Chief of the General Staff of the Army,prior to 1878 known as Quartermaster General and in 1882 he became Lieutenant General and division commander, before he served as war minister from 1 May 1885 to 9 May 1890.Heinleth, Adolf von, House of the Bavarian history (HdBG). Ritter von Heinleth withdrew for health reasons.Heinleth, Adolf, Ritter von (German), Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon. He died in Munich, where he was buried in the Old Southern Cemetery.
