HOHENLOHE-INGELFINGEN KRAFT, PRINCE OF (1827-1892), soldier and military writer, son of Prince Adolf of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797-1873), prime minister of Prussia from 1856 to 1862, was born at Koschentin in Upper Silesia. He joined the Prussian Guard artillery in 1845. In the bold advance of the Guard corps on the Austrian right wing at Koniggratz in 1866 (see SEVEN WEEKS' WAR), he led the Guard reserve artillery with great success, and after the short war ended he turned his energies to the better tactical training of the Prussian artillery. In 1868 he was made a major-general and assigned to command the Guard artillery brigade. In this capacity he served in the Franco German War, distinguishing himself at Gravelotte and Sedan ; he was in control of the artillery attack on the fortifications of Paris. He retired in 1879 and died near Dresden on Jan. 16, 1892.
See his memoirs, Am meinem Leben (ed. W. von Bremen, 4 vols., 1897-1907; new ed., I vol., 1915) .