Month: June 2018

 

III.3 War participants

Napoleonic wars

Johann Friederich Huthsteiner was assistant surgeon at the Dutch Brigade,  1st line regiment. This brigade was formed by the British King George in 1799 und disbanded in 1802 and stationed on the channel islands of Wight and Lymington to fight against Napoleon’s troops. With the peace treaty of Amiens it was decided to disband it, likely at Den Helder, Holland.

First Schleswig-Holstein War

Rudolph Huthsteiner a carpenter from Düsseldorf took part at the battle of Hoptrup in Denmark on 7.6.1848. He was a rifleman in the 5th company of the bavarian free corps commanded by Major Baron von der Tann. After the war he emigrated to Australia.

American Civil War

Ernst Huthsteiner

Gustav Huthsteiner was private in the Union army.

Heinrich Huthsteiner was private in the Union army and got wounded.

Julius Huthsteiner  was a Civil War volunteer in 1863 from Hamilton County, Ohio.

Another Julius Huthsteiner attended the American civil war as a druggist, later as hospital steward.

World War I

Louis Huthsteiner took part in WWI

Rudolf Huthsteiner got heavily wounded in bef. 6 May 1915

Wilhelm Huthsteiner from Barmen was heavily wounded bef. 10 June 1916.

World War II

Carl Huthsteiner

MA Major George E. Huthsteiner had been military Attaché to the three Baltic states and Finland from 1939 to 1940. He reported about Soviet military power and the Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939-1940. Huthsteiner was an American military diplomat, US Deputy Military Attorney in Tallinn, and eventually in the US Embassy in Helsinki, who succeeded in obtaining accurate military information from 1941 to 1942 on Germany’s ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the attack on the Soviet Union.

Gustav Huthsteiner 

Kurt Huthsteiner was killed in Focsani, Romania.

Vietnam

Jay Carl Huthsteiner attended the US-Vietnam war.

George Edward Huthsteiner born in Tell city, Indiana, 1891, joined the American army in April 1916 during World War I as a private at the Headquarters Company, Second Field Artillery, Ninth Cavalry. 

Major George E. Huthsteiner had been military Attaché to the three Baltic states and Finland from January 16th, 1939, until 1942. He reported about Soviet military power and the Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939-1940. Huthsteiner was an American military diplomat, US Deputy Military Attorney in Tallinn, and eventually in the US Embassy in Helsinki, who succeeded in obtaining accurate military information from 1941 to 1942 on Germany’s ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the attack on the Soviet Union.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George E. Huthsteiner was awarded several medals abroad: the Kotkaristi Teenetemärk (III) – Order of the Cross of the Eagle in 1940 (3rd class, Estonia ), the Officer Cross of The Order of The White Cross (Finland) and the Order of the Three Stars (2nd class, Latvia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the war Huthsteiner was head of the equitation department cavalry school, Fort Riley, Kansas.

George E. Huthsteiner was promoted First Lieutenant from June, 5th, 1917 and Captain from July, 1st 1920. On Sept., 22nd, 1934 he became Major, on July, 1st, January, 1940, he was promoted Lieutenant Colonel and later, on December 24, 1941, colonel, the highest rank he achieved in American regular army. He was retired on Sept., 30th, 1943 due to disability in line of duty and died in Los Angeles county 1967.

III.4 Emigrants

Out of the Westphalian Hutsteiner families several people emigrated.

Some families emigrated to the US. 

One guy emigrated to the UK, another individuum followed the gold rush to Australia.

Another again emigrated to France following Napoleon’s army. 

 

What a surprise when I found that one Young guy who emigrated to Dunolly, Victoria, Australia, in the vicinity of Melbourne.

Rudolph Huthsteiner, a young guy of the Westphalian families from the City Düsseldorf.

During his first time he worked as a miner, likely as a gold miner, later as a cabinet maker. He was married two times but still no known descendants.

One member of the Hessen-Nassau family settled far, far away:   Rudolph Huthsteiner.

Rudolph became the most travelled guy in this genealogy – at least for the time around 1870. At this time travelling to Australia took 3-4 weeks at least. On the Sea !

Likely he left Germany (Prussia) due to suppression of free ideas, as already his brother Wilhelm was demoted due to liberal acting as censor and police commissioner in Barmen. Probably he also had contact to Friedrich Engels as well as his brother.

In Australia obviously he did not so well as supposed before. Instead ‘German Charley’, Rudolph’s local nickname, tried to commit suicide.

On May, 26th 1883 local newspapers in Alexander and Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, reported following story:

“On Thursday morning (says the Dunolly Express) it was reported that a man named Rudolph Huthstein, better known as German Charley, had attempted suicide by taking strychnine, a fact which proved too true. The unfortunate fellow had been on the previous evening drinking, and quarrelled with a man named Wilson over a dishonoured cheque. After leaving him he went home, and took the poison about 11 o’clock, but it did not affect him till between 1 and 2 o’clock a.m. When the twitching in his limbs commenced, Charley began to feel sorry for what he had done, and, as best he could, crawled to a camp oven in which was some fat — this he ate, and drunk the contents of a large bottle of linseed oil. The effect of the poison was by this means blunted, and at the look-up where he had been removed by the police, he appeared to be progressing favourably, although weak, as a consequence of the self-administered doses. “

Finally, he became a lucky guy by staying alive.