Moritz von Spies

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Moritz Ritter ^[1]von Spies (December 31, 1805 – October 10, 1862) was a Bavarian Major General and twice War Minister under Maximilian II of Bavaria.

Ritter is a designation used as a title of nobility in German-speaking areas. Traditionally it denotes the second-lowest rank within the nobility, standing above "Edler" and below "Freiherr" (Baron). For its historical association with warfare and the landed gentry in the Middle Ages, it can be considered roughly equal to the titles of "Knight" or "Baronet".

The Kingdom of Bavaria was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. The Bavarian Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of the House of Wittelsbach became the first King of Bavaria in 1805 as Maximilian I Joseph. The crown would go on being held by the Wittelsbachs until the kingdom came to an end in 1918. Most of Bavaria's present-day borders were established after 1814 with the Treaty of Paris, in which Bavaria ceded Tyrol and Vorarlberg to the Austrian Empire while receiving Aschaffenburg and Würzburg. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the kingdom became a federal state of the new Empire and was second in size, power, and wealth only to the leading state, the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1918, Bavaria became a republic, and the kingdom was thus succeeded by the current Free State of Bavaria.

Maximilian II of Bavaria king of Bavaria

Maximilian II reigned as King of Bavaria between 1848 and 1864.

Biography

Spies was born in Ansbach. After holding several officer positions in the Bavarian army, also in Greece, which was governed by prince regent Otto, and in the federal war ministry of the Frankfurt Parliament, in 1859 he was promoted Major General in the Generalquartiermeister's staff. In 1860 he was given the command of the genie troops. Spies served as war minister of the Kingdom of Bavaria from June 12 to December 11, 1861 and from June 16 to October 10, 1862 (his death). He died in Munich.^[2]

Ansbach is a city in the German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Nuremberg and 90 miles (140 km) north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the Main river. In 2004, its population was 40,723.

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, also known as Hellas, is a country located in Southern and Southeast Europe, with a population of approximately 11 million as of 2016. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki.

Otto was a Bavarian prince who became the first modern King of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London. He reigned until he was deposed in 1862.

References and notes

↑ Regarding personal names: Ritter is a title, translated approximately as Sir (denoting a Knight ), not a first or middle name. There is no equivalent female form.
↑ Spies, Moritz Ritter von, House of the Bavarian history (HdBG).

Government offices
Preceded by Ludwig von Lüder	Ministers of War (Bavaria) 1861	Succeeded by Hugo Ritter von Bosch (acting)
Preceded by Bernhard von Heß	Ministers of War (Bavaria) 1862	Succeeded by Bernhard von Heß (acting)

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[1] Regarding personal names: Ritter is a title, translated approximately as Sir (denoting a Knight ), not a first or middle name. There is no equivalent female form.

[HdBG-2] Spies, Moritz Ritter von, House of the Bavarian history (HdBG).