mattsies, Mindelheim, 
the son of Ferdinand Freiherr von Botzheim, entered as a Fahnenjunker the Bayerische Artillerie-Regiment, age 18 on 23-07-1889, three months after Adolf Hitler’s birth, (see Hitler parents) (did you know) (see Adolf) (see William Hitler). He had a sister Louise and one brother Albert. Erich joined the 1st Königlich Bayerische Food Artillery Regiment and in 1890 commanded to the War School in Munich. As his father died in 1892 he sold the estate Schloss Mattsiws to his nephew Walter von Rougemont. He married Henriette Frein von Imhoff in 1898 and promoted to Oberleutnant on 01-01-1899 and on 10-08-1902 as Hauptmann. He is a Commanding Artillery Officer of Fortress Ulm at the beginning of World War I and is in April 1915 appointed as Commander of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Reserve Food Artillery Regiment. From 20-02-1916 he is the commander of the 2nd Reserve Food Artillery Regiment and from 17-04-1917 promoted to Oberstleutnant. During WWI awarded with both the Iron Crosses 
and other decorations. He remained in the new Reichswehr, in the Reich Ministry. In 1920 assigned as Artillery Leader VII in Berlin, 18-12-1920 appointed as Oberst. On 31-01-1922 he is succeeded by Generalmajor der Kavallerie, Kommandeur 12th Armeekorps, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein
the son of Ferdinand Freiherr von Botzheim, entered as a Fahnenjunker the Bayerische Artillerie-Regiment, age 18 on 23-07-1889, three months after Adolf Hitler’s birth, (see Hitler parents) (did you know) (see Adolf) (see William Hitler). He had a sister Louise and one brother Albert. Erich joined the 1st Königlich Bayerische Food Artillery Regiment and in 1890 commanded to the War School in Munich. As his father died in 1892 he sold the estate Schloss Mattsiws to his nephew Walter von Rougemont. He married Henriette Frein von Imhoff in 1898 and promoted to Oberleutnant on 01-01-1899 and on 10-08-1902 as Hauptmann. He is a Commanding Artillery Officer of Fortress Ulm at the beginning of World War I and is in April 1915 appointed as Commander of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Reserve Food Artillery Regiment. From 20-02-1916 he is the commander of the 2nd Reserve Food Artillery Regiment and from 17-04-1917 promoted to Oberstleutnant. During WWI awarded with both the Iron Crosses and other decorations. He remained in the new Reichswehr, in the Reich Ministry. In 1920 assigned as Artillery Leader VII in Berlin, 18-12-1920 appointed as Oberst. On 31-01-1922 he is succeeded by Generalmajor der Kavallerie, Kommandeur 12th Armeekorps, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein
. He himself is the successor of Generalmajor Georg von der Lippe 
with the Artillery Leader III. Von der Lippe died age 77 on 06-12-1956 in Krefeld. Von Botzheim promoted to Generalleutnant on 01-11-1926 and commander of the Army Weapon Office and he retired in 1927, age 56, from active service. He reactivated as Camp Commander IVB in Fortress Königstein, along the river Elbe. The defender of Königstein 
was Otto Lasch. 
Following commander of the POW in Wehrkreis IV from 02-10-1941 to 02-10-1942.Death and burial ground of Botzheim, Erich Freiherr von.
He lands in the Führer Reserve, until 31-08-1942 and is retired again at the old age of 71, from the Army. He lived in Munich and died at the old age of 87, on 28-03-1958. He is buried with his wife Henriette, on the Nordfriedhof in Munich and only steps from the graves of the Troost couple Paul Troost and Gerda
and Generaloberst der Gebirgstruppe, Kommandeur der 3th Gebirgs Division, Eduard Dietl. Close by the graves of Heinrich Hoffmann,
Hitler’s personal photographer and his daughter Henriette von Schirach-Hoffmann and Baldur
, Dr. Gustav von Kahr President of the Bavarian court in 1923 during the Putz and some further the secretary of Hitler, Hitler’s former adjutant SS Standartenführer, Max Wünsche, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Hitler’s driver and founder of the SS, SS Oberführer, Emil Maurice, the General der Flieger, Kommandeur Luftwaffe Hongaria, Kuno Fütterer and Hitler’s last doctor, SS Obersturmbannführer, Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger, the one who gave the suicide pills to Magda Goebbels and helped her as she killed her six children.
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